The Planet
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Introduction
The Planet is the largest and fastest-growing dedicated server provider in the United States, providing IT solutions for small to medium businesses. Currently home to more than 500 employees, servicing over 20,000 businesses via >48,500 servers located within their seven wholly owned data centers.
Provides
- Dedicated Servers
- Managed Dedicated Servers
- Managed Hosting
- Colocation
- Cloud Storage (no "computing" cloud offering)
Past and present
- GI Partners purchased the controlling interest of The Planet and EV1Servers on May 6th, 2006. Shortly after the alliance was formed, Doug Erwin became the new CEO.
- Launched its managed hosting offering under the 'Planet Northstar' brand in July, 2008.
- Announced Cloud Storage product in partnership with Nirvanix in November, 2008.
- Announced new data center (its 7th) in London in May, 2009.
- Announced new data center (its 8th) in Plano, TX in June, 2009.
Public Brands
Recently (early to mid 2009) The Planet has begun to downplay the 'Alpha' and 'Northstar' brands in favor of a return to just 'The Planet' and 'dedicated servers' or 'managed hosting', including changing their main website to no longer differentiate based on the brand name, and instead only on the type of service being offered (previously the website had mostly split the brands into separate sections).
- Current Brands:
- Planet Alpha, encompassing their dedicated servers
- Planet Northstar, encompassing their managed hosting services
- Orbit, their custom account control panel for existing The Planet accounts and new orders
- Server Command, their custom account control panel for legacy EV1Servers purchased before 2007-01-17
- Retired Brands:
- Server Matrix, for entry-level or budget-priced dedicated servers
- Total Control, for higher-end dedicated servers
- Focus Series, for enterprise-level on-demand mass-server deployments
- Insomnia365, a specialized division for PC-gaming-related dedicated servers
- Cortex, their custom game-server control panel bundled with Insomnia365
- EV1 Servers, which was retired when the two companies merged in favor of The Planet brand
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