Tier 3 Company Blog

Tier 3 Expands Enterprise Cloud Platform with Multi-Framework Web Fabric and Data Fabric

New Platform and Database Services Join Tier 3 Enterprise Infrastructure Service, Setting New Bar for Comprehensive Cloud Platforms BELLEVUE, Wash. — May 8, 2012 ― Tier 3, Inc., the enterprise cloud platform company, today announced the next release of the Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform, now with the industry’s most comprehensive set of enterprise-grade cloud [...]

Why Operations Folks Should Code

By Jared Wray, founder and CTO. Find Jared on Twitter. Since the onset of Cloud Computing we’ve seen many changes in how we consume IT services. In her recent article “IT operations in the age of cloud: Brace yourself for change,” Alex Barrett outlines one of the most dramatic shifts in IT: operations teams. At [...]

Equinix and Tier 3 Partner to Accelerate Cloud Adoption in Enterprise

Companies team to deliver enterprise-class hybrid cloud solutions Redwood City, Calif. and Bellevue, Wash. — March 27, 2012 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, and Tier 3, the enterprise cloud platform provider, today announced a partnership to create an enterprise-ready gateway to the cloud by offering Tier 3’s Enterprise [...]

Building Servers with the Tier 3 API

By Troy Schneringer, Senior Developer. Find Troy on Twitter. Any service provider worth its salt has to have an API. It’s one of the first questions we ask our providers and understandably one we get asked a lot as well. With our latest release we also updated our API, so I figured what better way [...]

Platform Update Enables Easier Management, Monitoring, and Reporting

Tier 3 builds on an agile development methodology and we update our platform about once every six weeks, but this month’s release is a doozy! Over the last 48 hours we’ve released a major platform update that includes: Group server management tools Enhanced reporting Self-provisioning monitoring Scheduled tasks for all types of servers and groups [...]

When Provisioning Breaks, Blueprints Shine

By Jared Wray, founder and CTO. Find Jared on Twitter. There is nothing worse than getting that email or error warning you that provisioning has failed. And inevitably this happens at the very last stages of getting an environment automated. You ask yourself: What happened? Why did it fail? And then: Did I build my [...]

Building a Federated Cloud: Tier 3’s Cloud Software as a Service Vision

By Adam Wray, President and CEO. Find Adam on Twitter. Today we announced a significant shift in Tier 3’s business model: in addition to offering our cloud “as a service” directly to enterprise customers around the globe, we are now offering our cloud software platform to service providers to enable them to stand up their [...]

Tier 3 Creates Federated Cloud, Welcomes CFN Services as Federated Cloud Partner

First-of-a-Kind Federation Offers New Cloud Business Models to Providers Serving the Enterprise Market BELLEVUE, Wash. — February 21, 2012 ― Tier 3, Inc. today made its Enterprise Cloud Platform (ECP) – enterprise-grade, virtual private cloud software – available to the service provider market, creating the Tier 3 Federated Cloud. CFN Services, a leading provider of [...]

Tier 3 Announces Compliance with SSAE 16 Type II Standards

New Auditing Standards Provide Greater Independent Assurance of Controls and Processes BELLEVUE, WA – February 20, 2012 – Tier 3, the enterprise cloud platform provider, announced today that it has successfully completed the SSAE 16 Type II audit, ensuring that the company’s controls, processes and procedures conform to industry standards and best practices. The review [...]

Get Your vFabric On with Blueprints from Tier 3

By Jared Wray, founder and CTO. Find Jared on Twitter. Today Tier 3 announced access to a Starter Kit Blueprint for VMware vFabric on the Tier 3 Public Cloud. We know that most of you are busy enough with your job, so setting aside time to try the latest technologies is often hard to juggle. [...]