Ecom Expands Relationship with The Planet



April 21 2005 Ecom PPOcom Inc announced that it has enhanced its contract with The Planet one of the world's fastest growing managed hosting providers to include a full scale continuance center as part of the business continuance services Business continuance services offer companies mirrored working environments for their staff in the event of a disaster As part of these services the Planet provides Ecom with completely furnished office space redundancy in power network connectivity security and telephone and computer networks Ecom currently operates a secure server cage within The Planet's Dallas datacenter This arrangement is just another example of Ecoms commitment to protecting the services we provide our clients said L Cade Havard Chairman and CEO we can now ensure that our operations and systems will be recovered quickly and efficiently in the event of a disaster and that our workflow remains absolutely seamless The Planet's Business Continuance Center consists of 3500 square feet of flexible space equipped with cubicles conference rooms computer workstations training and break rooms secure power and phone and network connectivity The Center is supplied by both UPS and generator power while 11 TierOne carriers provide redundant network connectivity The Center also offers datacenter redundancies and a private internal network with firewall and domain controllers It is designed to be fully operational within hours of any catastrophic event In today's informationcritical economy it's simply not sufficient to rely on data backup and remote monitoring for disaster recovery said Peter Pathos Chief Executive Officer of The Planet When a company's physical infrastructure is compromised for any reason its employees must be relocated its network must be reestablished and its customers must see minimal interruption in service Pathos added that The Planet's industryleading facilities 247 monitoring services and builtin redundancies make it well positioned for recovery and business continuance services By partnering with The Planet we can now move our employees at a moment's notice to a fully operational recovery center and maintain an uninterrupted workflow for our client base stated Rachel H Graham Ecom's President and Chief Operating Officer About Ecom PPOcom Inc Ecom is dedicated to helping insurance companies and smaller businesses increase their profitability and shareholder value with a revolutionary approach to PPO management Ecom has a proven performance record of taking complex operational technical andor financial issues and converting them into realworld costeffective solutions Ecom provides total administration of the Virtual PPOSM network along with the most sophisticated Internet tools available to assist in tracking medical claims throughout the payment process Ecoms client base consists of individual or small group health insurance carriers and selffunded employer groups that have saved millions of dollars per year by choosing Ecom For more information visit httpwwwecomppocom or contact us via email at email protected from spam bots About The Planet The Planet Internet Services Inc is a fastgrowing profitable provider of managed hosting and Internet infrastructure services for businesses and organizations that require entrylevel to enterprise IT support The Planets valueadded services include advanced server monitoring database administration managed data storage security products virtual private networks and backup services Colocation services are available for those customers desiring to use their own Web servers and rely on the Companys advanced faulttolerant facilities and network infrastructure The Planets Server Matrix Division provides entrylevel and small business dedicated servers and colocation offerings coupled with managed services and a customer support portal For further information visit wwwtheplanetcom or wwwservermatrixcom



Ecom Expands Relationship with The Planet