Telx Adds Private Clouds for Colo Customers

Telx wants to make it easier for its colocation customers to run private cloud infrastructure. So today the company announced a strategic alliance with Appcore, which specializes in private cloud services for enterprises. Under the terms of the deal, Appcore’s turnkey private hosted cloud solution will be available to the 1,000 colocation customers in the 17 Telx Cloud Connection Centers (C3) via the Telx Cloud Xchange.

Appcore delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service technology to telcos, data centers, fiber rings, and enterprises to enable Public (service provider) and Private (enterprise) Cloud environments. The company's Appcore Onsite product provides an integrated stack of hardware and software systems designed to be "roll-in ready" for deployment in data centers, accelerating customers' ability to build cloud environments.

"The partnership between Appcore and Telx is an important strategic alliance for enterprise and service providers wanting to deliver the benefits of private cloud to their customers," said Appcore CEO Brian Donaghy. "Telx is a world-class data center operator ideal for the Appcore Onsite Private Cloud solution. Through this alliance, we are able to bring a customer’s branded, private, dedicated cloud service online in 30 days or less with gold global support, enabling them to reap the rewards of cloud computing without the headaches of building it themselves."

Through the alliance, Appcore is able to leverage Telx’s national footprint to deliver solutions rapidly into new markets.

“Telx is proud to add Appcore as a strategic partner to our rapidly expanding Cloud Xchange community of value-added cloud service providers," said Eric Shepcaro, CEO of Telx. "With Appcore’s Onsite Private Cloud solution, customers can accelerate turnkey cloud deployments, achieve rapid time to value and leverage our purpose-built community that delivers the on-demand services, highly available networking and security solutions they require.

"Our C3 Cloud Connection Centers offer the proximity, low latency and flexibility required to optimize Appcore’s innovative mix of private hosted cloud services, securely and cost-effectively,” Shepcaro added.

Telx is a privately held company that operates 17 data center facilities – five in the New York Metro area, two in Chicago, two in Dallas, four in California, (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and two in Santa Clara) and facilities in Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C.