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Akorri to Prevent Data Center Outages

August 23rd, 2010

(The Hosting News) – Akorri announced today the latest version of the company’s award-winning BalancePoint software that introduces automated predictive analysis to help IT organizations prevent outages and bottlenecks in increasingly complex virtualized infrastructure. The first in a series of predictive capabilities, BalancePoint Predictor™ for Storage automatically detects issues that can quickly lead to application outages. In addition, the new BalancePoint software continues its cross-domain leadership adding new analytics and expanding heterogeneous infrastructure management via new features such as Disk Utilization, support for Microsoft Hyper-V, and expanded multi-vendor storage support.

“BalancePoint Predictor is the first solution that is able to predict storage issues in virtual environments before they happen,” said Bob Laliberte at ESG. “This unique capability provides actionable guidance to the operations team, before users experience any slow response times, enabling them to confidently assure service levels for virtualized Tier 1 applications.”
New features in BalancePoint include:

• BalancePoint Predictor for Storage– Automatically detects physical or virtualized I/O workload “bullies” and “victims” and alerts on disk contention issuesto prevent brownouts and downtime.

• Disk Utilization- Provides an intelligent early warning for stressed disks. This newmetric warns against dangerously increasing loads on a disk.

• Heterogeneous Hypervisor Support– New support for Microsoft Hyper-V in addition to support for VMware vSphere 4.1allows users to manage both vSphere and Hyper-V with a single BalancePoint system.

• Expanded Storage Support- Support for NetApp V-series, HP SVSP, HDS Dynamic Provisioning.

“As IT organizations mature their virtual infrastructures to support critical applications, tools that provide rich application workload analysis and data path visualization are required,” said Chris Wolf, research vice president at Gartner. “Organizations should not wait until the first mission critical application problem before arming themselves with the right performance and capacity tools. Instead, purpose-built tools that provide the required insight to solve application health problems in virtual infrastructure should be an assumed management requirement in all production deployments.”

“As organizations continue to virtualize and evolve to private cloud-based infrastructures, the complexity and the contention for pooled resources is significantly amplified, and the need for predictive performance and capacity management becomes critical,” said Jim Comstock, VP of Marketing at Akorri. “With this new version of BalancePoint, Akorri is the first to deliver this critical functionality and significantly improve how storage resources are managed in today’s dynamic data center.”

Akorri to Prevent Data Center Outages

GigeNET Adds New Features to GigeNETCloud

August 2nd, 2010

(The Hosting News) – GigeNETCloud, the Illinois-based Cloud Server provider, announced that its GigeNETCloud with its newly added features is the best and most feature rich Cloud environment on the market today.

“The newest version once again puts everyone else behind. Snapshots, VPN access, RDNS, Clone your Cloud from a Snapshot we are moving and moving fast,” said Ameen Pishdadi, GigeNET CTO. “With our Infrastructure and continued updates and improvements coming out every other week, we are definitely one of the front runners in Cloud Computing. GigeNETCloud customers are receiving the best options in the industry for the best possible price.”

With these newest upgrades, GigeNET offers an amazing array of features, with easily scalable Cloud servers. GigeNETCloud continues to improve on what Cloud offerings used to be, giving GigeNETCloud customers the widest range of possibilities for combining services and use, while maintaining fiscal responsibility.

GigeNETCloud customers have been very supportive since its inception and are signing up to use the exciting new features on the Cloud and like the possibility of combining GigeNET Dedicated Servers and Co-location services with the Cloud Servers to maintain flexibility in their custom environment. GigeNETCloud offers a free trial, showing once again GigeNET confidence in product and development. Contact GigeNETCloud Sales Chat for a free Trial.

Cloud Server clustering and Cloud Server communications support connectivity between private networks and GigeNET’s dedicated servers, www.gigenet.com. This can easily be accomplished with VLANs and GigeNET private networking. “We are able to set up customized configurations for our clients, we have the knowhow and support personnel to do that for our clients” said Ameen Pishdadi GigeNET CTO, “we treat our customers like family and not like a number, we are interested in being a partner, not just a provider.”

“The newest version of the GigeNETCloud includes significant upgrades and improvements,” states Pishdadi. “New features, more options on the control panel, better management tools, VPN access and many more little details making our customers life just a little easier. Our cloud server performance is already second to none.”

With a high availability and redundant infrastructure, managed 24/7 tech support to every subscriber at every level, and new features being added every 30 to 60 days, GigeNETCloud is a staple and the go-to location in the Cloud Server Hosting Industry.

For more information, visit www.gigenetcloud.com.

GigeNET Adds New Features to GigeNETCloud

Cloud.bg Beefs Up Affiliate Program

August 2nd, 2010

(The Hosting News) – Cloud.bg announced today that its Affiliates are now making more money when sending new Cloud Hosting customers to the company.

The company has raised its Standard Affiliate Commission Rate (per sale rate) from 18% to 20%. The new rate allows Cloud.bg Affiliates to earn €60 – €240 more on annual basis, depending of the volume of sales on their Affiliate Accounts. The Cloud host has told the IT media that now the lowest possible commission it pays per sale (the one for 1 month subscription) is €21.80 ($28.45). It applies to Affiliates who bring a new customer of sCloud (Shared Cloud Hosting) service plan.

Cloud.bg has specified that 75% of its sCloud customers usually choose to sign up an annual contract, because this cuts their costs for Cloud hosting services to only €20/month.

“The average commission our Affiliates usually earn is €48 ($63) per sale. We pay such commission when they bring us new customer who signs up annual contract of sCloud service plan. This rate is higher than those Shared Hosting providers offer. Plus it is not the highest commission rate Affiliates can earn with us. Plus Cloud.bg Shared and Reseller plans are fancy and people like them!”, says Dimitar Avramov, founder and CEO of Cloud.bg.

He has also added that when Affiliates send to his company new customers of RCloud (Reseller Cloud Hosting) service plan, they can receive commission of €116.56 ($152.50) per sale? Such commission is added to their Affiliate Accounts when a new Cloud Reseller Account owner signs up for annual subscription on RCloud, a Cloud Reseller plan, manageable through cPanel’s “Root and Reseller Admin Panel”.

“Cloud.bg is a good partner to those website owners who are looking forward to making money out of referring consumers to providers of quality web hosting services. You have probably found out that Cloud.bg is the Europe’s premier provider of””Cloud.bg is a good partner to those website owners who are looking forward to making money out of referring consumers to providers of quality web hosting services. You have probably found out that Cloud.bg is the Europe’s premier provider of “cPanel armed” Cloud Hosting provider and one of the very few Shared and Reseller Cloud Hosting providers world-wide”, explains the founder of Cloud.bg and adds that the company’s officials don’t need to be demure and can say that they have achieved a lot since the launch of the Cloud at the end of 2009.

“Eight months after we announced Cloud.bg, we are globally recognized provider of Cloud Hosting services based on the best L.A.M.P standards and Cloud computing practices. We are also the first ever Cloud hosting service to enable website owner to use cPanel/WHM control panel on the Shared Cloud environment”, explains Mr. Avramov and says that company’s leadership says “Thank you cPanel for your support”.

The company’s message to anyone who participates to its Cloud Affiliate Program is “Don’t invest in Cloud computing. Just start making profit on the Cloud.bg!” It has published a breakdown of the Affiliate payout on its Cloud Affiliate Program ( http://www.cloud.bg/en/affiliate-program ) page.

The Cloud service provider has recently released a coupon code named “FREECLOUDSSL”. The code gives to customers of sCloud (Shared Cloud Hosting) plan an opportunity to add Free ‘Essential SSL’ certificate to their cloud hosting service plans.

sCloud features 100 GB SAN storage replicated for redundancy, 1,000 GB premium monthly bandwidth and allows Cloud account owners to host up to 100 different websites as cPanel add-on domains. The customers of sCloud hosting plan manage their websites through cPanel’s familiar interface ‘Domain Owner Panel’. Their websites are hosted on a fully redundant, clustered infrastructure. The sCloud features IP load-balancing for the services featured in the hosting plan.

Cloud.bg Beefs Up Affiliate Program

StratoGen Managed Hosting announces major upgrade

July 29th, 2010

(The Hosting News) – StratoGen completed today the final phase of its strategic upgrade of core network facilities. The upgraded network can carry more than 10GB of data per second and will provide customers with increased scalability, higher capacity and total resilience. It took 6 months to design, build and deploy.

The project has been completed 2 months early with zero downtime, which is testament to the talented engineers employed by the company.

Karl Robinson, Director of StratoGen, said: “We already have an enviable reputation for network quality and we continue to invest in our infrastructure to make sure we stay ahead. All our clients have a 100% uptime guarantee so it was vitally important that these significant upgrades were planned in such a way so as to avoid any service disruption. Naturally I’m very proud of the performance of our technical team as this will serve to highlight the strength of our service level agreement and the calibre of the engineers that look after our infrastructure.”

The deployment of all new high-end Cisco routers and switches has resulted in a significant speed increase and makes StratoGen one of the most resilient managed hosting providers in Europe. In addition, the platform allows for complex private network infrastructures and can cope with huge volumes of event driven Internet traffic.

“UK businesses have become increasingly aware of the importance of their online presence and this has led to a rapid growth in managed hosting. With these upgrades in place we can look forward to servicing many more customers and deploying complex hosting infrastructures with ease,” Robinson said.

For further information please visit http://www.stratogen.net/

About StratoGen
StratoGen is a managed hosting company providing enterprise VMware hosting, managed server hosting, colocation and connectivity products all backed by a 100% uptime SLA.

StratoGen have invested significant capital into building out a true enterprise class infrastructure that offers clients real business benefits whilst reducing their costs. High uptime, high throughput websites and online applications require resilient & scalable hosting solutions and this is where StratoGen is a market leader.

StratoGen Managed Hosting announces major upgrade

ISPsystem Supports Cloud Linux’s SecureLVE

July 28th, 2010

ISPsystem Supports Cloud Linux’s SecureLVE(The Hosting News) – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today announces that ISPsystem will support SecureLVE™ in their control panel, ISPmanager. As one of the leading web server control panels, ISPmanager allows hosting service providers to manage various aspects of a web server via a friendly and easy-to-use web interface. Integrating SecureLVE into the control panel gives hosting providers new security controls previously unavailable.

SecureLVE is based on CloudLinux’s Lightweight Virtual Environment™ technology and creates a new level of security for shared hosting servers. SecureLVE provides a virtualized file system, which separates each user on the server into its own environment, preventing one user from seeing any other users on the server. This new server security makes it difficult for hackers to attack, deface, or steal data from the shared web server.

“We are very pleased to have SecureLVE integrated into ISPmanager because it will give hosting providers not only the control promised by CloudLinux but also the most secure shared hosting environment available,” states Cloud Linux Inc. Founder and CEO Igor Seletskiy.

Since it is based on CloudLinux’s Lightweight Virtual Environment technology that allows the administrator to control usage of the resources on a server at the tenant or application level, SecureLVE virtualizes a filesystem to limit the available applications, devices, and what a user can see in the file system to make it harder for an attacker to penetrate the server. Unlike existing technologies limited only to shell access, SecureLVE works across shell, CGI & cronjobs.

“Supporting CloudLinux with ISPmanager is a big win for our customers,” states Igor Chekushkin, ISPsystem CEO. “SecureLVE will fill the critical gap in security for shared hosting setup. Combining the ability to manage resources on a per tenant basis with the ease of ISPmanager will create a top of the line solution and a excellent experience for the end customers.”

The integration of SecureLVE into ISPmanager is further demonstration of Cloud Linux’s promise to help service providers improve efficiency and security of multi- tenant setups. SecureLVE provides system administrations functionality similar to container based virtualization, but on application level instead of the OS level. It will fill the gap between shared hosting and virtual private servers (VPS), and will allow server administrators to increase server stability and density while greatly improving the security of shared hosting.

About ISPsystem
ISPsystem is a fast growing software development company specialized in web technology. ISPsystem was founded in February 2004 with the mission to provide and design the best web hosting automation software available. The core of the company is a dedicated team of highly skilled programmers who work hard at fulfilling this mission. Their products are installed on thousands of servers worldwide. For more information visit http://www.ispsystem.com

About Cloud Linux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, Cloud Linux Inc. is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.

Cloud Linux Inc. provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.

To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn.  For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.

ISPsystem Supports Cloud Linux’s SecureLVE

Peak 10 Enhances Network with Added Capacity and Connectivity

July 27th, 2010

(The Hosting News) – Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company with world-class data centers, is pleased to announce that it will be adding a 10Gb port from XO Communications to the already robust Peak 10 network.  This circuit addition will further enhance Peak 10’s expansive Internet presence and will be added to Peak 10’s redundant Internet network. XO Communications, one of the nation’s largest communications service providers, will be installing the port in Peak 10 Atlanta, which will provide Peak 10 customers additional large-scale bandwidth across the company’s 10 markets.

“As our customer base expands, we continually upgrade our high-performance and fully-redundant network infrastructure,” said Jeff Biggs, the senior vice president of operations and engineering at Peak 10. “This strategy includes upgrading the capacity of our network backbone and further positioning our data centers for peering directly with each other. This peering design provides additional bandwidth to both customers and Peak 10 and allows for rapid implementations of our customers’ network requirements.”

Peak 10’s network infrastructure provides customers with reliable connectivity, high performance, and includes around-the-clock monitoring, notification and reporting. In addition, each data center facility deploys multiple carrier-agnostic connections for maximum dependability and redundancy.

“Our network enhancements allow for an increase in the number of external peering relationships available to each Peak 10 market, as well as the flexibility for Peak 10 to assimilate and add data centers in both existing and future markets,” said Ronnie Frames, the director of network services for Peak 10. “They also bolster Peak 10’s already unprecedented level of customer service and allow our expert engineering team to respond to high volume Internet service requests quickly and efficiently out of our high-bandwidth peering centers. We will continue to enhance the performance and resilience of our network infrastructure.”

Peak 10’s managed IT and data center services improve performance, reliability, lower costs and maximize internal resources for customers while keeping their valuable information technology assets close to the business. The company combines its secure, private network and enterprise-class data centers with world-class engineering and support to serve market-leading companies nationwide. As a managed services leader, Peak 10 offers a wide range of technology services, including virtualization, managed hosting, and cloud-based services in a cost-efficient and reliable platform for its customers. The company owns and operates data centers in 10 key markets that include Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Tampa, Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; and Richmond, Va.

About XO Communications
XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: XOHO), is a leading nationwide provider of advanced broadband communications services and solutions for businesses, enterprises, government, carriers and service providers. Its customers include more than half of the Fortune 500 companies, in addition to leading cable companies, carriers, content providers and mobile network operators. Utilizing its unique combination of high-capacity nationwide and metro networks and broadband wireless capabilities, XO offers customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services with proven performance, scalability and value in more than 75 metropolitan markets across the United States. For more information, visit www.xo.com.

About Peak 10 Inc.
Peak 10 is a managed services company with world-class data centers. It delivers scalable, economical and reliable solutions for hosting and managing complex information technology infrastructure. The company’s expert team embraces the industry’s evolving technologies by adopting and tailoring solutions such as virtualization and cloud-based services as part of its robust managed services offering. Its strong customer focus, financial stability, geographic diversity and technical strength attracts market-leading companies such as LendingTree, Global Knowledge, Pergo, Healthways, Churchill Downs and The Fresh Market. Peak 10 is SAS70 Type II compliant and helps companies meet the requirements of various regulatory compliance acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, PCI and Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA). For more information on data center solutions from Peak 10, visit www.peak10.com.

Peak 10 Enhances Network with Added Capacity and Connectivity

Web Hosting Talk and The Planet Unveil Cloud Benchmarking Tool

July 20th, 2010

(The Hosting News)  – The Planet, the global hosting leader, and Web Hosting Talk, the largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet, today announced the beta development of a free, online cloud benchmarking tool designed to save businesses time and money when selecting a cloud provider. The new service, known as Bench the Cloud (http://www.benchthecloud.com), gives visibility into the performance of cloud or virtualized server platforms, and provides standardized performance feedback and comparisons.
The site was co-developed by Web Hosting Talk and The Planet. Web Hosting Talk will own and manage the site, and The Planet will become a charter member of Bench the Cloud’s advisory board.
Bench the Cloud is built on a suite of open-source benchmarking tools and measures three key criteria essential to running cloud applications: CPU performance, disk read and disk write speed. Further information about these three performance indices is detailed in an individualized dashboard. Users can sort and filter the public benchmarks according to provider, virtualization status, total RAM and CPU cores. The application can also be used to test non-virtualized machines, and can be downloaded onto any Linux-based machine.
“One of the many popular discussion topics on Web Hosting Talk is how to accurately compare cloud providers based on a standard set of measurements,” said Kevin Gold, director of marketing for iNET Interactive, owner of Web Hosting Talk. “We hear from our community members that it’s difficult to make informed cloud buying decisions. As active members of Web Hosting Talk and an industry leader, The Planet approached us about co-developing a community-driven benchmarking tool that would bring the transparency the global community is seeking.”
“We contributed real-world feedback into building this industry-first tool with Web Hosting Talk,” said Carl Meadows, senior product manager for cloud solutions at The Planet. “We’ve seen first-hand from our customers the time spent researching various cloud providers, and the amount of confusion and misinformation that exists in the marketplace. Our goal in participating is to provide additional value to customers by offering a quick, transparent view of the strengths, weaknesses and performance of solutions – a virtual ‘Consumer Reports’ for the cloud. Customers can now objectively compare solutions before purchase, and make their first pick the right one.”
Web Hosting Talk will hand out invitations to participate in a limited closed beta for Bench the Cloud at its booth at HostingCon 2010, which begins July 19 in Austin, Texas. Stop by booth 134 to receive an invitation, or visit http://www.benchthecloud.com for more information.

About Web Hosting Talk
Web Hosting Talk (http://www.webhostingtalk.com) is the largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet with over 240,000 registered members and over six million posts generated. It is one of many social media properties owned and operated by iNET Interactive.

About NET Interactive
Founded in 2002, iNET Interactive (whttp://www.iNETinteractive.com), owner of Web Hosting Talk, is a social media company operating prominent online communities for Internet professionals and technology enthusiasts. Its vertically focused communities incorporate user-contributed ratings, reviews, and discussion augmented with professionally produced content.

About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 18,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.
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Web Hosting Talk and The Planet Unveil Cloud Benchmarking Tool

VertexHost selects VegasNAP for Mission Critical Colocation Services

July 15th, 2010

(The Hosting News) – VertexHost, a leading professional Internet solutions provider specializing in MySQL optimized hosting services, has chosen VegasNAP, Las Vegas’ Premier Datacenter, for expansion of its hosting services. With this commitment, VertexHost will be able to extend its multiple-tiered services with VegasNAP’s 14,000 square foot facility that includes a 6,500 square foot conditioned datacenter, 24/7 onsite technical support, fully supplied technical stations, highest quality UPS and standby generator systems and top-grade security systems.

“We feel that VegasNAP is a top-notch facility with a fantastic infrastructure. When choosing a facility we took a lot of things into consideration, including location, power, cooling, network, security and even the helpfulness of the staff. It was clear that VegasNAP was going to be the right facility for us and since moving in they have exceeded our expectations on all fronts. We are already working with VegasNAP management to plan the next phase of our growth at their facility and look forward to being there for many years to come,” explains Billy Cooter, Managing Partner, VertexHost.com.

Rob Tyree, VegasNAP VP and CTO added, “We welcome Mr. Cooter of VertexHost as the latest web hosting provider to use our facilities, and look forward to a long, personal relationship with his company.”

Tyree explains that the rapid growth in clientele is on par to the initial schedule planned and will allow for more expansion of the datacenter as services are needed. A build out of their power and HVAC systems is already underway to keep ahead of the demand expected over the next two quarters.

VertexHost selects VegasNAP for Mission Critical Colocation Services

Virpus announces the launch of VirtuPulse -a full a la carte VPS service

July 15th, 2010

(The Hosting News) – Virpus Networks, Inc, a leader in budget VPS Hosting announces the continuation of its a la carte VPS service – VirtuPulse.com.

In March of 2006, Virpus launched GetAVPS.com – the very first VPS customization service offered on the market at that time. Today, the brand has died off, however with the release of VirtuPulse, Virpus hopes to bring back to light its VPS customization services it has offered since near inception.

“Over time, we lost focus of GetAVPS.com, and allowed it to die off. With more and more demand for customized solutions, we figured it was time to re-launch this service, under a new name and more aggressive pricing” says Kenneth Odem, the co-founder and Chief Executive of Virpus Networks, Inc – originally founded in Indianapolis, Indiana.

About Virpus Networks, Inc.

Founded in February of 2006 by Kenneth Odem, Virpus Networks is a leading provider in virtualized solutions. Virpus Networks today is a sustaining profitable company, that has the mission of providing business grade solutions at highly competitive price points with hundreds of customers from all across the globe.

Virpus announces the launch of VirtuPulse -a full a la carte VPS service

The Planet Participates as Silver Sponsor at HostingCon 2010

July 15th, 2010

(The Hosting News)  – The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced that Chairman and CEO Douglas J. Erwin will be a featured speaker on two conference panels at HostingCon 2010, which takes place July 19-21 in Austin, Texas. Web Hosting Evangelist Kevin Hazard will also participate in a panel on social media.

Erwin’s first appearance will be at the conference track titled, “Adding Value to Your Business With Financial and Operating Metrics,” scheduled for Monday, July 19, at 9 a.m. CDT. Erwin joins executives from Endurance International, SingleHop, Corelink Data Centers and Cheval Capital in discussing methods used to track business and create value. The session will be moderated by hosting legal expert David Snead.

Erwin’s second panel takes place later that day at 1 p.m., titled, “Opportunities and Advantages for Hosting Resellers.” Moderated by Liam Eagle, editor of the Web Host Industry Review, Erwin will join executives from Tucows and A Small Orange to share perspectives on reselling hosting services, including how to optimize business operations through partnerships and new technologies, such as the cloud.

On the second day of the conference, Hazard will participate in a panel that examines how hosting companies can best utilize social media marketing to drive brand awareness, gain feedback and ultimately increase profits. The session, titled “Optimizing Social Media for Branding, Traffic and Sales,” is slated for July 20 at 9 a.m. and includes social media experts from NameDynamics, Resolution Media and Appbistro.com.

The Planet is a silver sponsor of the conference, and will showcase its hosting and cloud solutions at booth 124 of the expo. There, the company will continue its popular Server Challenge, which tasks conference attendees to post the fastest time in correctly rebuilding a server. Giveaways will include an Asus Eee PC netbook and a Flip video camcorder. The Planet is also running show specials, with discounts on various hosting and cloud solutions available to those who visit the booth.
For more information on The Planet at HostingCon, visit http://www.theplanet.com/events.

About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 18,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.

The Planet Participates as Silver Sponsor at HostingCon 2010