Data center and hosting provider Hosted Solutions (hostedsolutions.com) announced on Wednesday it has signed an agreement with Raleigh, North Carolina based Pepsi Bottling Ventures to provide colocation services for the company.

As PepsiCo's third-largest anchor bottler in the United States, Pepsi Bottling Ventures, a joint venture between Suntory International and PepsiCo, serves nearly 10 million people in portions of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New York.

"Hosted Solutions state-of-the-art facility and 24-hour tech support staff are in close proximity to our IT department and corporate headquarters, and enable us to quickly address several of our disaster recovery requirements," says Tommy Alexander, director of IT infrastructure at Pepsi Bottling Ventures.

Hosted Solutions offers a full suite of services including colocation, fully-managed servers, dedicated servers, business continuity services, managed storage, enterprise backup, managed firewall, intrusion and vulnerability detection, load balancing, high availability clustering, and 24-hour monitoring and management of e-commerce infrastructures.