InfoConverge
Starting InfoRelay.
InfoConverge founder Russell Weiss previously founded and led InfoRelay, growing it from an early technology business into a national provider of data center, connectivity, and managed IT services.
Different technology.
The same care.
InfoConverge builds apps, custom software, and AI solutions that help people connect information, simplify workflows, and put ideas into practice.
From the infrastructure
behind the screen
to the tools on it.
Running data centers and supporting customer systems means working through problems that rarely stay in one place. A fault may cross networks, servers, support tickets, and teams. Resolving it takes a clear history, reliable information, and someone responsible for the next step.
That work also reveals where processes get in the way: repeated data entry, incomplete handoffs, and time spent piecing together updates. Those are the kinds of problems InfoConverge is built to address.
InfoConverge draws on decades of hands-on experience building networks, operating redundant data centers, and supporting the businesses that relied on them. Much of that foundation took shape at InfoRelay.
The InfoRelay
years.
Building our own network.
InfoRelay began building its own network, taking a more direct role in the connections that carried customers’ traffic and kept their systems reachable.
A backbone for
Northern Virginia and D.C.
Over more than a decade, InfoRelay developed a regional backbone linking Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. The emphasis was on redundancy and uptime: connecting facilities, expanding capacity, and providing multiple paths for customer traffic.
Designing and building
Dulles Exchange.
InfoRelay designed and constructed its own data center in Herndon, Virginia, which also became its headquarters. Backup generators, flywheel-based uninterruptible power supplies, redundant cooling, and connections to multiple fiber networks supported systems that customers depended on around the clock.
Dulles Exchange opening announcementManaging the systems,
not just the space.
InfoRelay’s services extended from colocation and dedicated servers to cloud hosting, backup and recovery, and hands-on management of customer systems. Technical support was available around the clock.
InfoRelay worked with local and national technology partners to deliver cloud solutions and support customers’ IT needs. Its New York data center presence expanded in 2013.
New York expansion announcementNational reach.
Fiber rings on both coasts.
InfoRelay’s national data center presence grew to include Los Angeles, San Jose, Dallas, Chicago, New York, and Miami. The expansion brought its connectivity and managed services closer to customers across the country.
The team established a Los Angeles metro fiber ring alongside its Northern Virginia network. In 2014, it expanded capacity on both rings, giving customers private links between facilities and access to additional network providers.
Regional fiber network expansionMore control for customers.
Support behind it.
A new customer portal brought equipment records, worklogs, support usage, and remote server restarts into one place. It complemented the team’s focus on responsive, knowledgeable support—helping customers manage their systems and get problems resolved.
Customer portal announcementAcquiring a data center
in Reston.
InfoRelay purchased the Reston, Virginia facility from 365 Data Centers. It had already provided network and colocation services there since 2006; ownership gave the team greater flexibility to tailor space, power, and connectivity for customers.
The acquisition brought InfoRelay to two owned facilities among the four Northern Virginia locations where it operated, alongside its wider national service presence.
Reston acquisition announcementJoining Atlantic Metro.
InfoRelay and Atlantic Metro announced their merger, combining their colocation, network, cloud, and managed-services businesses.
The companies’ merger announcementFrom infrastructure
to applied AI.
InfoConverge grew out of Russell’s computer science background and experience building businesses, tracking complex internal and customer-facing IT issues, and troubleshooting the systems behind them. That work meant examining how teams worked, identifying inefficiencies, and finding steps that could be simplified or automated.
That experience is the foundation for our custom software and AI work today: connecting records across business systems, reducing repetitive tasks, and helping teams follow an issue from the first report through resolution.
Alongside custom work, we’re exploring apps for learning, reflection, and personal development. Across both, the work starts with understanding the people who will use it and the problem they need to solve.