Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 25, 2007 - The Planet privately held dedicated hosting company, has issued the financial results for its second quarter ending June 30, 2007. The Planet issues quarterly report updates to provide customers, business partners and prospects with data and progress on the company initiatives.

Kevin Klausmeyer, Chief Financial Officer of The Planet remarked, ”The Planet produced another record revenue quarter, continuing its inception-to-date string of sequential record quarters. We also realized an increase in the quarterly revenue growth rate for the first time since the merger of the predecessor companies. Gross margins once again reached a new quarterly high due to continued synergies and leverage.”

Douglas J. Erwin, Chairman and CEO at The Planet added, ”With solid revenue growth, the addition of numerous new customers and extensions to our existing customer base, we continue to make progress integrating and maturing our company into a single operating business. Investments in our data centers, operations and management team will provide customers with world-class products, solutions and support for managing their businesses. Customer experience remains our first and most important priority as we mark our first anniversary.”

Second Quarter Highlights include:

Record Transactions More than 1,000 new customers leased servers in the company’s world-class data centers.

Executive Appointments: The Planet added two executives in key leadership roles. Johnny K. Vincent joined the company as Chief Accounting Officer, and Steve Reichert was appointed vice president of information technology and operations.

Microsoft Business Unit: The company announced the formation of its Microsoft business unit led by Microsoft veteran Cody Menard. Plans call for The Planet to announce new products and services during the third quarter.

New Products: Extending its product portfolio, the company added enterprise-class NetApp FAS systems storage to its private rack solution. On the hardware line-up, customers gained access to the Dell PowerEdge 840 servers that feature Intel’s Xeon 3040 Conroe dual-core processors. The company also added Cogent unmetered bandwidth as a product available for purchase.

Data Center Investments: The Planet announced plans for a $3 million investment in two new high-performance Cummins generators to provide increased backup capacity and redundancy for its data center infrastructure.

Blog Launch: The company launched its corporate blog, providing customers, prospects, partners and potential new employees with a look into The Planet and its operating culture.

Data Center Video Tour: Providing a view into its operations, the company launched an online video that delivers a look into the inner workings and sophistication of its world-class data centers. The video showcases redundant N+1 power supplies, premium Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, and redundant network operations centers in both Houston and Dallas.

Two New White Papers: The company introduced two white papers by leading industry researchers that validate the strategic business benefits provided by The Planet. The first titled ”The Small Business Transition to Hosted Technology: Costs vs. Benefits” notes that small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using hosted IT achieve stronger results from their technology investments and are typically more satisfied than those who take a do-it-yourself approach. A second report titled ”How SMBs Can Increase eCommerce Revenue and Decrease IT Costs” by Frost Sullivan’s Stratecast Partners’ highlights the emerging requirements for SMBs to succeed at increasing eCommerce revenues while reducing IT costs. The paper points to The Planet’s affordable, next-generation functionality, and increased security and performance, which enable SMBs to compete against their larger, better-funded rivals.

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.

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

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Dublin, Ireland - (The Hosting News) - July 25, 2007 - According to a new report issued by Research and Markets, Internet searching, advertising, and purchasing are all surging. In February 2007 alone, 6.9 billion Internet searches were conducted worldwide, a 19% increase over the same period in 2006.

In addition, online consumer, non-travel spending at U.S. sites reached $102 billion in 2006, a 24% jump from $82.3 billion in 2005. Companies are looking to get a piece of the expanding E-commerce pie, and to build brand awareness among the ever-growing Internet audience.

‘The Future of Search Engine Marketing and Technology’ report details discuss how companies seek to draw many Internet surfers to their websites from search engines. In order to do so, however, businesses must ensure that their websites come up first, or at least on the first page, when consumers type words related to their industry into the two biggest search engines, Google and Yahoo!. Search Engine Optimization — the process of making a site ‘’search engine-friendly” - is probably the most important aspect of Internet marketing.

At the end of the day, company web sites, and the Internet overall, have become an integral part of any solid business plan. It may be the first view visitors have of a business. Businesses, large and small, therefore should update and maintain their websites regularly so visitors will want to revisit and be a steady supply of repeat, and new business.

The author has spoken with some of the most revered experts in the field of Search Engine Technology and Marketing to bring you the most important information that website developers, publishers, and search engine technology companies alike will find informative as well as applicable.

Research and Markets is an international market research and market data resource, with major research publications from most of the leading publishers, consultants and analysts, concerning key industries, top companies, new products and the latest trends. The market research reports and industry newsletters from specialist research firms and niche market analysts, are listed at the same price as the specialist research firms.

To learn more about the report, please visit: www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c62492 .

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New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - July 24, 2007 - Private label Microsoft Exchange hosting company, Intermedia, and hosting industry billing solution firm, ModernBill, have joined in a partnership, to facilitate web host and ISP offerings of hosted Exchange email, along with the necessary billing systems.

According to the company, ModernBill users may start selling private label Exchange 2007 and SharePoint hosting under their own name and brand, managed by Intermedia, in as little as five minutes. ModernBill assists web hosts to bill for Ensim, Plesk, cPanel and Helm-based services. This new partnership is designed to allow web hosts to offer Exchange and SharePoint hosting, 100% under their own brand, using the same ModernBill system to handle billing.

Robert E. Leibholz, VP business development for Intermedia remarked, ”We are extremely excited to partner with a highly-recognized and widely-used billing software provider. By linking the ModernBill software into our private label Exchange hosting service, Web hosts have an extremely easy way to offer Exchange and SharePoint to their customers - instantly.”

Jon McCarrick, VP sales for ModernGigabyte offered, ”We have partnered with Intermedia following strong demand from customers, who have been asking for a proven and simple way to offer hosted Exchange. As the leader in billing solutions for the hosting industry, we are happy to help our customers develop new revenues and deeper, churn-reducing relationships with their customers.”

Intermedia’s private label Exchange and SharePoint hosting offering is designed as a source of additional recurring revenue for both Windows and Unix hosts. All types of hosting providers are offering Microsoft Exchange hosting to customers, who are in need in of a world-class business email solution with wireless capabilites and a world-class web mail interface.

Microsoft Exchange as a hosted service is an extremely popular offering, growing at over 39% annually, according to Microsoft. Intermedia offers a private label hosted Exchange service that allows Web hosts and ISPs to sell Exchange under their own brand, without having to build and manage the entire environment themselves. Intermedia’s private label partners completely own the customer relationship, and Intermedia manages everything else, including all licensing, hardware and maintenance.

Intermedia’s private label hosted Exchange service is flexible and can scale from an instant setup to a fully-integrated implementation using Intermedia’s APIs. With over 2000 partners globally, Intermedia’s private label program is the world’s oldest, largest and most robust in the Exchange and SharePoint market.

ModernBill by ModernGigabyte, Inc., offers an automated and integrated billing solution for Web Hosing Provider, including a modern interface and web capability. It can create and process invoices, batch charges with a variety of popular merchant gateways, and report many important accounting functions. It includes integrated order forms so that customers can easily use products and it is integrated with registrars for automated domain registration. ModernBill offers billing solutions for over 15 control panels including Ensim Pro for Linux 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and Ensim Pro for Windows 4.0.

Intermedia is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, providing a comprehensive package of the highest uptime, 24×7 support, and technical knowledge. In the hosting business since 1995 and hosting Microsoft Exchange since 2000, Intermedia offered the first Exchange hosting solution specifically for small and medium businesses with enterprise-strength technology for low monthly fees, with no up-front investment. Intermedia is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, with 24×7 support. The company offers a variety of Exchange hosting and web hosting plans, from the smallest businesses with three users and upwards, to substantial mid-sized organizations.

To learn more about ModernBill, please visit: www.modernbill.com.

For more information about Intermedia, please visit: www.intermedia.net.

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Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - July 24, 2007 - Management software for unified communications and collaborative infrastructure firm, Ensim Corporation, will demonstrate the capabilities of its most recent product release, including Unify Shared Edition - version 4.0, at the ongoing HostingCon 2007, currently taking place in Chicago.

Ensim Unify Shared Edition is a single, centralized software application that simplifies the day-to-day burden of activating, configuring and managing a service provider’s Unified Communications and Collaboration infrastructure. The new version allows service providers to provision and manage Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0 in a wide range of deployment scenarios, such as on HMC 3.5, HMC 4.0, and homegrown infrastructure.

HMC 4.0
Ensim Unify Shared Edition 4.0 extends Microsoft’s technology and allows service providers to centrally provision and activate subscribers with Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and existing Ensim Unify modules for popular applications such as BlackBerry and Siemens OpenScape, among others.

HMC 3.5
Service providers with an existing HMC 3.5 platform can utilize Unify to deploy Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0 on their existing infrastructure without the need to upgrade to HMC 4.0.

Homegrown Hosted Exchange Deployments
Service providers currently offering hosted Exchange on a homegrown platform can install Unify 4.0 on their infrastructure and easily deploy any of the Ensim Unify modules as hosted services without incurring significant costs.

Ensim will also demonstrate its Unify Managed Service Provider Edition for MSPs supporting mid to large-sized enterprise infrastructures, on or off premise. Unify Managed provides the necessary tools to quickly and easily deploy and manage next-generation applications and devices for customers with a single extensible platform while simplifying the ongoing management of users and remote administration. Ensim Unify Shared Edition 4.0 is immediately available for use.

HostingCon is the definitive conference and tradeshow for the hosting industry. HostingCon 2007 is currently being held through July 25th, at the Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Hosting professionals around the world gather to learn more about the industry, network with their peers and vendors, and help grow businesses. HostingCon is produced by Interjuncture Corp., an Aurora, Ill.-based technology conference producer.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is a provider of management software for unified communications and collaboration infrastructure. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft. For more information, contact Ensim at 1-877-693-6746 or 1-408-496-3700 outside the United States.

To learn more about the new release, please visit: www.ensim.com/products/unify.

For more information about HostingCon, please visit: www.hostingcon.com.

To learn more about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

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Carlsbad, California - (The Hosting News) - July 24, 2007 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has entered into an agreement with Search Engine Optimization Inc., providing a mutually advantageous relationship in which clients on both sides can benefit from search engine placement opportunities and local server hosting priorities.

Garry Grant, President and CEO of SEO Inc. remarked, ”We’re excited to be able to provide our customers with the most comprehensive Web hosting and search engine optimization services. With our combined efforts, clients not only achieve greater visibility online but also can benefit from Rackspace’s 100 percent network uptime guarantee.”

Search Engine Optimization Inc. is an integrated search engine marketing company that specializes in achieving high rankings for clients on the Internet’s major search engines. SEO Inc.’s goal is to create highly targeted optimization campaigns geared towards unique online business objectives. Leveraging more than 40 years of combined Internet marketing experience, SEO Inc.’s certified search engine specialists have developed and honed a suite of highly effective, proprietary optimization and marketing methodologies that have placed more than 300 leading corporations in the top rankings of the world’s leading search engines.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 10,000 customers across seven data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

To learn more about Search Engine Optimization Inc., please visit: www.seoinc.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

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