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Web Hosting Provider The Planet Adds Rice University to Sand Castle
March 9, 2010 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced that Rice University students engaged in entrepreneurial research and development will receive free access to 50 servers through The Planet's Sand Castle project. By eliminating technology costs, Sand Castle supports individuals with great ideas and visions by providing free servers for a full year. Through Sand Castle, The Planet’s goal is to do its part to enable job creation in the midst of a jobless economy recovery.
Students in Rice's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business will be among the first to benefit from the free servers. The Jones School ranked fifth in the U.S. in graduate entrepreneurship in a 2009 survey by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
"Rice MBA alumni have an incredible track record in entrepreneurship," said William Glick, dean of the Jones School. "An impressive 22 percent of our graduates have started one or more companies - most in Houston and the total estimated revenues from those companies is about $1.5 billion annually. The Planet's invaluable donation is not only an investment in the future of Rice's entrepreneurs, it's also an investment in Houston's economy."
“We created Sand Castle with the single goal of enabling individuals to begin projects that may have not been possible without the free technology we’re providing,” said Douglas J. Erwin, chairman and chief executive officer of The Planet. “In turn, we hope they will create new jobs. We have eight data centers and more than 50,000 servers with enough excess capacity to help capable individuals from Rice and from around the country who are engaged in entrepreneurial endeavors."
Kamran Khan, vice provost for information technology at Rice, said students in disciplines other than business may also take advantage of the free servers offered by The Planet.
“There are cross-disciplinary design projects within many of the schools and institutes at Rice, and they focus on everything from computer gaming to global health technologies," Khan said. "Education is Rice's top priority, and the additional server resources from The Planet can help us provide a richer experience for Rice students."
The Planet encourages interested individuals and company to evaluate the Sand Castle project criteria and apply online at http://www.theplanet.com/sand-castle.
About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 18.5 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.
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