TierPoint Baltimore BWI

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813 Pinnacle Drive

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Fully operational facility

Baltimore

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Maryland

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Mid-Atlantic

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United States

Country
North America

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Americas

Region

TierPoint Baltimore BWI

Year Built: 2018

Total Power

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Gross Colocation Size

TierPoint’s Baltimore BWI facility opened in June 2018 and is easily accessible from Baltimore and Washington by car, convenient to I-95, BWI airport and rail station. In addition to a highly redundant network and access to numerous carriers, Baltimore-BWI has unique direct connectivity options to hyperscale clouds in Ashburn, VA via private network. T

his facility is audited under SSAE 18 SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS*, GLBA and HIPAA standards annually and is ITAR and EU-US Privacy Shield registered.

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813 Pinnacle Drive

TierPoint Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of TierPoint Baltimore BWI

Distance	Site	About
4.87 miles	Mag Partners: Baltimore	New York-based real estate developer Mag Partners is exploring the possibility of building data centers in Baltimore.
5.15 miles	TierPoint Baltimore (BTP)	TierPoint added an additional 3,000 sqft in 2016.
6.12 miles	Verizon: 100 Charles
6.27 miles	AiNET One Market Center	Baltimore carrier hotel, One Market Center (300 West Lexington Street) is Baltimore’s most interconnected building
6.27 miles	Level3 Baltimore
6.27 miles	Verizon: 300 Lexington	Former XO facility
6.32 miles	Expedient Baltimore - Tide Point
6.43 miles	Crown Castle: 111 Market Place
6.44 miles	Lumen 111 Market
6.53 miles	AiNET CyberNAP Glen Burnie
7.27 miles	Security Land: Woodlawn Campus	Security Land and Development LP is planning a new data center campus on a 42-acre site in Woodlawn, Maryland, located just west of Baltimore’s metro center.
7.37 miles	Security Land: Woodlawn Expansion
11.89 miles	AiNET Laurel SCIF
14.65 miles	TPC: Konterra 1	TPC Data Center is planning its first data center in Prince George's County at 6201 Frost Place in Laurel, close to the Burtonsville substation.
15.61 miles	Comcast Nottingham
16.34 miles	Expedient Baltimore-Owings Mills	Expedient engineers are on-site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
17.24 miles	AiNET Beltsville WDC-1
17.50 miles	COPT DC-3
18.64 miles	DataBridge: Silver Spring MD	Gannett, the newspaper media company, has its primary data center in the building. Agile acquired the site in December 2017.
18.66 miles	12401 Prosperity Dr: Lincoln Rackhouse	12401 Prosperity Dr. is an enterprise grade, highly-secure data center located just 15 miles north of Washington D.C., in Silver Spring, MD.

TierPoint Baltimore BWI Data Center Photos (See all)

TierPoint CEO Jerry Kent, Maryland Lt. Governor Rutherford and other local officials celebrate the grand opening of our newest Maryland facility with a ceremonial ribbon cutting!

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony in June 2018

Source: TierPoint Twitter

TierPoint CEO Jerry Kent, Maryland Lt. Governor Rutherford and other local officials celebrate the grand opening of our newest Maryland facility with a ceremonial ribbon cutting!

Taken during the June 2018 launch of the BWI site

TierPoint's Technical Staff in Baltimore

Source: TierPoint Twitter

Taken during the June 2018 launch of the BWI site

813 Pinnacle Drive has been LEED Gold certified by the U.S. Green Building Council! The 34,600 SF building at BWI Tech Park is home to TierPoint’s energy-efficient BWI Data Center, and was designed...

Celebrating being LEED Gold certified by the U.S. Green Building Council in January 2020

Source: St John Properties

813 Pinnacle Drive has been LEED Gold certified by the U.S. Green Building Council! The 34,600 SF building at BWI Tech Park is home to TierPoint’s energy-efficient BWI Data Center, and was designed to achieve an energy cost savings of 45%. During construction, 85% of on-site generated construction waste was diverted from landfills.

Operating Company

TierPoint is a data center and managed services provider that focuses on secondary markets in the United States. Operating as a private-equity backed company, As detailed in the history section below, Tierpoint has actively acquired smaller providers and impressively rolled up a national platform in 20 markets.

Tierpoint Acquisitions and History

TierPoint was formed in 2010 as Cequel Data Centers LLC, however, the company's origins date back to 1995. Through a conglomeration of acquisitions, TierPoint built its data center portfolio. [r1]

2010:

Cequel acquired Colo4 (Based in Dallas and originally founded in 2000)

2011

Cequel acquired Perimeter Technology (Based in Oklahoma and founded in 2003)

2012

Cequel acquired TierPoint (Based in Spokane and founded in 2003). After the acquisition, Cequel was rebranded as Tierpoint
2012 Adhost acquired (Based in Seattle and founded in 1995)
2012 DBSi acquired [r2]

2013

Baltimore Technology Park acquired (Based in Baltimore and founded in 2005)

2014

TierPoint Management team recapitalized the company
Philadelphia Technology Park. Located in the Philadelphia Navy Yard the 25,700 sqft Philadelphia Technology Park first opened in 2010
Xand (founded in 1999)

2015

Acquired CxP Data Centers that added a 121,000sqft Jacksonville facility [r3]
TierPoint Acquires AlteredScale Data Center in Chicago
Acquired Windstream for $575 million. The transaction added 20 datacenters, mainly in the East, Midwest, and South, which fit nicely with TierPoint's western-leaning portfolio. Windstream was itself a data center roll-up of sorts. In 2010 Windstream acquired PAETEC and Hosted Solutions in 2010.

2016

Cosentury was acquired by Tierpoint in January 2016 for $575 million. Cosentury, was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in Omaha, NE. It provided Colocation, IaaS, and Compliance and Security services. Cosentury was a large company to swallow. It had nine data centers in the Midwest US and 220 emploiyees.

Tierpoint Services

Data center colocation is the prime product, but Tierpoint also offers Cloud, Managed Services, and DIA with DDoS protection.

TierPoint's customer portal allows for self-provisioning of resources (such as VMs and storage) and a dashboard that allows customers to remotely monitor workloads and applications across all locations. The company offers a comprehensive solution portfolio of private, multitenant, hyperscale, and hybrid cloud, plus colocation, disaster recovery, security and other managed IT services.