Offers Intel's PowerEdge server featuring a Clovertown Quad-Core Processor with 1.2 terabytes of storage; introductory price of $1,099 per month.

The Planet, a dedicated hosting company, today announced the availability of the Dell PowerEdge 2900 based on Intel's new Clovertown quad-core technology. It will be made available in the company's six data centers in both Houston and Dallas.

The Dell PowerEdge 2900 offers quad-core Intel Clovertown 5310 processors, 8GB FBDIMM RAM, 10 hard disk drives configured as 2 – 15K 73GB RAID1, and 8 – 10K 300GB RAID10. The large storage capacity and high-performance processing power are targeted at multiple dynamic websites, high-transaction e-commerce sites, databases and massive multi-player gaming.

Customers may purchase the server through the company's online store, at an introductory price of $1,099 per month.

“With the growth of e-commerce, processing power and storage represent enormous challenges for every business. Huge data stores, graphic-intensive content and high-volume payment processing require powerful server technology. With the Dell PowerEdge 2900, we offer our SMB customers enterprise-level processing power and tremendous storage capacity. Coupled with our network reliability and bandwidth, The Planet provides an on demand IT infrastructure for small businesses that rivals any enterprise organization," said The Planet's Vice President of Marketing, Steve Kahan.