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By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com
October 21, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Dedicated managed hosting provider The Planet (www.theplanet.com) announced on Tuesday it has launched a new Alpha Advanced Services (www.theplanet.com/alpha-advanced-services/) offering that provides customers with managed backup for dedicated server data.
The product is the fourth solution to be added to the Alpha Advanced Services portfolio, which includes Alpha Server Monitoring, Alpha Server Security and Alpha Server Administration.
In July, the company launched its Planet Alpha Dedicated Servers and Planet Northstar Managed Hosting divisions, enabling customers to choose from self-managed dedicated hosting, self-managed with optional services or a fully managed hosted solution.
With the new backup solution, The Planet's team of dedicated hosting professionals manages and restores customers' data backup, continuously monitoring daily backups and automatically correcting issues or failure.
The Planet will also notify customers when they near the limits of their existing storage space.
Alpha Managed Backup stores customer data on a high-performance, fault-tolerant storage platform, backed by The Planet's world-class infrastructure and SAS 70 Type II data centers.
In March, The Planet added a new advanced backup server, which includes 6TB of capacity in an enterprise-ready RAID5 configuration.
"There's an almost-daily report of data loss at companies around the world, which can easily lead to a loss of revenue, as well as significant reputation damage," says Todd Mitchell, The Planet's general manager for advanced services. "With Alpha Managed Backup, customers gain peace of mind by leaving the management of their data protection to a team of seasoned professionals. Our dedicated Advanced Services team ensures that customer servers are consistently backed up, safeguarding against critical data loss."
Priced at $40 for 20GB of storage space, Alpha Managed Backup also offers additional backup space at $1 per GB, available in 20GB increments. The solution includes five data restores per month, with a one-time fee for additional restores.
Self-managed solutions in the Planet Alpha storage and data protection portfolio include Data Protection Servers with continuous data protection and bare-metal recovery, R1Soft CDPServer software, which can be layered on to any server, EVault Backup that uses EVault software, and Network Backup, which provides backup and archiving space available directly to customer applications and tools.
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Comment by Anonymous on Monday, July 20, 2009
We have been using Alpha Advanced Services for some years now, and now we are just fed up about the long respons time and many unqualified staff working there.
Stay away from the planets bad services....