Rick Kurtzbein was a Research Analyst in the Multi-Tenant Datacenters channel. He joined 451 Research in October 2010 as a Research Analyst covering the datacenter space.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Rick had more than 20 years of IT experience in several fields. Rick began his career as a contract technical writer on IBM projects before transitioning to project management. Rick managed software and infrastructure projects at Fortune 500 clients including Sabre Holdings, American Airlines and Capital One Financial. Rick next joined Unisys as a Transition Manager for datacenter-outsourcing contracts; he later joined IBM in the same datacenter outsourcing role.
Rick holds a BA in English/technical writing from the University of North Texas, and the Project Management Institute's project management professional certification.
This report provides an overview of the competitive dynamics in the Las Vegas and Salt Lake City emerging markets, a 451 Research Market Map(TM) of the competitors in each market, market share of the dominant providers, supply-demand and utilization trends and discussion of planned multi-tenant datacenter builds.
The company recently acquired two facilities in Cleveland and Pittsburgh from 365 Data Centers. Under their former ownership, these sites did not have local sales staff or get much attention. DataBank is about to give these two facilities and cities the love they deserve.
The carrier hotel, also known as the 511 Building, has powered shell space targeting connectivity-minded retail colocation and large cloud/IaaS providers.
The company continues its drive in Texas with the availability of its Dallas powered-shell datacenter in the Legacy Park area of Plano, a northern suburb. Legacy One will ultimately support up to 450,000 square feet, and Skybox Datacenters has plots of adjacent land for additional builds.
The company has purchased two datacenters from Sentinel Data Centers located in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and Somerset, New Jersey. This further diversifies CyrusOne, and leaves Sentinel Data Centers with a large cash sum to expand or fund new datacenter builds.
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