Company to support Panacore's consulting and technical services by its managed hosting architecture.

The Planet, a privately held dedicated hosting company, today announced the addition of Panacore Corporation, a consulting firm specialized in applying new technology and media to business model, to its Northstar managed hosting customer portfolio. The company states that based in Odessa, Texas, Panacore provides internet services, software development and interactive communications to its clients in the petroleum, medical, legal and entertainment industries.

It explains that Panacore provides consulting and technical services through two divisions. The first division deploys Software as a Service (SaaS), Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Managed Services (MSP) and database solutions. The second division supplies customers with digital video production, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), 3-D design services and web site development. It adds that both divisions are supported by its managed hosting architecture.

''Customers consistently select The Planet for our world-class data centers and enterprise-quality network,'' said Steve Kahan, vice president of marketing and product management for The Planet. ''With the Northstar Anticipation Advantage methodology, customers work directly with our team of seasoned experts who recommend the best plan for their business. Together, they build in key process indicators that provide a long-term scalability path to accommodate future growth.''

''At Panacore, our customers include us as part of their company construct,'' said CEO Perry Berryhill. ''They look to us for a wide range of services and expect us to deliver quickly and efficiently. It became clear that adding expensive IT staff didn't help grow the business, and I was focusing more on operations than client development. We needed an IT outsourcing partner with systems that could scale with us, so that's when I turned to The Planet.''