The Planet Expands Technology Portfolio with New Servers, Load Balancers

September 25, 2007; 09:13 AM

HOUSTON – The Planet, the world’s largest privately held dedicated hosting company, today added new mid-range, high-performance and Ready-To-Go servers to its product portfolio.  The company also bolstered its private rack offerings with the availability of Foundry’s new ServerIron Global Server Load Balancer products that operate at gigabit speeds and beyond.
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“Fast, flexible and reliable is always the name of the game when customers evaluate new technologies,” said Urvish Vashi, The Planet’s Director of Product Management.  “Whether it’s absolute high-performance, a mid-range solution or products ready in just an hour, we’re working to provide solutions for the most exacting customers. With our size and scale, we complete the equation with SMB pricing.”

Next-Generation Powerful Servers

Designed to provide choices in processing power, price and flexibility, The Planet today adds three new servers to meet the needs of its broad customer spectrum:

• Dell 840 Kentsfield Servers:  These next-generation mid-range performance servers are powered by a single quad-core multiprocessor system, equipped with Intel’s Xeon 3210 series processors with up to 8GB of memory.
  
• Dell PowerEdge 2950 Dual Clovertown Servers:  These new “skinny” Clovertowns provide high-performance Xeon 5335 processors that are less expensive and more flexible.  With the smaller configuration and footprint, the dual processor, quad-core server delivers next-generation power, expandability, rack density and up to 1.8TB of internal storage
  
• Ready-To-Go Opteron Servers:  The company’s Dual Opteron 265 servers are now part of its Ready-To-Go server line, available to customers in under an hour with or without the cPanel control panel. 
  

Foundry ServerIron Load Balancers

Operating at gigabit speeds and beyond, Foundry Networks’ load balancers can provide the added benefit of multi-geography redundancy. Customers can choose from products that optimize performance and uptime of their critical applications. 

• Foundry 4G & 4G-SSL: These load balancers are designed to meet the growing demand for secure and accelerated delivery of Web services in data center environments.  The devices support a broad range of IP- and Web-based applications for small-scale enterprise and e-commerce organizations.
  
• Global Server Load Balancing:  For customers who require load balancing and high availability across Web sites or server farms hosted in multiple data centers, the Foundry GSLB directs customers to the location with the fastest response time.  In the event of a failure, GSLB transparently directs customers to the best alternate location for uninterrupted service.
  

For additional information about these products or other services from The Planet, please visit the Web site at http://www.theplanet.com.

About The Planet

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 2.8 million Web sites worldwide.  By offering the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and unmatched network connectivity, The Planet helps turn information technology into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to successfully grow their businesses.  For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com/.