IceWEB, Inc. Enters into Consulting Agreement with Open Data Centers, LLC
January 29 2014 - 11:09AM
Business Wire
Open Data Centers to Jointly Market and Sell
Services and Support Operations in Kansas City Data Center
IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCQB:IWEB), ("IceWEB") is pleased to announce
that it has signed a consulting agreement along with a separate
Joint Marketing and Sales Agreement with Open Data Centers, LLC, a
New Jersey limited liability company ("ODC") and 1stPoint
Communications, LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company (“FP”).
ODC will provide operational and sales expertise to enhance the
capabilities and operations of IceWEB’s Computers & Tele-com,
Inc. and KCNAP, LLC subsidiaries (“collectively “CTC”) in Kansas
City, Missouri. In addition, CTC, KCNAP, FP and ODC will jointly
market and sell their services.
“We are very pleased to welcome Mr. Levitt to our team, and look
forward to his participation in furthering IceWEB’s operational
objectives,” stated Hal Compton, Sr., IceWEB’s Chairman and Interim
CEO. “He contributes his experience and expertise in many areas of
the information technology, telecommunications and data center
fields, and brings a valuable perspective on the issues and
opportunities facing the Company. In addition, we believe that the
ODC sales agreement will be able to generate sales momentum in our
data center and wireless businesses.”
Erik Levitt, a founding partner of Open Data Centers, has over
twenty three years of experience in the telecommunications
industry. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Open Data
Centers, LLC, 1st Point Communications, LLC and Endstream
Communications, LLC. Prior to founding Endstream in 2007 and
subsequently FP and ODC in 2012, Mr. Levitt founded Core Technology
Services, Inc., a leading network managed services provider for the
financial, legal and professional services industries, in 1995. In
2004 Core was acquired by Access Integrated Technologies, Inc.
(AccessIT), and he served as the President and COO of AccessIT
Managed Services, a subsidiary of AccessIT. Access IT Managed
Services managed day-to-day operations of AccessIT’s data center
facilities nationwide and a worldwide network infrastructure. Mr.
Levitt has a degree in International Business and Management from
the Stern School of Business at New York University. “We are
excited about the collaborative opportunities that this
relationship presents. The companies operate similar
telecommunications and data center infrastructures, but have a
great deal of geographic diversity,” commented Levitt. “Customers
of both IceWEB and ODC will soon benefit from a new set of services
offered jointly under the agreement, including primary data center
redundancy, disaster recovery services, private and public cloud
offerings, and advanced storage solutions.”
About Open Data Centers
Open Data Centers is a carrier-neutral data center operator
located 16 miles south of New York City. ODC’s Piscataway Data
Center provides an ideal location for carrier POPs, a low-latency
alternative for colocation of financial services applications, or a
high-quality, inexpensive facility for the location of cloud
services. Fed from diverse power grids, access to multiple fiber
providers, truly diverse communications, and with N+1 redundancy at
every level of the infrastructure, Open Data Centers is positioned
to be the premier low-cost, carrier neutral facility in the New
York area.
About 1stPoint Communications
1stPoint Communications is a full service telecommunications
carrier specializing in the convergence of voice, data and video
technology, bringing together wireline, wireless and mobile
solutions to provide the ideal service for homes, small businesses
or enterprises. Based on state of the art metro Ethernet and long
haul data networks, robust Internet network and CLEC
interconnections, 1stPoint has created best of breed technology
solutions that allow customers to derive more value from their
technology expenditures without sacrificing the quality they have
become accustomed to. 1stPoint Communications services include a
wide array of voice and data solutions’.
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