(Webhosting.info) Companies to expand on-demand hosting platform across the United States.

Internap Network Services Corporation, a provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions and SoftLayer Technologies Inc., an innovative supplier of on-demand hosting services, today announced the signing of a 5-year $40 million contract under which Internap will deliver data center colocation, route-optimized IP networking and content delivery network services.

The company states that these services from Internap will expand their on-demand hosting infrastructure to the Eastern United States and be seamlessly integrated with their data centers in Dallas and Seattle. Reflecting company’s success in the marketplace, this new agreement is in addition to the 5-year $16 million contract announced by the two companies.

“Internap and SoftLayer are bringing to the market a new, tightly coupled managed hosting model that is delivering enterprise-class, large-scale computing by the slice,” said Lance Crosby, chief executive officer at SoftLayer. “With Internap we’ve been able to get to market faster and deliver higher quality solutions that our customers value and are core to their business operations. The combination of Internap’s world-class IP networking, data center colocation and content delivery network, along with SoftLayer’s innovative product development, flexible deployment and automation tools, creates and delivers the most advanced on-demand hosting services available today.”

“SoftLayer and Internap have rapidly and successfully deployed a powerful, on-demand hosting infrastructure to support enterprise applications, rich media and online business,” said James P. DeBlasio, chief executive officer at Internap. “The demand for these services has been very strong and is driving us to expand the model across the United States leveraging Internap’s network and data center solutions and SoftLayer’s innovative Web hosting products, exceptional service delivery and automated operations. Together, we will be able to deliver a robust set of enterprise-class IT solutions to a broader marketplace than ever before.”