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Watch these metrics. The Planet touts new water-cooled chiller from Turbine Air.

I'm always looking for examples of things that businesses are doing to make their data centers more energy-efficient. This one comes from The Planet, an IT hosting company from Texas. When it built out a new 106,000-square-foot data center in Plano its eighth, The Planet opted for...

Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Turbine, Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-20

The Sierra Club's "Save The Planet" Knowledge Cards 1.05 (Mobile)

This quiz application from the Sierra Club provides tips for saving energy & ecosystems, water & wildlife. Here are significant ways we all can help overcome pollution and energy consumption, such as using a ceiling fan, the water-saving value of a shower vs. a bath, and the value of recycled...

Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Card, Mobile, Knowledge, Sierra Club, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales

Software downloads 2009-03-30

Why IT Hosting from The Planet is the Smart Decision

SMBs are increasingly turning to IT hosting as a more cost-effective way to access best-in-class infrastructure. What are the financial and operational benefits of IT hosting? Which type of IT hosting - data center collocation, dedicated server hosting, managed servers, managed hosting - is the best fit for an organization's...

Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Information Technology, Hosting, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-01-16

Flipping the switch saves The Planet about $140K annually

Flipping the switch saves The Planet about $140K annuallyOr....One could just cool and light one area at a time.... instead of the entire building. With $140K in savings, they could buy a score of small standing AC units. If you are working late, then you grab one and...

Tags: Data centers, AC Unit, The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., A/C

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

Flipping the switch saves The Planet about $140K annually

(Updated to clarify air-conditioning policy.) The results of The Planet's "lights out" pilot are in: By adopting a workday-hours lights-on policy and shutting off the lights after hours, the hosting company is saving roughly $140,000 per year across its six data centers in Houston and Dallas. The...

Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Leveraging Capex-Free Managed Hosting (Yankee Group)

SMBs have used IT strategies to compete effectively with both large enterprises and other small companies. But as SMBs adopt more technology, they struggle with managing it. High capital costs and expertise requirements are formidable barriers for SMBs, often forcing them to use outdated infrastructure. IT hosting presents an...

Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., The Yankee Group, Information Technology, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme

White papers 2008-06-18

The Planet's tips for cutting data center power use

Hosting company The Planet is doing its part to save, er, the planet. The company earlier this year revealed the results of a six-month trial to cut its power consumption, while increasing efficiency -- two goals that might seem diametrically opposed. The experiment was conducted in one...

Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Data Center, Computer, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-04-10

TransScriber 1.7 (Windows)

TransScriber is a small dictation tool that lets you pause, rewind, control the speed, create bookmarks and otherwise navigate around the timeline of your recording, all while you transcribe the words spoken into your favorite word processor. TransScriber runs in the background and can be controlled with convenient shortcuts while...

Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Bookmark, TransScriber, Word Processors, Microsoft Windows, Process Improvement, Productivity, Software, Operating Systems, Quality, Business Operations

Software downloads 2006-03-17

Additional Resources

Verizon fixes P2P problem - on its network at least

Verizon fixes P2P problem - on its network at leastnice to hear!I approve of their position, but since I'm not on their network however I will keep my VPN account up. Providers like the ones below may be some customers only options to bypass P2P controls on ISP's.http://www.strongvpn.comhttp://www.blacklogic.comhttp://www.bananahosting.comMany...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Peer to peer (P2P), NETWORKING, Network technology, P2P, network, P4P, Verizon Communications Inc., Internet Service Provider, P2P problem, cable

Discussion threads 2008-03-14

U.S. Postal Service to Netflix: You're killing us on labor

U.S. Postal Service to Netflix: You're killing us on laborOf course the post office is inefficientThat's why postal prices keep increasing. Their workforce is overpaid, that's why costs are so high, but I guess it is easier to blame your customers. If customers are causing an increase in...

Tags: NetFlex, U.S. Congress, U.S. Postal Service, NetFlix Inc., mailer, post-Office

Discussion threads 2007-12-05

Microsoft-Novell: What a long, strange year it's been

Microsoft-Novell: What a long, strange year it's beenVERDICT: Microsoft's cynical patent FUD campaign is a DISMAL FAILURE.Let's be honest here. Microsoft doesn't want to "interoperate" with Linux. Microsoft wants to EMBRACE AND DESTROY Linux. Fortunately, as is often the case when Microsoft gives the "bear hug of death" and then...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, IT Consulting, Microsoft Corp., Linux Distro, Linux, Novell Inc., FUD, patent

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

Details in tech journalism - a Sun Shiny example

Last Thursday Sun issued two sequential press releases signed by the same spokesman. The first, under the title "Sun Expands Solaris/SPARC CMT Innovation Leadership", announced the widespread availability of the 4GB DIMMS in the UltraSPARC T1 line, the corresponding megahertz rate increase to 1.4Ghz, progress on the "Neptune" TCP/IP...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2007-01-22