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CyrusOne Responds to Increasing National Data Center Demand by Adding Third Houston Location

June 16, 2009

CyrusOne, the leading Texas enterprise data center colocation provider, announced today that it plans to build and operate an initial 94,000 square foot high availability, high density, data center in West Houston, with the option to expand by adding an additional 100,000 square feet on the adjacent land. The company will continue to lead in total data center square footage in Texas with seven facilities totaling 480,000 square feet, including three facilities in Houston, three in Dallas and one in Austin.

“Since our entrance into the Houston market in 2001, we have built a strong momentum within the energy, financial services, and technology industries, as companies are realizing the benefits of data center colocation, including scalability of infrastructure, deferred capital expenditures associated with building a data center and increased availability of critical applications,” said David Ferdman, President and CEO, CyrusOne. “Our decision to build a third data center facility in Houston is based on increased local, national and international customer demand as companies are restructuring their data center strategies in an ever-changing economy.”

“In the fourth quarter of 2008, following the stock market crash in October, businesses began to change their strategy for acquiring data center space,” said Lydia Leong, Research Director Gartner Research. “As a result, demand for colocation is increasing due to capacity constraints, business uncertainty and lack of capital to support data center construction projects.”

Located along the North West Beltway, between I-10 and 290, CyrusOne’s West Houston data center will be a “greenfield” project, built from the ground up by the company’s construction team, offering the highest power redundancy (2N architecture) and highest power-density infrastructure, supporting 250+ watts per square foot across the entire data center floor. The facility is strategically positioned with access to significant and redundant utility power feeds and access to the fastest and most reliable telecommunications networks, as it is located along a major fiber corridor in Houston.

Built to sustain typical and potential Houston weather risks, the hardened facility is outside the FEMA 500 year flood plain and will have a reinforced roof and concrete walls. The facility will have significant physical security features including perimeter fencing, dual authentication, biometric access systems, digital closed circuit monitoring systems, and 24x7 security guards. It will also incorporate CyrusOne’s sophisticated building management systems designed to proactively monitor all of the mechanical and electrical systems in the building.

CyrusOne offers the highest density data centers in the Southwestern United States, currently supporting server installations that utilize up to 1,000 watts of power per square foot, versus traditional 120 watts per square foot, offered by competitors. This high density enables customers to confidently implement more sophisticated applications and handle larger volumes of mission-critical information, a trend that will grow even more important in the years to come.

All of CyrusOne customers require a unique high availability data center requirement to ensure 100 percent uptime of mission-critical applications. The company has traditionally appealed to a wide variety of companies including many of the largest Global 100 companies as well as a variety of technology service providers.

The CyrusOne data centers represent the largest high-density, fully redundant collocation facilities in the Southwestern United States. The facilities are designed for zero downtime. They accommodate the latest server technologies in a fully redundant, 2N power and cooling configuration. CyrusOne engineers all data centers with multiple levels of uninterruptible power supplies and diesel generators.

About CyrusOne
CyrusOne is a leader in high-availability, high-density data center services, offering colocation and implementation services for companies in a wide range of industries, such as Schlumberger, Dynegy, Repsol,YPF and Christus Health. The company helps its clients optimize the return on their technology investments while ensuring application availability, data security and superior IT performance. CyrusOne was recently acquired by ABRY Partners, a Boston-based private equity investment firm with $21 billion in investments across more than 450 media and communications properties. For more information, visit www.cyrusone.com or call 1-866-297-8766.

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Media Contact:
Nicole Aguillard
CyrusOne
713.235.8707
naguillard@cyrusone.com