The Planet hosting service provider is a famous name for providing its customers with the freedom to choose from the most flexible combination of hosting infrastructure and management services. These services mainly include Dedicated Servers Hosting Service, Managed Hosting Service, and Data Center Colocation etc.
The Planet is currently serving more than 20,000 businesses worldwide and hosting services for more than 15.7 million Web sites. 44 percent of customers of The Planet are in fact located outside of North America and they have more than 48,500 servers under management. The Planet has seven wholly owned and managed SAS 70 Type II certified data centers in which two are located in Houston and five are in Dallas. In addition, The Planet has remarkable presence in London with data center capabilities offering virtual rack solutions. They have more than 180,000 sq. ft. of raised floor data center space and a fully redundant Network Operations Center (NOC) capabilities from two cities. They are capable of providing their uninterrupted services round the clock with 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring capabilities.
The Planet aims to be the best for its customers and services. Its mission is to be the leading provider of IT infrastructure hosting. Their target is to offer its customers the power to choose from dedicated servers and private racks, modular managed services and enterprise-class managed hosting, The Planet enables its customer companies worldwide to turn information technology into a powerful competitive advantage.
Their mission has been shaped by the growth of the Web hosting business. As the industry has evolved, it has moved from its initial stage of hosting servers for passive web publishing and simple e-commerce, into a dynamic environment that enables businesses to gain access to world-class IT capabilities at an affordable price. The commitment of the Planet extends to provide the best customer experience in the industry, consistency in levels of services, faster product provisioning, customized product portfolios and a unique, highly proactive style of managed services. Whether it’s a single dedicated server, a requirement for one-time advanced services, colocation, or premium enterprise-class managed hosting, customers are free to choose the range of solutions that fit their business needs.
As the leading IT hosting provider, The Planet serves as an extension of a group of customers, enabling small- and medium-size businesses to leverage hosting for competitive advantage, which frees them to concentrate on their core competencies and build business success. Customers gain peak performance and on-demand scalability without incurring costs typically associated with buying, staffing and maintaining these systems internally.
The Planet is the second largest and among the most trusted dedicated hosting service provider of the world. This had been next to impossible without a dedicated, highly professional, experienced, skilled, and trustworthy management team and this is what the Planet if equipped with. The highly skilled and reliably professional team of the Planet is composed of ex-employees from well known and highly reputed companies like IBM, RLX Technologies, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Terremark Worldwide, Inc. and Data Return Corporation, APAC Customer Service, Software Spectrum, Inc., DIALAMERICA Marketing and Computer Associates etc. They are alumni of high reputation institutions and universities including The University of Texas, Duke University, University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business, Charnock attended the University of Houston, Texas A&M University, Wesleyan University, and many more. They hold professional degrees in Management, Finance, Sales & Marketing, International Business, Business Administration, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineerng, and other technical and management subjects at graduation and post graduation levels.
Few names to mention in the top management of The Planet are Douglas J. Erwin (Chairman & Chief Executive Officer), Kevin Klausmeyer (Chief Financial Officer), Johnny Vincent (Vice President, Finance, Chief Accounting Officer), Thomas S. Blair (Vice President, Global Sales), Jim Picone (Vice President, Customer Care), Duke S. Skarda (Vice President, Information Technology and Software Development), Scott King (Vice President, Operations), William Charnock (Vice President, Technology), Jeff Lowenberg (Vice President, Facilities), Joseph E. Horzepa, Esq. (General Counsel), and Irene Gaddis (Senior Director of Human Resources).
With its high reputation in the field of services, the Planet has also earned many recognitions and awards. As the largest privately held dedicated hosting company in the world, The Planet has been recognized for its industry leadership, earning awards from industry publications and trade groups. Following are a few to mention in the list of the recognized awards The Planet has received:
S. No.
Award / Recognition
Brief Description about the Recognition
1.
FindMyHost Editor’s Choice Award
The Planet is awarded with the June 2009 FindMyHost Editor’s Choice Award for best colocation provider from FindMyHost.com.
2.
Managed Hosting Award
The Planet was named one of the top three managed hosting providers for June 2009 by Dedicated Server Directory UK.
3.
2008-09 MSPmentor 100
In its first appearance on the list, The Planet captured seventh place on the list of the top 100 managed service providers. The company also ranked fourth for its number of devices managed.
4.
2008 Landmark Award
The Planet won the 2008 Landmark Award for Best Corporate Headquarters Relocation. The company opened its new downtown headquarters in December 2007, consolidating its offices from two locations in north Houston.
5.
Web Host of the Decade
Named one of the five Web Hosts of the Decade by the editors of HostReview, The Planet was recognized for its leadership from 1998 to 2009.
6.
Best Web Hosting Company
The Planet was named the No. 2 Best Web Hosting Company in 2008 by the editors of HostReview.
7.
HostReview Readers Choice Award
The Planet claimed the No. 3 spot in a HostReview poll of its readers’ favorite hosting provider.
8.
Best Dedicated Server Package
The Planet won the award for Best Dedicated Server Package for the year 2008, based on its industry-leading service and cutting-edge technologies.
9.
Houston’s Top Technology Employers
In 2008, The Planet was named by the Houston Business Journal as the 13th-largest technology employer in the 10-county Houston area.
10.
Chronicle 100
For the second consecutive year, The Planet makes the 2008 Chronicle 100 list, a ranking of Houston’s largest privately held companies.
11.
Fast Tech 50
The Planet captured the 29th spot on the Houston Business Journal’s 2008 Fast Tech 50, a ranking of the fastest-growing technology companies in Houston. CEO Doug Erwin was named Enterprise Champion.
12.
2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50
For the third consecutive year, The Planet ranks among the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in Texas.
13.
2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 North America
The Planet is recognized as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the United States and Canada.
14.
TopHosts Best Dedicated Host
The Planet won the Best Dedicated Host award for 2007 from TopHosts.com, based on the company’s six world-class data centers, fully redundant network operations center, and unmatched network speed and connectivity.
15.
Inc. 5000
Named one of the Top 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., The Planet secures a top spot on the Inc. 5000.
16.
VarBusiness 500
For the second year in a row, The Planet captured a spot on the VARBusiness 500, ranking No. 246 among the top solution providers in North America.
17.
4th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA) – Merit Award
The Planet’s private rack server campaign is recognized as one of the top designs in the Professional Services advertising category.
18.
HostReview Monthly Top 10 Best Dedicated Server Package List
The Planet has been included on HostReview’s Top 10 Best Dedicated Server Package List since February 2006.
19.
Netcraft Top 10 Most Reliable Hosting Companies
Netcraft names The Planet as one of the Top 10 Most Reliable Hosting Providers. The designation is based on Netcraft’s measurement and analysis of response times for hosting providers’ sites.
20.
HostReview Top 10 Best Colocation Hosting Award
Recognized for its top-notch colocation hosting services, The Planet offers peak performance and scalability.
21.
HostReview Best Web Hosting Company
Named one of the Top 10 Best Web Hosting Companies since June 2007, The Planet offers excellent performance, pricing and customer support.
22.
CRN Fast Growth 100 – Solution Providers
Recognized as a high-performance solution provider, The Planet captures the #78 spot on CRN’s Fast Growth 100 for 2007.
23.
Inc. 500
Named one of the Top 500 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., The Planet secures the #100 spot on the Inc. 500.
24.
2007 Deloitte Technology Fast 50
The Planet is ranked #12 among technology companies in the Texas region.
25.
2007 Deloitte North American Technology Fast 500
The Planet is recognized as one of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media and entertainment, telecommunications and life sciences companies in the United States and Canada.
The Planet is committed to providing the latest technological solutions of the industry for all IT infrastructure needs of consumer community. They are dedicated to offer reliable, scalable and affordable hosting solutions. No doubt, this huge responsibility and large objectives may be difficult to achieve alone. Therefore The Planet has been working in partnership with different other technology giants for different technical needs and project. Below mentioned is the technology partner list of The Planet:
S. No.
Technology Partner Name
Brief Description about the partner
1.
AlertLogic
Alert Logic is the leading service provider of the industry for on – demand IT compliance and security solutions.
2.
Brocade
Brocade is an industry leader in data center networking solutions and services that enable organizations to manage their most vital information assets.
3.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software is a market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, personal firewall and VPN markets.
4.
Cisco
Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate.
5.
Dell, Inc.
A premier provider of hardware, products and services in the information, technology and Internet infrastructure arena.
6.
F-Secure
F-Secure’s award-winning solutions include anti virus and desktop firewalls with intrusion prevention, anti-Spam and anti-spy ware protection.
7.
Intel
Intel is the world-leader in semiconductor technology.
8.
Lantronix
Lantronix, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX) is a global leader of secure communication technologies that simplifies remote access, management and control of virtually any electronic device.
9.
Microsoft Corporation
Since its founding in 1975, Microsoft has been a leader in transforming the way the world works, plays and communicates.
10.
NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions helping accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency.
11.
Nirvanix
Nirvanix is the premier “Cloud Storage” platform provider.
12.
Parallels
Parallels – formerly SWsoft – is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses and service providers across all major hardware, operating systems and virtualization platforms.
13.
R1Soft
R1Soft is the only provider of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solutions for Linux. With a world-class customer list including some of the world’s largest hosting providers, R1Soft products provides CDP for more than 80,000 mission-critical Linux and Windows servers worldwide.
14.
Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world’s leading open source solutions provider. The company provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
15.
Symantec
Symantec helps consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world.
16.
RIPE NCC
RIPE NCC coordinates IP space allocation in Europe and parts of Central Asia.
The Planet is a member of the Uptime Institute, a prestigious knowledge consortium where global standards and best practices are created and delivered to maintain system uptime and availability. The Uptime Institute provides education, publications, consulting, certifications, conferences and seminars, independent research, and thought leadership for the enterprise data center industry and for data center professionals. Founded in 1993, the Institute pioneered the creation and facilitation of end-user knowledge communities to improve reliability and uninterrupted availability — uptime — in data center facilities and Information Technology organizations. Today, the 100-plus members of the Institute’s global Site Uptime Networks® are mostly Fortune 100-sized companies having multiple data centers averaging 50,000 square feet of computer room area and consuming six megawatts of utility power. Members learn from each other and from the Institute via closed members-only conferences, site tours, benchmarking programs, best-practice sharing, abnormal incident collection, Flash Reports, and shared metrics.
ThePlanet Hosting
ThePlanet.com, which is also referred as The Planet, is supposed to be the number 1 dedicated server hosting service provider in the world and the second largest in the world of service providers of its kind.
The Planet hosting service provider is a famous name for providing its customers with the freedom to choose from the most flexible combination of hosting infrastructure and management services. These services mainly include Dedicated Servers Hosting Service, Managed Hosting Service, and Data Center Colocation etc.
The Planet is currently serving more than 20,000 businesses worldwide and hosting services for more than 15.7 million Web sites. 44 percent of customers of The Planet are in fact located outside of North America and they have more than 48,500 servers under management. The Planet has seven wholly owned and managed SAS 70 Type II certified data centers in which two are located in Houston and five are in Dallas. In addition, The Planet has remarkable presence in London with data center capabilities offering virtual rack solutions. They have more than 180,000 sq. ft. of raised floor data center space and a fully redundant Network Operations Center (NOC) capabilities from two cities. They are capable of providing their uninterrupted services round the clock with 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring capabilities.
The Planet is one of the fastest, most robust networks of the industry with 250+ gigabits/sec of transit network capacity to 6 Tier 1 backbone networks. The Planet currently serves to its customers with more than 500 employees.
The Planet aims to be the best for its customers and services. Its mission is to be the leading provider of IT infrastructure hosting. Their target is to offer its customers the power to choose from dedicated servers and private racks, modular managed services and enterprise-class managed hosting, The Planet enables its customer companies worldwide to turn information technology into a powerful competitive advantage.
Their mission has been shaped by the growth of the Web hosting business. As the industry has evolved, it has moved from its initial stage of hosting servers for passive web publishing and simple e-commerce, into a dynamic environment that enables businesses to gain access to world-class IT capabilities at an affordable price. The commitment of the Planet extends to provide the best customer experience in the industry, consistency in levels of services, faster product provisioning, customized product portfolios and a unique, highly proactive style of managed services. Whether it’s a single dedicated server, a requirement for one-time advanced services, colocation, or premium enterprise-class managed hosting, customers are free to choose the range of solutions that fit their business needs.
As the leading IT hosting provider, The Planet serves as an extension of a group of customers, enabling small- and medium-size businesses to leverage hosting for competitive advantage, which frees them to concentrate on their core competencies and build business success. Customers gain peak performance and on-demand scalability without incurring costs typically associated with buying, staffing and maintaining these systems internally.
The Planet is the second largest and among the most trusted dedicated hosting service provider of the world. This had been next to impossible without a dedicated, highly professional, experienced, skilled, and trustworthy management team and this is what the Planet if equipped with. The highly skilled and reliably professional team of the Planet is composed of ex-employees from well known and highly reputed companies like IBM, RLX Technologies, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Terremark Worldwide, Inc. and Data Return Corporation, APAC Customer Service, Software Spectrum, Inc., DIALAMERICA Marketing and Computer Associates etc. They are alumni of high reputation institutions and universities including The University of Texas, Duke University, University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business, Charnock attended the University of Houston, Texas A&M University, Wesleyan University, and many more. They hold professional degrees in Management, Finance, Sales & Marketing, International Business, Business Administration, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineerng, and other technical and management subjects at graduation and post graduation levels.
Few names to mention in the top management of The Planet are Douglas J. Erwin (Chairman & Chief Executive Officer), Kevin Klausmeyer (Chief Financial Officer), Johnny Vincent (Vice President, Finance, Chief Accounting Officer), Thomas S. Blair (Vice President, Global Sales), Jim Picone (Vice President, Customer Care), Duke S. Skarda (Vice President, Information Technology and Software Development), Scott King (Vice President, Operations), William Charnock (Vice President, Technology), Jeff Lowenberg (Vice President, Facilities), Joseph E. Horzepa, Esq. (General Counsel), and Irene Gaddis (Senior Director of Human Resources).
With its high reputation in the field of services, the Planet has also earned many recognitions and awards. As the largest privately held dedicated hosting company in the world, The Planet has been recognized for its industry leadership, earning awards from industry publications and trade groups. Following are a few to mention in the list of the recognized awards The Planet has received:
The Planet is committed to providing the latest technological solutions of the industry for all IT infrastructure needs of consumer community. They are dedicated to offer reliable, scalable and affordable hosting solutions. No doubt, this huge responsibility and large objectives may be difficult to achieve alone. Therefore The Planet has been working in partnership with different other technology giants for different technical needs and project. Below mentioned is the technology partner list of The Planet:
The Planet is a member of the Uptime Institute, a prestigious knowledge consortium where global standards and best practices are created and delivered to maintain system uptime and availability. The Uptime Institute provides education, publications, consulting, certifications, conferences and seminars, independent research, and thought leadership for the enterprise data center industry and for data center professionals. Founded in 1993, the Institute pioneered the creation and facilitation of end-user knowledge communities to improve reliability and uninterrupted availability — uptime — in data center facilities and Information Technology organizations. Today, the 100-plus members of the Institute’s global Site Uptime Networks® are mostly Fortune 100-sized companies having multiple data centers averaging 50,000 square feet of computer room area and consuming six megawatts of utility power. Members learn from each other and from the Institute via closed members-only conferences, site tours, benchmarking programs, best-practice sharing, abnormal incident collection, Flash Reports, and shared metrics.