The Planet Receives 39 Red Hat Certifications; Employees Across a Wide Range of Departments Are Certified.DALLAS -- The Planet(SM) today announced that 39 employees, representing a majority of departments across the company, have received Red Hat certifications. Of the 39 employees achieving RHCT RHCT Red Hat Certified Technician (Red Hat Certified Technician) status, 33 received the prestigious RHCE RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer RHCE Rhesus Blood Group, CcEe Antigens (Red Hat Certified Engineer) certification. Company wide, The Planet now has 47 RHCTs, of which 40 are RHCEs. "With 60 percent of The Planet's customers using the Red Hat platform, this level of certification further demonstrates our commitment to support our customers' technology," said Pamela Houston, course and training coordinator at The Planet. "We have had a long and mutually beneficial Adj. 1. mutually beneficial - mutually dependent interdependent, mutualist dependent - relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed; "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture" relationship with Red Hat and look forward to continuing and expanding that relationship." One unique factor in the Red Hat certifications is that the recently certified employees do not all come from our technical support team. Staff members within departments such as abuse, customer care, product development, information systems, provisioning, sales, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , Internet data center, security and support all participated in classes and achieved certification. "Rarely do companies have so many certifications across such varied departments and levels. In fact, this recent achievement puts The Planet in the top five hosting companies in terms of number of Red Hat certifications," said Michael Sutphen, hosting provider account executive for Red Hat. "The Planet should be very proud of its employees and their accomplishments." "With this milestone, The Planet has made RHCE a key part of their strategy for support of Linux-based managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality ," said Peter Childers, vice president of Global Learning Services at Red Hat. "RHCEs can play a key role in demanding client services contexts, assuring excellent 24x7 technical services and support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of RHEL for 7 years after its release. for The Planet's customers." The Planet conducted the classes with in-house technical trainers including Greg Bock Noun 1. bock - a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring bock beer lager beer, lager - a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally , Michael Montgomery Michael Montgomery (born August 18, 1983) is a defensive tackle on the Green Bay Packers NFL team. He was drafted in the sixth round of the NFL draft in 2005 by the Packers. On December 16, 2006 he was placed on injured reserve. External links
Employees began internal training classes in August to prepare for the rigorous examination process that ended in early December. About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. with satellite offices spanning the globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com. About The Planet With over 10 years experience, The Planet continues to be one of the fastest growing Web hosting companies in the world. Delivering enterprise level hosting solutions to the SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. and SME (1) (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) See SMB. (2) (Subject Matter Expert) An individual who is well-versed in the policies and procedures of a particular department or division. marketplace, The Planet offers the ideal blend of affordability, simplicity and reliability. The Planet's dedicated server product lines offer extreme value through a broad range of turnkey solutions. Services also include co-location, Internet access, e-mail and business continuance solutions. Customers benefit from value-added features such as advanced security services, proactive server monitoring, database administration, managed data storage, load balancing, clustering, and virtual private networks, all managed through Orbit(SM), The Planet's customer portal. For additional information, visit www.theplanet.com. |
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