TierPoint Raleigh-RTP

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99 T W. Alexander Drive

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Fully operational facility

Raleigh

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North Carolina

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Mid-Atlantic

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United States

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North America

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Americas

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TierPoint Raleigh-RTP

Site: Compass: Durham, NC

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99 T W. Alexander Drive

TierPoint Sites

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Sites within 15 miles of TierPoint Raleigh-RTP

Distance	Site	About
0.01 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.
1.84 miles	IBM Research Triangle Park
2.59 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.
2.75 miles	CyrusOne Raleigh-Durham I	In February 2017 CyrusOne acquired this site from Sentinel Data Centers.
4.25 miles	Mapletree: 5150 McCrimmon
4.27 miles	Flexential Raleigh
4.56 miles	Lumen Raleigh 4
10.69 miles	Celito
11.37 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.
12.31 miles	Crypto Mining Data Center Request Dataset	November-5 is a joint-venture opportunity planned by Wattum Management on 2 acres of land in North Carolina, USA.
12.31 miles	Crypto Mining Data Center Request Dataset	November-3 is a joint-venture opportunity planned by Wattum Management on 2 acres of land in North Carolina, USA.
12.87 miles	TierPoint Raleigh-Cary
15.57 miles	Lumen Raleigh 2
15.84 miles	Lumen Raleigh 3
16.04 miles	Lumen Raleigh 1
16.04 miles	TierPoint Raleigh
16.55 miles	New Hill Expansion
16.55 miles	New Hill Digital Campus	Plans for the New Hill Digital Campus, a data center project by Natelli Investments LLC near Apex and the Harris Nuclear Plant in Wake County, North Carolina, have caused significant backlash.
16.91 miles	Segra: Raleigh

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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.