The Planet Acquires Services Firm Touch Support

The Planet, the world’s largest privately held dedicated hosting company, today announced the acquisition of Touch Support, LLC (www.touchsupport.com ). Based in Lafayette, Ind., the company provides server administration management services to its global customer base. Financial terms were not disclosed.

With this acquisition, The Planet will introduce a new portfolio of advanced services for dedicated hosting customers who are looking to optimize their business results without relinquishing control of their IT infrastructures. The new advanced services offerings will provide customers with the ability to select advanced services from a modular suite of solutions. Touch Support’s current portfolio includes server administration, technical support, security audits and server hardening, server virtualization, migration, monitoring and managed backups. The company also provides hourly server administration support for customers looking for one-time or custom requests. Read more

Red Herring Names Parallels One of North America’s 100 Top Private Companies

Parallels, Inc., a leading provider of virtualization, datacenter automation and SaaS software, was named to the Red Herring 100 North America, which honors the top 100 privately-held technology companies.

According to recent IDC market data, Parallels is the world’s second-largest virtualization solutions provider. It produces: the #1 desktop virtualization solution, Parallels Desktop for Mac, which was the first to enable Apple computer users to run Windows and Mac OS X simultaneously; the #1 container-based server virtualization solution, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers; and the world’s #1 control panel, Parallels Plesk. Parallels software powers more than 250,000 servers and 1,100,000 desktops, and services more than 10,000,000 end-users every day. Read more

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Coupon Code – Omnis Networks $25 Discount

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GoDaddy – Celebrate the Indy 500 with 20% OFF

GoDaddy has come out with yet another offer. They are giving 20% OFF on order of $100 or more. With this offer you can buy domain names, hosting, site builders, email and much more! This offer is not applicable on premium domains, bulk domain purchases, discounted domain products, discounted memberships or maintenance plans; additional disk space and bandwidth renewals, custom page layouts, posters or gift cards.

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This special offer expires Monday, May 26, 2008 at midnight (Pacific Time).

Hotel Chain Hyatt to be hosted on AT&T Servers

International Hotel Chain, Hyatt website to be hosted on Telecommunications provider AT&T servers.

Telecommunications provider AT&T announced on Friday it has signed a three-year hosting and managed services contract with international hotel chain, Global Hyatt.

AT&T will first provide centralized hosting services for Hyatt.com and for Hyatt’s property-management system. Throughout the next two years, Hyatt and AT&T will collaborate to migrate many other applications to the new hosting environment. Read more

Microsoft’s CEO – Yahoo Bid Was ‘Never Strategic’

After all the Microsoft take over bid over Yahoo drama had ended, Microsoft Chief Executive officer Steve Ballmer said on Friday that buying Yahoo was not a strategy in itself, and dropping the bid meant it now had $50 billion to spend on other acquisitions. Read more

Web Hosting and Internet News Destination Launched By Gawkwire

Gawkwire Web Hosting News today launched its freshly designed Web hosting and Internet news portal, offering breaking news, features, how-to’s, interviews, video stories, and more, updated 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The site’s editorial content, produced by a team of award-wining and widely published technology journalists, offers a new perspective on Internet news and delivers stories from a variety of beats, including Web hosting, Business, SEO/SEM, Domain names, Web design, Events, and Promotions. Read more

3FN Marketing Announces Increase in Affiliate Members

3FN Marketing, a pay per click advertising online network and ppc webmaster affiliate program run by dedicated server provider 3FN, announces recent significant increase in affiliate members.

3FN Marketing proudly announces its recent significant increase in affiliate members that, beyond doubt, demonstrates the excellence of 3FN Marketing webmaster affiliate program services and the profitability of provided webmaster affiliate opportunities. Currently 3FN Marketing’s webmaster affiliate program has proven to be the most profitable and successful for thousands of webmasters all over the world. Read more

SoftLayer Integrates API with Plesk; Announces Partnership with rackAID

SoftLayer announced today that it had completed the first level of integration between its API and the Plesk utility for managing server infrastructure.

Plesk users can now use a single interface to seamlessly access all SoftLayer management tools. Nathan Day, Chief Technology Officer of SoftLayer, will be presenting this new feature at the third annual Parallels Summit in Washington, D.C., on May 19 and 20, 2008. Read more