Cyrus Networks LLC announced that its Houston West colocation facility is housing and enabling the first-ever enterprise high performance computing (HPC) Cloud solution from Dell and R Systems. The two companies have teamed together to establish a working 'project partner' alliance, offering customized HPC solutions for clients. Leveraging dedicated, secure and powerful computing resources for periods between one day and one year, the enterprise HPC Cloud solution enables companies to align performance compute directly to project periods and technology refresh cycles, to optimize resources and take advantage of the compute technology available. HPC cloud solutions are an alternative to legacy IT infrastructures because they are faster to deploy, easily scale to uses and business cycles, and require less capital and operating investment. The enterprise HPC Cloud solution frees companies from having to manage HPC environments and resources so that they can focus on running their businesses, not data centers. Oil and Gas companies use HPC to more rapidly analyze large amounts of geological data enabling these organizations to make wiser operational decisions and get to market faster, which amounts to improved financial performance. To mitigate any performance risks, Dell and R Systems chose to launch the cloud-based solution in CyrusOne's highly reliable enterprise data center colocation facility in Houston. The facility offers the power redundancy (2N architecture) and power-density infrastructure required to deliver excellent availability. CyrusOne's Sky for the Cloud(TM) peering and interconnection platform enables Cloud applications in a customized data hall, designed for maximizing power usage effectiveness (PUE). It encompasses peering within a single location, to more quickly and affordably pull content from the edge of the Internet to the heart of the data center. The company is expected to launch later this 2012, the first statewide Internet exchange in the country that will connect all CyrusOne facilities in Texas--including Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The platform provides customers freedom of choice about how to build out capacity choosing either CyrusOne's bandwidth marketplace, Internet exchange platform, or a cross-connect to cloud services.

CyrusOne announced the appointment of Tesh Durvasula as the company's Chief Commercial Officer. As Chief Commercial Officer, Durvasula will oversee strategy, marketing and sales for the company and will be a key member of the company's executive management team. Durvasula has a wealth of experience in the IT infrastructure industry, most recently he served as Chief Marketing and Business Officer at QTS, which is a and well-respected data center provider. Prior to QTS, he was a co-founder and COO of NYC-Connect, a privately held interconnection business which was sold to Digital Realty Trust and Telx. In addition, he previously served as Vice President of Sales at Abovenet.

Cyrus Networks LLC announced its newest, 80,000-square-foot facility has been officially commissioned in San Antonio, Texas, and is open for business. The company is celebrating the milestone on Oct. 4 with a customer open house event that embodies a night out in Havana, Cuba. CyrusOne is expected to launch the first statewide Internet Exchange in the United States later this year in Texas, which connects these four markets as part of CyrusOne's Sky for the Cloud(TM) peering and interconnection enablement platform. The CyrusOne facilities connected across the four markets deliver the level of power redundancy and density to host mission-critical systems and high-density storage environments, such as those deployed by the cloud providers in the country.