Hawthorne, NY and Boston, MA, October 13, 2011. ABRY Partners, LLC (“ABRY Partners”) has completed its acquisition of Xand Corporation, a best-in-class facilities-based provider of managed data center infrastructure, private cloud, colocation, and business continuity services.

Data Center requirements in the northeast have grown exponentially in the last 5 years and are expected to continue at a rapid pace for several years. Xand has experienced solid growth and expansion by successfully addressing this demand and increasing its market share. With the significant resources of ABRY, that growth and expansion will continue. ABRY Partners, a private equity investment firm, has made several significant investments in the datacenter and communications space. “We believe Xand’s steady growth-to-date, along with its high quality facilities, services, and employees constitute a strong and scalable platform. We look forward to partnering with the team in growing Xand’s footprint and market presence.” said Brian St. Jean of ABRY.

Partnering with ABRY in the acquisition of Xand are two successful executives who will drive Xand’s growth initiatives. David Struwas has been named Chief Executive Officer and Robert J. DeSantis has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Struwas and Mr. DeSantis, who will join the existing Xand team, are both highly accomplished senior executives who bring over 50 years of experience in building and growing communications and technology companies. Lee Weinstein, the prior President and owner of Xand Corporation, will remain involved with the business as a significant investor and serve on the Company’s Board of Directors.

“Businesses are challenged with handling the expense and complexity of in-house IT functions and infrastructure, and are looking to outsource these activities while reducing operating and capital costs,” Struwas said. “The breadth of knowledge and experience of the Company’s management team positions Xand for a growth strategy through both acquisitions and new builds, while maintaining industry best customer service facilities and superior technical support”. DeSantis added “With ABRY’s financial support and industry experience and Xand’s current operations as a platform, we are well positioned to make additional prudent investments to grow the business. As evidence of this, Xand has completed a recent large data center expansion bringing its total gross square footage to 90,000 and is in the process of securing an additional 50,000 square feet of data center space”.

About Xand

Founded in 1990, Xand is a highly resilient facilities-based provider of data center infrastructure, collocation, private cloud and business continuity services. Xand specializes in complete, end-to-end solutions including application and server hosting, data storage, systems engineering, network operations, Internet connectivity, and business continuity workspace. Its pristine, state-of-the-art Data Center is headquartered in Westchester County, NY, 30 miles north of NYC. Xand supplies and maintains the best-in-class infrastructure, engineering expertise, and customer service needed to deliver superior performance, availability and security for mission-critical business solutions. For more information visit www.xand.com.

About ABRY Partners

Founded in 1989, ABRY is one of the most experienced and successful media, communications, and business information services sector-focused private equity investment firms in North America. ABRY has completed over $27 billion of transactions, representing investments in more than 450 properties. The firm is currently managing over $3.5 billion of total capital and investing out of a $1.6 billion private equity fund, $750 million senior equity/mezzanine fund and a $1.2 billion senior debt fund. ABRY has extensive data center investing experience, having completed over $1.5 billion of transactions and investments in data center & communications companies such as CyrusOne, Hosted Solutions, Datapipe, Telx, Masergy, Q9 Networks and Sentrum Holdings. For more information visit www.abry.com.

Xand will more than double the cooling and power capacities in the facility, along with the expansion in raised floor space. New state-of-the-art systems are being added to the sophisticated switch gear, along with a third 1.25 Megawatt Caterpillar diesel generator to maintain N+1 redundancy with the added power demands.

Vice President of Sales, Jim Kramer, comments, “As firms sharpen their pencils and analyze the cost centers in their business, many are concluding they can save dollars by moving their servers and IT assets to a colocation facility like Xand, or better yet, having a Service Provider manage their whole IT environment.” Overall this sector of the market has experienced steady growth for the past several years.

Xand has responded to the growth requirement and increased demand for their services. Construction of the new area will be completed April 2011. Discussions are ensuing regarding Xand’s plans for additional facilities.

About Xand

Founded in 1990, Xand is a facilities-based provider of data center infrastructure and business continuity solutions to financial services and mid-sized corporations. Xand’s core business is in delivering Enterprise Server hosting and co-location, functioning as a business’s primary Data Center for their critical applications such as E-mail, website, accounting, and inventory systems. Xand offers complete, end-to-end solutions including application and server hosting, security, data storage, systems engineering, network operations, Internet connectivity, and business continuity office suites. Xand maintains a 30,000 sq-ft Internet Data Center at its headquarters 30 miles north of Manhattan, as well as several locations at the major carrier hotels. Each of these sites is connected by a diversely routed, privately owned and operated fiber optic backbone. Xand’s Data Center is equipped with full generator backup, dark fiber running directly to the Xand Data Center, and a host of amenities to insure that clients can function comfortably in case of a declared “disaster.” Staffed by expert technicians and engineers, Xand is able to provide comprehensive, managed, mission-critical business solutions.

“The Kubisys Thin Capture appliance will help us provide tremendous value to our customers,” said Aarti Comstock, Director of Partner Alliances at Xand. “Kubisys Thin Capture offers a truly innovative way for streamlining change management processes, testing, and QA, by allowing our team to quickly deploy replicas of production and run what-if-scenarios for our clients, saving them both time and money.” Kubisys’s powerful next-generation technology, Thin Capture™, gives organizations the ability to quickly and easily create clones of their production environment for software testing. Each cloned environment represents a point-in-time state of the production environment, preserving identical networking, application stack, the and entire data-set, all working together in an isolated bubble. For more information about Thin Capture, please visit www.kubisys.com.

“Kubisys is very pleased to partner with Xand to utilize our innovative production system fast cloning solution,” said Vasken Setrakian, CEO of Kubisys. “Xand’s expertise in data center infrastructure and operations, now including Thin Capture, will allow them to expand their solution offerings. We look forward to working together to significantly improve the software testing and deployment capabilities of Xand’s many customers.”

About Kubisys

Incorporated in 2006, Kubisys is dedicated to the mission of automating and simplifying operations of enterprise data centers by introducing next-generation technologies that efficiently and transparently address business requirements of mission-critical operations.

About Xand

Founded in 1990, Xand is a facilities-based provider of data center infrastructure and business continuity solutions to financial services and mid-sized corporations. Xand offers complete, end-to-end solutions including application and server hosting, security, data storage, systems engineering, network operations, Internet connectivity, and business continuity office suites. Xand maintains a 30,000 sq-ft Internet Data Center at its headquarters 30 miles north of Manhattan, as well as several locations at the major carrier hotels. Each of these sites is connected by a diversely routed, privately owned and operated fiber optic backbone. Staffed by expert technicians and engineers, Xand is able to provide comprehensive, managed, mission-critical business solutions.

ROCHESTER, NY, April 6, 2010. According to industry analysts, the continued growth of data transmission, storage and processing is driving data center growth in the United States, where demand is currently outpacing supply by as much as three times.

In an effort to meet this demand, Fibertech Networks and Xand Corporation have teamed up to offer 100%, fully resilient fiber optic connectivity to Xand’s 30,000 sq. ft., state-of-the-art Westchester County Data Center.

Fibertech, a leading regional provider of fiber optic bandwidth services, owns and operates a nearly statewide fiber optic network in Connecticut. The network measures more than 2,100 miles reaching into Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, New London, Norwalk and Stamford, among others cities. It also connects north from Hartford to Springfield, MA, and Southwest from Stamford into White Plains, NY. In addition, the company recently completed a new metro network in Westchester County, NY, totaling more than 60 miles.

The company can leverage this infrastructure to provide a range of connectivity to area businesses, ranging in speeds from point-to-point and metro multi-point Ethernet service from 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps; OC3 to OC192, in addition to the unlimited bandwidth of dark fiber optics.

“Financial and healthcare institutions, among several other industries, are investing in secure connectivity for their storage, management and processing of digital information,” said Michael C. Hurley, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Fibertech. “Through this agreement with Xand, we can provide a fully resilient solution to more than 90% of Connecticut and a significant number of Westchester County, NY, businesses.”

Headquartered in Hawthorne, NY, Xand’s core business is in delivering Colocation and Enterprise Server hosting, functioning as a production Data Center for many local businesses. In addition, Xand provides hot site, or secondary site services for many firms throughout the region. Business Continuity sites are established at Xand utilizing server virtualization, sophisticated replication of data, redundant power circuits and diverse connections to the Internet, all to achieve environments with no single points of failure.

The newly installed Fibertech service at Xand will provide additional capacity, redundancy and resiliency to customers that Xand serves throughout the Connecticut and Westchester County metropolitan area.

“We understand our customers have zero tolerance for downtime. That makes the communications piece a key component in our overall value proposition. The ability for a client to connect to our facility with Fibertech’s fast and secure network will make all the difference in delivering a solution that meets today’s customers’ sophisticated business requirements”, said Jim Kramer, Vice President of Sales for Xand Corporation. “The service expansion with Fibertech allows Xand to offer customers options of guaranteed reliability through a world class communications provider.”

About Fibertech Networks

Headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., Fibertech Networks is a leader in building and operating fiber optic networks throughout mid-size cities in the Eastern and Central regions of the United States. The company was recently recognized among metro-specific, fiber-based providers as the “Best-In-Class Service Partner” for retail business customers by Atlantic ACM in its Metro Report Card.

Founded in 2000 and privately held, Fibertech investors are led by Nautic Partners of Providence, R.I., and Banc of America Capital Investors of Charlotte, N.C. Further information about the company can be found at www.fibertech.com.

About Xand

Founded in 1990, Xand is a facilities-based provider of data center infrastructure and business continuity solutions to financial services and mid-sized corporations. Xand offers complete, end-to-end solutions including application and server hosting, security, data storage, systems engineering, network operations, Internet connectivity, and business continuity office suites. Xand maintains a 30,000 sq-ft Internet Data Center at its headquarters 30 miles north of Manhattan, as well as several locations at the major carrier hotels. Each of these sites is connected by a diversely routed, privately owned and operated fiber optic backbone. Staffed by expert technicians and engineers, Xand is able to provide comprehensive, managed, mission-critical business solutions.

Bob Lord, President and CEO for Strategic Safety Solutions said “We provide our clients the very best in data management, exception based and overall reporting services for regulatory compliance, training, video delivery, learning management systems and safety management services all in a one stop shopping environment. Our customer data is not simply warehoused; it is audited for compliance against current regulations. I am very excited about our new relationship; Xand’s SAS70 Type II Data Center facility certification means our client’s information is secure, accurate and always available”

Strategic Safety Solutions, LLC, will be relocating offices to Hawthorne, NY, in the near future.

About Xand

Founded in 1990, Xand is a facilities-based provider of data center infrastructure and business continuity solutions to financial services and mid-sized corporations. Xand’s core business is in delivering Enterprise Server hosting and co-location, functioning as a business’s primary Data Center for their critical applications such as E-mail, website, accounting, and inventory systems. Xand offers complete, end-to-end solutions including application and server hosting, security, data storage, systems engineering, network operations, Internet connectivity, and business continuity office suites. Xand maintains a 30,000 sq-ft Internet Data Center at its headquarters 30 miles north of Manhattan, as well as several locations at the major carrier hotels. Each of these sites is connected by a diversely routed, privately owned and operated fiber optic backbone. Xand’s Data Center is equipped with full generator backup, dark fiber running directly to the Xand Data Center, and a host of amenities to insure that clients can function comfortably in case of a declared “disaster.” Staffed by expert technicians and engineers, Xand is able to provide comprehensive, managed, mission-critical business solutions.