Optimum Lightpath to link data center with hundreds of customers in the New York metropolitan area.

Xand Corporation, a facilities-based provider of Data Center infrastructure and business continuity solutions to financial services and mid-sized corporations, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with Optimum Lightpath, a provider of advanced Ethernet-based communications services, which enables them to offer uninterrupted delivery of robust Internet performance, availability and security to the hundreds of customers that Xand serves through its Westchester County Data Center facility.

The company states that Optimum Lightpath's services enable these companies to confidently provide a range of critical business services to their clients including business continuity/disaster recovery, production Data Center outsourcing and Internet application hosting solutions all delivered over a intelligent, reliable and secure network.

In addition the company explained that many of their customers operate in highly regulated industries, such as financial services. With zero tolerance for downtime, these organizations require extremely reliable mission-critical Data Center services. Further a host of state and industry regulators are now urging, and in some cases requiring, the development of business continuity plans to ensure the backup, protection and recovery of data on a long-term basis.

"As a provider of critical operations for several financial services firms, working with Optimum Lightpath guarantees us the type of high bandwidth - low latency communications we need to keep our clients on plan with their business continuity initiatives," says Seth Oestreicher, Chief Operating Officer at Xand.

"The reliability of our network is critical to our business and to the businesses of our customers," said Jim Kramer, Vice President of Sales for Xand Corporation. "Through expanding our service with Optimum Lightpath, we are able to offer our customers guaranteed reliability. We are also able to provide diversity to the businesses that we serve who use Optimum Lightpath as their primary provider of carrier-class Ethernet services."

"In today's competitive marketplace, business continuity is vital to business survival -- particularly in industries such as financial services, where companies are facing ever-increasing pressures from competitors, customers and regulators," said Dave Pistacchio, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Optimum Lightpath. "Xand is providing companies with a reliable, cost-effective business continuity solution and we're pleased to be providing them the connectivity they need to reach customers with their services. Additionally, Xand is providing Optimum Lightpath's customers with access to a world class data center 30 miles outside of New York City."