CyrusOne National IX and Metro IX platforms offer enterprise
connectivity to Microsoft’s online services, including Microsoft Azure
and Office365
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global data center solutions provider CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE) today
announced an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to offer Microsoft Azure
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ExpressRoute within all of the company’s data center locations via the
CyrusOne National IX (Internet Exchange) and Metro IX platforms. The
agreement provides CyrusOne customers with unrivaled connectivity to
Microsoft Azure in the markets of Austin, Dallas, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Houston, Phoenix, Sterling (Northern Virginia), and San Antonio, among
others.
"We are truly excited to become an ExpressRoute partner with direct
access to Microsoft services for our enterprise customers across our
National IX and Metro IX interconnectivity platforms,” said Josh
Snowhorn, Vice President and General Manager of Interconnection,
CyrusOne. “The cloud economy is growing rapidly, and this relationship
enables us to support our customers’ hybrid colocation and cloud needs
with a tremendous partner. In conjunction with our Megaport partnership
and their elastic connectivity services, CyrusOne now offers unrivaled
enterprise connectivity to the Microsoft ecosystem.”
“We are pleased to collaborate with CyrusOne to make it easier for our
mutual customers to access Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and CRM Online,”
said Ross Ortega, Principle Product Manager, Azure Networking,
Microsoft. “Many enterprises require more secure, more reliable and
lower latency connections, and together we will enable even more
enterprises to take advantage of the scalability and cost-savings of the
Microsoft Cloud platform.”
offers a growing collection of integrated cloud services to build,
deploy, and manage enterprise services faster and more efficiently. The
ExpressRoute agreement enables CyrusOne’s enterprise customers to avoid
the public Internet by offering private and secure connectivity to Azure
for greater reliability, faster speeds, lower latencies, and more
enhanced security than typical Internet connections. ExpressRoute has
virtual cross-connections through the CyrusOne National IX and Metro IX
platforms to expand these capabilities, enabling companies to easily
integrate and scale existing data center and cloud strategies to
establish robust hybrid cloud environments.
The CyrusOne
National IX marries low-cost connectivity with the massively scaled
data centers for which the company is known. It virtually links more
than a dozen of CyrusOne’s enterprise facilities in multiple
metropolitan markets, so customers can mix and match data centers to
create their own production or disaster recovery platforms, or both, and
access virtually every carrier, content company, and cloud provider
across its ecosystem.
Globally, CyrusOne operates more than 30 carrier-neutral data
center facilities across the United States, Europe, and Asia,
CyrusOne provides customers with the flexibility and scale to match
their specific IT growth needs. CyrusOne facilities are engineered to
include the power-density infrastructure required to deliver excellent
availability, including an architecture with the highest available power
redundancy (2N).
Renowned for exceptional service, building enduring customer
relationships, and high customer satisfaction levels, CyrusOne serves
nine of the Fortune 20 and more than 170 of the Fortune 1000 among its
more than 940 customers.
For more information about CyrusOne, call 1-855-908-3662 or visit www.cyrusone.com.
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About CyrusOne
CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE) specializes in highly reliable enterprise-class,
carrier-neutral data center properties. The company provides
mission-critical data center facilities that protect and ensure the
continued operation of IT infrastructure for more than 940 customers,
including nine of the Fortune 20 and more than 170 of the Fortune 1000
or equivalent-sized companies.
CyrusOne’s data center offerings provide the flexibility, reliability,
and security that enterprise customers require, and are delivered
through a tailored, customer-service-focused platform designed to foster
long-term relationships. CyrusOne’s National IX platform provides robust
connectivity options to drive revenue, reduce expenses, and improve
service quality for enterprises, content, and telecommunications
companies. CyrusOne is committed to full transparency in communication,
management, and service delivery throughout its more than 30 data
centers worldwide.
Contacts
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Jake Smith, 513.671.3811