Posts Tagged ‘the planet cloud hosting’

The Planet And Softlayer Agreement

Friday, August 6th, 2010

As many of you know, The Planet is located in Houston and has been there for four years since its move from Dallas.  Investors are considering moving the company back to Dallas as part of a possible merger with a related Internet hosting company SoftLayer.

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The company is in talks to merge with the Dallas located technology company SoftLayer, which recently sold a 70 percent equity stake to the same investors who brought The Planet to Houston, officials for both companies said Thursday.

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“There’s a tremendous amount of consolidation going on in the hosting business,” said The Planet CEO Doug Erwin. “We happen to both be owned by a company that’s high on what’s going on in the hosting business.”

I don’t know if any of us realize how big of a deal this could be but the newly combined company would have more than 25,000 customers and about 78,000 servers under management. It would be the second-largest Web hosting company in the U.S. based on revenue, behind only San Antonio-based Rackspace.  Cloud hosting would be set to a whole new level.

That would mean more than 78,000 cloud servers would be controlled by one company, this will be a huge deal.  With more than 350 people working for the two companies, this will make them the 2nd largest cloud hosting company in the world.

By the numbers

Comparing The Planet and SoftLayer:

Annual revenue

The Planet: $160 million

The Planet: $160 million

• SoftLayer: $120 million

Employees

• The Planet: • 525

• SoftLayer: 160

Servers managed

• The Planet • : • 48,000

• SoftLayer: 30,000

Web sites hosted

• The Planet: • 15 • million

• SoftLayer: 5 million

Data Centers:

• The Planet: • 8

Softlayer: 4

Source: The Planet

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Dynapp Adds The Planet Server Cloud

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

The Planet announced that Dynapp has adopted the company’s new Server Cloud as an added service for its existing hosting platform.Dynapp provides a broad array of applications and services for websites and web-based businesses, all built on its proprietary content management system. Additional Dynapp services include development of e-commerce systems, e-mail newsletters and other web-related requirements.

“Our clients count on us for unequivocal service and reliability,” said Dynapp Chief Technology Officer Wes Byrd. “We’ve had a number of questions from clients about cloud solutions, so we carefully evaluated a number that we felt were possibilities. Hands-down The Planet provided the best solution for our business. The fact that bandwidth is included with each virtual server, accompanied by predictable pricing with no surprises, provides us with assurances that our clients will find this to be a good product for their specific requirements.”

“We expressly designed Server Cloud to meet the requirements clearly articulated by our customers,” said Tom Blair, vice president of Global Sales for The Planet. “Customers rely on us for high availability, seamless scalability and generous bandwidth, which they’ll find in our new Server Cloud. There’s already been tremendous interest in this new offering, as an important and attractive option to add to their existing hosting capabilities, because of the significant value it provides.”

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The Planet Now Offering Server Cloud Through Channel Partners

Friday, July 9th, 2010

The Planet announced that it will now be offering solution providers the ability to sell cloud-based virtual server architectures to smaller customers looking for extra processing power without the need to invest in more servers than they really need.

The Planet Server Cloud provides a combination of Intel Nehalem-based Dell servers, Oracle Sun storage, with Cisco and Juniper networking, with virtualization provided by the Canonical Ubuntu Server’s KVM hypervisor.  “The result is a cloud-based, virtual server offering which helps smaller business and Web-based businesses gain access to consistent high-performance and dedicated virtual resources”, said Carl Meadows, senior product manager for cloud services at The Planet.

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