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Mezeo Takes Part in Cloud Storage Gathering

It seems as if everyone in the IT world today is singing the praises of the “cloud.”  This has been reflected by experts at the Hosting Transformation Summit Europe in London, England desire to have a closer look at cloud storage, easily the fastest growing facet of the cloud computing market.

Bill Pitts, senior Vice President of global sales at Mezeo Software Corp., participated in the panel called “Storage Opportunities: Cloud vs. Conventional.”  Pitts touched on the issue of while traditional NAS and SAN-based storage capacities have continuously expanded, users are increasingly demanding capabilities these solutions simply can’t provide.  Shedding light on how cloud storage has rapidly become a mainstream solution, Pitts says that the cloud is being widely accepted and adopted by end-users and service providers alike.  Aside from helping providers stay relevant in their respective industries, cloud storage also allows these companies to offer new capabilities to their existing clients and essentially expand their market reach utilizing the same solutions.  Pitts highly recommends that service providers and those who are still unsure of the benefits tap into the cloud storage market, and tap into it fast.

Coupled with web services APIs, the Mezeo cloud storage platform enables IT service providers to instantly enter the highly competitive cloud storage sector with their own fully-branded cloud storage solution.  The platform it currently offers is built on four different solutions: Cloud Storage with Web Services APIs, SaaS Cloud, Access Cloud and Personal Cloud Storage.  This suite of services allows customers to completely leverage the type of cloud solution that meets their storage needs best.

The Storage Opportunities panel was held on June 2, 2009, kicking off at 11:40 a.m. at the Hilton Tower Bridge in London, England.  The event was moderated by Simon Robinson, research director of storage at 451 Group.  Joining Pitts in the discussion was Sajai Krishnan of cloud storage startup ParaScale and a co-founder from Nirvanix. 

About the Hosting Transformation Summit Europe

Headed by Tier 1 Research, the Hosting Transformation Summit Europe is a major international  forum made for executives in the data center, web hosting and internet infrastructure markets.  Its overall focus is to deal with the economies of these specific markets and how each can position themselves to succeed.

About Mezeo Corp.

With its headquarters based in Houston, Texas, Mezeo Corp. is an industry leading provider of easily deployable cloud storage platforms.  Its solutions enable managed dedicated server providers, IT hosting providers, SaaS providers and converged telecommunications providers to instantly incorporate a profitable cloud storage service into their existing portfolio.  Mezeo’s cloud solutions include secure file storage, file sharing and collaboration, content tagging and genuine anytime, anywhere access for any Microsoft Windows desktop via Web 2.0 browsers and devices such as the iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile native client.   The company focuses on delivering solutions that are easy to deploy and maintain, highly scalable and secure.  Thanks to the immaculate design of its APIs, Mezeo’s cloud storage solutions are also highly extendible.

The Planet Offers Attractive Discount for Resellers

On February 24, 2009, global IT hosting leader The Planet, announced that it would be running a promotion to help its resellers increase their revenues.  From the 24^th of February through March 31, resellers who buy five or more servers will get discounts of up to 68% per server.  Customers can then use the bulk servers to deliver upgrades to their busier clients who require dedicated server platforms.  These additional severs can also serve as an extended infrastructure for resellers who want to provide value-added or shared offerings such as applications and custom services.

Urvish Vashin, dedicated hosting General Manager for The Planet, says the provider is more than happy to give its loyal customers such a tremendous account.  Vashin notes that web hosting is a highly competitive market and this special promotion will give The Planet’s customers a wide variety of options with an excellent value for their money.  With the bulk discount offerings, resellers have the benefit of upgrading their customers to a dedicated environment in a cost effective manner.

The recent promotion allows resellers to take of advantage of significant discounts on the purchase of five or more high performance servers.  The hardware options include the Celeron 2.0+, the Dual Xeon 2.4, Dual Xeon 2.8 and Dual Xeon 3.2, the Pentium 4.2.4+ and the Xeon 5130.

Discounts on The Planet’s bulk servers are structured as follows:

The price on five to nine servers ranges from $69 to $119 a month per server

The price on 10 to 19 servers are greatly reduced, ranging from $59 to $109 a month per server.

The price on 20 or more servers is the best deal, dropping from $49 to $99 a month per server.

According to The Planet, resellers also have the option of enjoying additional savings by leveraging the provider’s Unmetered Servers promotion, a special offer that was recently announced.  For a limited time, The Planet is giving away its popular unmetered bandwidth solutions for no cost on reduced priced servers.  The packages are regularly priced at $200 for 10 Mbps and $1,800 for 100 Mbps of bandwidth each month.  This is how the deal works – the Dual Xeon 3.2, which is regularly priced at $299, can now be purchased at the discounted price of just $144 per month and comes bundled with 10 Mbps of unmetered bandwidth.   The same server with 100 Mbps of unmetered bandwidth is only $544 a month.  The Planet is expecting its customers to take of advantage while these amazing offers last.

About The Planet

The Planet is a worldwide leading provider of on-demand IT solutions, currently servicing well over 20,000 businesses and 15 million websites.  This company gives its customers a wide variety of options to choose from with dedicated servers in Planet Alpha and managed hosting with Planet Northstar.  The Planet utilizes world-class data centers, the best in server hardware and software tools.  Its enterprise-class network infrastructure allows customers to enjoy that competitive edge needed to succeed in today’s business environment.