Nirvanix (News - Alert), a provider of cloud storage solutions, has announced an agreement with CyrusOne, a source of enterprise storage, to double its capacity.

"Our capacity expansion at CyrusOne (News - Alert) is based on customer demand, as more and more organizations generate massive amounts of unstructured data – many in the petabyte range, customers with terabyte-sized files – and it's clear that conventional storage solutions aren't addressing their needs," said Scott Genereux, President and CEO of Nirvanix. "Nirvanix fully managed cloud storage services with an on-demand, pay-by-the-drink model deployed within CyrusOne data centers provides the agility, security and cost savings customers are looking for.

“Customers [also] benefit from CyrusOne's interconnected Internet exchange,” he added, “which means better backup and archival performance and a substantial reduction in network-connection expenses."

CyrusOne, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cincinatti Bell, is linking its data centers in the Texas cities of Dallas, Houston and San Antonio together, creating its first statewide Internet exchange and Nirvanix's second data center location in Dallas. It will also be the first facility of its kind in the United States.

The data center will allow Nirvanix's Fortune 1000 customers to back up and store their data, as well as collaborate with others at high speeds.

CyrusOne has four data centers in Dallas Alone, with a total of 124,000 square feet. They also recently bought 400,000 square feet in North Dallas, with the goal of setting up a LEED-compliant facility.

"CyrusOne is aggressively expanding its footprint in Texas, and in Dallas we see significant opportunity for growth in computing infrastructure colocation within the oil-and-gas industry," said Gary Wojtaszek, President of CyrusOne "We're also strengthening our competitive advantage with our 'Sky for the Cloud' platform, which provides a home for the cloud in a customized data hall, designed for maximizing Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), and interconnects an ecosystem of business partners, content providers, networks, carriers, Internet service providers, and Ethernet buyers and sellers."

Nirvanix has also provided direct connections to cloud storage with Equinix (News - Alert) data centers.