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Mezolink, a premier cloud provider serving the enterprise, healthcare, financial services and manufacturing industries, opted for Telx as its colocation and connectivity partner in New York, Chicago, and Miami.

Telx is a well-known interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets. Mezolink, through the carrier-neutral data centers of Telx in these three urban markets are able to keep uptime and availability high for customers leveraging its online backup service, Mezobak.

"Mezolink had a client-driven need to diversify our data center colocation plan to ensure the highest availability to our business continuity customers. Telx offered us the key locations and carrier-neutral model we required from a collocation and connectivity partner," said Greg Livesay, Director of Marketing at Mezolink, in a press release. "With Telx, we can leverage our ISP connectivity agreements with 20+ carriers in each data center, giving us the choice and flexibility we need to keep our online backup services running quickly and securely. We also like the possibility of leveraging Telx's other value-added services and strategic locations in the future."

Industry-leading carrier choice in all 15 data center locations is provided by Telx, as a cloud provider connectivity partner. Cloud providers can colocate servers and other hosting infrastructure, select their preferred network providers, and manage their own infrastructure in a secure and reliable environment. The most flexibility for virtually any cloud computing deployment model is provided by the unmatched connectivity alternatives within Telx's carrier and cloud-neutral facilities.

"Telx welcomes Mezolink to our expanding cloud marketplace," said Brad Hokamp, Chief Marketing Officer for Telx, in a press release. "Telx's colocation and interconnection solutions enable Mezolink to improve the reliability, security, and latency of their on-demand infrastructure while lowering the cost of entering new markets."

In related news, Telx has deployed the company’s Ethernet Exchange service at its data centers in Miami, Dallas and Los Angeles.

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