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The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced its new 'Lowest Price on The Planet' promotion, the most aggressive offer in its history. To encourage companies using other hosting organizations to consider The Planet, the process is simple: bring an invoice from a competitor, and The Planet will beat the offer on price, with an equivalent configuration for either self-managed dedicated or fully managed hosting. Also included in the promotion is one month of free hosting, free migration assistance with relocation from a competitor, and a free month of monitoring with reaction, one of its Alpha Advanced Services offerings.

Managed hosting provider iland Internet Solutions (www.iland.com) announced on Tuesday it has selected AboveNet (www.above.net) as one of its top two Tier1 IP providers to connect the iland Virtual Data Centers, located in Los Angeles, Boston, Reston, Virginia and Dallas. AboveNet has provided iland with additional 4 Gbps IP network connectivity for each of its virtual data centers, providing iland and its customers with further redundancy, flexibility and cost effectiveness. "We continue to invest in our network construction to offer a broad array of high-bandwidth fiber optic connectivity solutions," says MaryBeth Nance, executive director of business development and marketing at AboveNet. "We provide reliability and scalability to meet iland's highest requirements for data center connectivity, IT virtualization, and consolidation and optimization services. By delivering a bundled, managed solution to iland within all four of its virtual data center markets, we also help control iland's network operating costs while enabling fast and scalable deployments."

eUKhost.com, a well-known UK based web-hosting provider, today launched their new range of Windows Virtual Private Servers powered by Microsoft's latest virtualization platform, Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based server virtualization technology that is a key feature of Windows Server 2008 and provides a reliable and highly available server virtualization platform. The company states that Hyper-V provides scalability and superior performance by supporting features like guest multi-processing support and 64-bit guest and host support; reliability and security through its hypervisor architecture; flexibility and manageability by supporting features like quick migration of virtual machines from one physical host to another, and integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

A perfect and flawless IT infrastructure needs the proper and secure setup of the resources such as hardware, software, storage and other applications. It can be done only by designing the infrastructure in a systematic way.

Here are a few of the most compelling causes for a business to contract out the housing as well as management of its computing facilities.

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Data center operator and managed hosting provider Peak 10 (www.peak10.com) announced on Tuesday it has signed an agreement where it will house retail reporting services provider dunnhumbyUSA within its Cincinnati facility.

http://www.webhosting.uk.com, a provider of Shared, Reseller, VPS and Dedicated Server hosting solutions, today announced that it is now providing Windows shared as well as reseller hosting on Windows 2008 server platform. Windows Server 2008 is the most recent release of Microsoft Windows' server line of operating systems. It delivers valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the core Windows Server operating system in the form of new web tools, virtualization technologies, security enhancements, and management utilities that help save time, reduce costs, and provide a solid foundation for information technology (IT) infrastructure.

Web host HostDime has opened a new customer support facility in Orlando, Florida, USA, it was announced recently. The company, a provider of "secure managed hosting services that cater to a range of clients" is moving into "1,500 square feet of Class A office space" on the campus of the University of Central Florida (UCF). The move comes as a response to the company's growing customer support activity and increased support staff.

Web hosting provider, Spiderhost, has entered into a partnership with Smart City, for Spiderhost's expertise in hosting solutions. Spiderhost will fully manage all web hosting and e-mail activity for Smart City's 1,000-plus hosting clients.

We are constantly putting ourselves in our clients' position and keep in mind that servers are only hardware. We must provide an added-value that sets us aside from the competition. This is where the difference of other providers is clearly demonstrated, we are very confident that a solid backup solution will continue to provide that trust and value clients are used to with our product portfolio," said Gerardo Sandoval, CEO and General Manager for Private IP Service, parent company of Iguana Hosting.

Arman Khalili, CEO of UnitedLayer remarked, "Despite the macroeconomic uncertainty, we have experienced our second consecutive profitable quarter and hold a positive outlook for the remainder of 2009. We remain on target to have a profitable 2009 and have no additional needs for outside funding. Increasing demand from existing and prospective customers has significantly increased utilization of our facilities. With the continued rise in demand for scalable, secure and reliable Internet infrastructure services, we have seen tremendous growth this past year across our service offerings."

Web hosting provider NaviSite (www.navisite.com) announced on Wednesday it will be providing managed dedicated server and virtual dedicated server solutions to Indian digital media and marketing agency Webchutney (www.webchutney.com) through its dedicated hosting line of business.

"FatCow was founded on the idea that if you treat customers well, they'll return the favor," explains Paul Bukhovko, Marketing Manager at FatCow. "FatCow's customers are engaged and give us great feedback. By listening to their advice, we're able to make real improvements. For example, we've been able to increase customer satisfaction with our support team by 16% since this time last year."

Expected to draw nearly 8,000 attendees, the Web 2.0 Expo is the industry's leading conference and trade show for those who mold the "next-generation" Web, including designers, developers, entrepreneurs, business strategists and product managers. Conference topics include Web operations, search and vertical search, social networks and identity, and experience-driven product strategy.

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We take a regular look through new job postings on our associated site Web Hosting Jobs (www.webhostingjobs.com) and post a summary here in the WHIR news section incorporating some of the newest openings. Lithium Technologies (Emeryville, California) Last week, Lithium Technologies (www.lithium.com), a company that develops solutions for building online communities, posted two openings - a demand generation manager (a marketing position), and a chief systems architect. Both jobs are located in Emeryville, California. The company posted a third listing for an online moderator, which would be handled remotely.