Network Strategies Inc. (NSI), a managed services provider, has agreed to offer StillSecure‘s managed security and compliance services to end customers. Here’s a closer look at the relationship.

NSI, founded in 2003, provides managed services exclusively within Equinix Data Centers in Ashburn, Va.; Chicago; Dallas; and London. In contrast, StillSecure designs and delivers managed network security and certified compliance solutions.

According to a prepared statement: “In addition to managed security services for co-location, hosting and business continuity clients, the partnership will leverage StillSecure’s security platform for Network Strategies’ virtual and cloud customers managed colocation services within key Equinix data center hubs, providing the same high level of protection found in traditional deployments.”

This is the first partnership that StillSecure has announced since the company pushed into the managed security space in late March 2011 by partnering with CoreSite and XO Communications.