A post published March 20, 2011 described Expression’s planned Tier Blue infrastructure services. The offering was designed to help application-service providers expand their Internet operations through geographic traffic distribution and disaster recovery between data-center locations.
The announcement also outlined configuration, management, billing, monitoring, and log-management services. A proposed Rapid restore capability would draw on standby servers to replace failed machines. Proposed failover paths connected Silicon Valley infrastructure with data centers on the East Coast and in the United Kingdom.