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The Planet Launches New Storage Cloud
2008-11-17
HOUSTON, Nov. 17, 2008 ? The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting,
today announced limited availability of its new highly scalable and on-demand
storage cloud service. In an industry first, The Planet has merged on-premise
storage performance with cloud storage capabilities, which opens a whole new
world for companies to extend their hosted environments directly into the cloud.
By combining two products into a single offering, customers gain additional
benefits, including free uploads to the local node and a single policy-driven
account to manage all file-based storage needs.
Today, many companies are hesitant to build their businesses on the available
cloud platforms due to hidden fees and inconsistent performance. By contrast,
The Planet provides simple and transparent pricing, backed by an
industry-leading Service Level Agreement (SLA), creating an attractive and
highly competitive value proposition. In addition, The Planet offers the
industry?s only geographically distributed cloud storage platform.
Through its partnership with Nirvanix and its Storage Delivery Network™ (SDN) ?
which offers a resident mid-continent node in The Planet?s Dallas D2 data center
? customers can select precisely where they want to house their data in the
storage cloud. Nirvanix operates a global cluster of storage nodes on the East
and West Coasts of the United States, as well as in Europe and Asia. Customers
can select storage from The Planet?s node or from any Nirvanix location.
?While cloud storage often appears to be an economical approach for solving the
storage dilemma so many companies face, there are often unanticipated fees,?
said Rob Walters, general manager for The Planet?s Storage and Data Protection
line of business. ?Hidden bandwidth charges and the costs for actually accessing
data ? commonly known as puts, gets and lists ? actually cause the economies to
quickly evaporate. We?re able to offer a flat fee so that customers know
precisely what they?re paying for ? storage capacity and bandwidth ? which is
even more important in today?s difficult economy.?
?By building on the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network, The Planet combines the
best of both worlds so that customers are the real winners,? said Nirvanix CEO
Patrick Harr. ?They can either access our local Dallas node or optimize storage
in virtually any corner of the world from our global cluster, combined with very
attractive pricing and SLA options for building and scaling their
next-generation Internet applications.?
"Cloud-based storage is particularly beneficial to rapidly growing startups like
NutshellMail.com,? said Mark Schmulen, co-founder of the company (www.nutshellmail.com).
?We enjoy the benefits of infinite scalability while only paying for exactly
what we use. When we started hosting NutshellMail.com with The Planet, they
hadn?t introduced a cloud storage offering, so we had to look elsewhere. We are
excited about The Planet's new storage offering because it gives us improved
performance, enhanced features, and better service at a significantly lower
price."
The Planet will initially offer the new storage cloud product to existing
hosting customers. During the first quarter, the portfolio will provide
opportunities for non-hosted, storage-only customers to reap the benefits of
cloud storage.
The Planet Storage Cloud ? A Superior Approach
With The Planet Storage Cloud, customers gain a broad range of benefits to
satisfy their increasingly diverse and complex storage needs:
Simple pricing ? no hidden fees: With true utility billing, customers pay
only for what they use, including no bandwidth fees for internal transfers and
free uploads to the local node.
Rapid integration: Full support for standard protocols includes NFS, CIFS,
FTP and HTTP, which means customers aren?t locked into or limited by
platform-specific interfaces.
A single system to manage: Many providers require customers to purchase
two separate systems ? one for in-data-center file storage and the other for
cloud ? with neither connected. Now, The Planet eliminates the management
headaches and enables customers to manage both with a single account.
Enterprise-class feature set: The full file system offers a hierarchical
structure with no 5GB size limits offered by other providers. In addition,
customers can take advantage of rich video transcoding capabilities and the
availability of an extensible API for customization.
Policy-driven management: With just one account, customers can set
replication policies for both services under a single account, and then simply
?set it and forget it.?
Centralized reporting: With a single account, The Planet provides
customers with a single report on all file storage and bandwidth usage.
To learn more about The Planet Storage Cloud, visit the Web site at
www.theplanet.com.
About Nirvanix
Nirvanix is the premier global ?Cloud Storage? platform provider. Headquartered
in San Diego, Calif., Nirvanix has built a global cluster of storage nodes
collectively referred to as the Storage Delivery Network (SDN). The SDN
intelligently stores, delivers and processes storage requests in the best
network location, providing the best user experience in the marketplace. With
the ability to store multiple file copies in multiple geographic nodes, the SDN
enables unparalleled data availability for developers, businesses and
enterprises. Nirvanix is privately held and has raised more than $18 million in
funding from world-class investors including Intel Capital. For more information
about the company and its services, visit
www.nirvanix.com.
About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions,
hosting more than 25,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 13.3 million Web
sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of
self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24x7x365 support.
The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology
and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution. With the
best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by
state-of-the-art facilities 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.
For information contact:
Yvonne Donaldson, The Planet
Director, Public Relations
Phone: (281) 714-3602
ydonaldson@theplanet.com
Catherine Leahy
Global Fluency
Phone: (650) 433-4150
cleahy@globalfluency.com
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