# UnitedLayer®

> UnitedLayer is a privately held infrastructure provider combining colocation, managed private cloud, multicloud connectivity, disaster recovery, and cloud-management software. Its enterprise and public-sector offering connects existing hardware with private and public clouds, with newer products for private AI and sovereign infrastructure.

- **Founded:** 2001
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, United States
- **Founders:** Arman Khalili (Co-founder and former CEO), Otto Grajeda (Co-founder; director of facilities at the 2010 acquisition)
- **Products:** United Private Cloud®, Hybrid Colo as a Service, UnitedConnect®, UnitedSecure, Disaster Recovery as a Service
- **Notable:** Named a Leader in managed hosting in the U.S. ISG Provider Lens 2025 Private/Hybrid Cloud - Data Center Services report; ISG independently lists UnitedLayer among quadrant leaders., UnitedLayer says the 2025 managed-hosting recognition was its third consecutive year., The current leadership page describes coverage across 25+ core and 175+ edge data centers; these are company-reported delivery figures, not verified facility ownership counts.

## Products & services

- **United Private Cloud®** — Software-defined managed private infrastructure for virtual machines, containers, and enterprise applications.
- **Hybrid Colo as a Service** — Colocation combined with private-cloud services, connectivity, and remote management.
- **UnitedConnect®** — Network connectivity linking on-premises, private, public, and edge environments, with direct interconnections and consumption-based options.
- **UnitedSecure** — Managed security services for cloud and data-center environments.
- **Disaster Recovery as a Service** — Managed replication, backup, and recovery services with workload-specific recovery objectives.
- **UnityOneCloud / UnityOne.AI** — Management software for infrastructure discovery, monitoring, hybrid-cloud operations, automation, and cost visibility; documented in a 2020 user guide.
- **UPC Sovereign Cloud** — Dedicated private cloud with jurisdiction-specific residency, access controls, encryption-key control, and managed operations.
- **UPC Vektor** — Control plane combining AI infrastructure observability, cloud management, tenant metering, and agentic orchestration with human approval.
- **UPC AI Factory** — Managed infrastructure for private model training, fine-tuning, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation.
- **UnitedEdge® AI** — A 3U private AI appliance described in the company’s October 2026 engineering guide, intended for branches, plants, clinics, and similar remote sites.

## Achievements

- Named a Leader in managed hosting in the U.S. ISG Provider Lens 2025 Private/Hybrid Cloud - Data Center Services report; ISG independently lists UnitedLayer among quadrant leaders.
- UnitedLayer says the 2025 managed-hosting recognition was its third consecutive year.
- The current leadership page describes coverage across 25+ core and 175+ edge data centers; these are company-reported delivery figures, not verified facility ownership counts.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Published an October 8 technical guide to the UnitedEdge AI 3U private AI appliance; updated October 13.
- **2026-10** — Published October 8 articles about private AI at the edge and evaluating VMware renewals, both updated October 13.
- **2025-07** — Announced its ISG 2025 managed-hosting Leader recognition; the company announcement is dated July 15.

## Links

- Website: https://unitedlayer.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unitedlayer/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/unitedlayer
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/UnitedLayer/

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Last updated: 2026-10-25