Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 8, 2007 - The Planet privately held dedicated hosting company, will conduct a series of four webinars, to provide system integrators with insight into its new Microsoft Small Business Server offerings.

Each Tuesday during the month through August 28 at 12:00 Noon CST, the company welcomes system integrators to register and learn about how to increase revenue by partnering with The Planet. Representatives will provide a full view into how this solution is far more cost-effective for both system integrators and their customers.

With an estimated 9.2 million SMBs in North America, AMI Partners projects that the market will grow to 9.5 million by 2008.

Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management at The Planet remarked, ''Just as large companies require a rich IT infrastructure, today's small businesses require the same products and tools, but at prices geared to meet their budgets. At The Planet, our core competencies are in managing world-class data centers for our customers, with dedicated servers, Tier-1 bandwidth providers and around-the-clock support. By partnering with system integrators, we're providing a tremendous combination of products and services that will enable these trusted advisors to increase their revenue with a rich Microsoft suite that all SMBs need.''

Working with system integrators, The Planet provides world-class data centers, a 100Gbps+ network with multiple redundant Tier-1 providers, a full range of Dell hardware, as well as 24x7x365 support.

The Planet's network is designed to be without single points of failure, which means the network operates with full redundancy for its core routers and distribution switches. The company also offers carrier diversity, with connections to seven Tier-1 telecommunications providers. As a result, customers never face obstacles or suffer from poor peering connections, sub-optimal routing paths, or congested or oversold networks that limit the power, speed and availability of their sites.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

• High level of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
• Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
• Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
• Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
• Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is a 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, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

To learn more about the August Webinars, please visit: www.theplanet.com/partners/system_integrator_app.asp.

For more information about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.