CoreSite Announces New Services And Partnerships To Power The
Cloud-Enabled Data Center
DENVER, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CoreSite Realty
Corporation (NYSE: COR), a provider of powerful, network-dense data
center campuses and the CoreSite Mesh, which enables interconnected
communities of service providers and enterprises, today announced a
new initiative designed to enhance the capabilities of its
cloud-enabled data centers for customers.
CoreSite's Open Cloud Exchange improves customer choice by
offering best-of-breed partnerships and services from a broad range
of providers. It enables the enterprises, Managed Service Providers
(MSPs) and Systems Integrators (SIs) in CoreSite facilities to
connect directly, via a single resource, to the cloud service
providers of their choice. It is available immediately in seven of
CoreSite's North American data center campuses including
Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, New
York, Northern Virginia,
Boston, and Washington, DC. The Open Cloud Exchange
responds to a significant worldwide growth in demand for public,
private, and hybrid cloud interconnection and management services.
It provides customers with flexible options to securely and easily
connect to all types of cloud offerings.
"We're building the industry's premier home for cloud services,"
said Jarrett Appleby, COO, CoreSite.
"With networks—the oxygen for cloud services—as the foundation,
adding the industry's leading cloud providers will create
best-in-class scalability, management, automation, software, and
many-to-many exchange capability. The Open Cloud Exchange offers
our customers enormous provider flexibility, guaranteed
performance, real-time monitoring, and easy management of cloud
infrastructure services."
Initial best-of-breed partners
Four industry leaders join CoreSite in providing initial Open
Cloud Exchange services, with more expected:
- CENX, a leader in Carrier Ethernet interconnect systems and
services, will provide its CENX Automated Ethernet Lifecycle
Management software specially designed for CoreSite's Open Cloud
Exchange, enabling easy, single sign-on management of Layer 2 cloud
infrastructure services and full MEF CE 2.0 compatibility.
- RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, will
provide the platform to easily deploy and manage business-critical
applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds. RightScale
offers efficient configuration, monitoring, automation, and
governance of cloud computing infrastructure and applications.
- RiverMeadow Software will deliver its industry-leading
automated cloud onboarding SaaS developed specifically for
migrating servers and workloads into and between Carrier Service
Provider Clouds.
- Brocade, an industry leader in reliable, high-performance
network solutions, will provide the hardware infrastructure and
switching logic at the heart of the Open Cloud Exchange.
"Powered by class-leading Ethernet management software from
CENX, CoreSite's Open Cloud Exchange sets a new standard for data
centers by enabling customers to create secure, on-demand,
high-performance connectivity to the cloud services of their
choice," said Nan Chen, President of
CENX. "We are thrilled to be part of the launch of this powerful,
industry-leading product."
"Customers need to choose their data center and cloud services
management providers carefully," said Michael Crandell, CEO, RightScale. "Vendor
neutrality, scale, interoperability, management capabilities, and
access to a rich environment of providers are all important
considerations. CoreSite and RightScale are working together to
provide just that."
"Our goal is to make cloud onboarding fast, simple and cost
efficient," said Mark Shirman, CEO,
RiverMeadow Software. "It is about making it easy for customers to
take full advantage of the wide portfolio of cloud services offered
to them by CoreSite, without the usual hassles of templating,
scripting and repurposing tools such as back-up and recovery."
Additional services in 2013
The initial partners and services offered in the Open Cloud
Exchange announced today are available immediately and will expand
with other best-of-breed partners. Future enhancements will
strengthen customers' cloud management capabilities and will
enable:
- Connection to providers across multiple CoreSite locations
within the same metropolitan area
- Connections between customers and providers in various on-net
buildings throughout the country
- Choice between numerous software and services providers to
support performance sensitive customer applications through a
marketplace portal
About CoreSite
CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE: COR) is the data center
service provider chosen by more than 750 of the world's leading
carriers and mobile operators, content and cloud providers, media
and entertainment companies, and global enterprises to run their
performance-sensitive applications and to connect and do business.
CoreSite propels customer growth and long-term competitive
advantage through the CoreSite Mesh by connecting
the Internet, private networking, mobility, and cloud
communities within and across its 14 high-performance data center
campuses in nine markets in North
America. With direct access to 275+ carriers and ISPs, over
180 leading cloud and IT service providers, intersite connectivity,
and the nation's first Open Cloud Exchange that provides access to
thousands of lit buildings and multiple key cloud on-ramps,
CoreSite provides easy, efficient and valuable gateways to global
business opportunities. For more information, visit
www.CoreSite.com.
Forward Looking Statements
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contingencies, many of which are beyond CoreSite's control that may
cause actual results to differ significantly from those expressed
in any forward-looking statement. These risks include, without
limitation: adverse developments in economic conditions or the
demand for data center space in in the markets in which CoreSite
operates; increased operating costs; significant competition in the
data center industry and an inability to lease vacant space, renew
existing licenses or release space as licenses expire; changes in
real estate and zoning laws and increases in real property tax
rates; lack of sufficient customer demand to realize expected
returns on our investments; and other factors affecting the
datacenter industry generally. All forward-looking statements
reflect CoreSite's good faith beliefs, assumptions and
expectations, but they are not guarantees of future performance.
Furthermore, CoreSite disclaims any obligation to publicly update
or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect changes in
underlying assumptions or factors, of new information, data or
methods, future events or other changes. For a further discussion
of these and other factors that could cause CoreSite's future
results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements,
see the section entitled "Risk Factors" in CoreSite's most recent
annual report on Form 10-K, and other risks described in documents
subsequently filed by CoreSite from time to time with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
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