Adam Edwards (pictured), CEO and co-founder of Sandy, Utah-based master agent Telarus, a Peak 10 and ViaWest partner, after Peak 10 moved to acquire cloud service provider ViaWest for $1.67 billion in a deal that will form a global co-location, connectivity and managed cloud service provider behemoth.

"We see all infrastructure providers racing to scale to achieve the economies necessary to compete in the hyper-competitive landscape -- this includes carriers and data centers.  The Peak 10 and ViaWest combination makes sense as we've seen Peak 10 as an eastern U.S. version of ViaWest."