TierPoint Raleigh

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5301 Departure Drive

Operational

Fully operational facility

Raleigh

Metro
North Carolina

State
Mid-Atlantic

Region
United States

Country
North America

Region
Americas

Region

TierPoint Raleigh

Short Code: RAL

SqFt

Total Building Size

Total Power

SqFt

Gross Colocation Size

Building:

Building is rated to withstand hurricane-force winds
Ballistics-resistant walls, doors and windows
24 to 36 inch raised floor
Masonry and steel construction
Hurricane wind-rated roof
Leak detection systems throughout the facility

Power:

2N or System Plus System Power design
Redundant utility transformers, generators, Automatic Transfer Switches (ATSs), main switch panels, UPSs and PDUs
Power distribution consists of an A and B side methodology with each side of the power infrastructure having the capacity to support full facility load in the event of failure
Redundant 2 Megawatt diesel generators are regularly tested for added protection
Critical functions are remotely monitored within data center

Map and Nearby Locations:

5301 Departure Drive

TierPoint Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of TierPoint Raleigh

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	Lumen Raleigh 1
2.09 miles	Lumen Raleigh 3
3.69 miles	Lumen Raleigh 2
8.45 miles	Celito
8.58 miles	American Tower: Raleigh, NC	American Tower Edge Data Center, also known as RA1, is located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The facility is Approximately 5,000 square feet, with the capacity to expand up to 16,000 square feet.
9.65 miles	Segra: Raleigh
10.44 miles	TierPoint Raleigh-Cary
12.99 miles	Mapletree: 5150 McCrimmon
12.99 miles	Flexential Raleigh
14.00 miles	Enterprise Data Center Request Dataset	The EMC Durham Center of Excellence officially became operational as EMC's first U.S.-based and seventh global Center of Excellence, housing a state-of-the-art cloud data center and extensive R&D labs.
15.13 miles	IBM Research Triangle Park
16.04 miles	TierPoint Raleigh-RTP
16.04 miles	Compass: Durham, NC	Compass Datacenters constructed its first North Carolina data center in the Raleigh-Durham area in 2013. The facility spans 22,000 square feet, featuring 10,000 square feet of initial raised floor space with potential for future expansion.
16.81 miles	CyrusOne Raleigh-Durham I	In February 2017 CyrusOne acquired this site from Sentinel Data Centers.
17.05 miles	Lumen Raleigh 4

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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.