May 21, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Dedicated hosting provider The Planet (theplanet.com) announced on Wednesday it has acquired Touch Support (touchsupport.com), which provides server administration management services to a global customer base. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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This latest acquisition will enable The Planet to introduce a new range of advanced services for dedicated hosting customers seeking to optimize their business results while still maintaining control of their IT infrastructures. These new services will also enable customers to choose advanced services from a modular suite of solutions.
Touch Support line of services include server administration, technical support, security audits and server hardening, server virtualization, migration, monitoring and managed backups. The company also offers hourly server administration support for customers looking for one-time or custom requests.
As the complexities of managing an IT infrastructure grow, The Planet is seeing an increase in the number of dedicated hosting customers requesting the company to provide additional services, says Douglas J. Erwin, chairman and CEO.
"These companies entrust their businesses and their livelihoods with The Planet, and they come to us for our enterprise-class network and six world-class data centers," says Erwin. "With the acquisition of Touch Support, we can extend our portfolio to include high-quality advanced services that enable us to help them grow their businesses."
The Planet says it will announce its Advanced Services portfolio sometime during the third quarter.
The Planet recently hosted the Houston Techxans quarterly CIO speakers forum at its world headquarters in Houston, Texas on May 15.
