2017 Data Center 100: 20 Data Center Services Providers

Data Center Services Providers

Taking advantage of leading-edge, flexible and cost-effective data center services does not require actually owning a data center. Indeed, third-party providers of data center services including co-location, managed hosting, cloud hosting, disaster recovery and more let customers take advantage of those services as an operating expense. That frees them to focus on their business while others handle the mundane operations.

Here 's a look at the data center services providers on this year 's Data Center 100 list.

365 Data Centers

John Scanlon, CEO

Headquarters: Emeryville, Calif.

365 Data Centers operates 11 U.S. data centers to provide secure, carrier-neutral edge co-location services with 100 percent uptime SLA and industry compliance.

ByteGrid

Michael Duckett, CEO

Headquarters: Silver Spring, Md.

ByteGrid 's enterprise data center facilities across the U.S. provide customers with anywhere from a single cabinet to a private data hall. Each data center offers power and cooling, fire and smoke detection and suppression systems, and full security.

CentriLogic

Robert Offley, President, CEO

Headquarters: Toronto

CentriLogic, which owns and operates data center facilities throughout North America, provides dedicated and co-location hosting, cloud hosting, hybrid hosting, managed services, business continuity and disaster recovery services, compliance support, and web application development.

Cologix

Grant van Rooyen, President, CEO

Headquarters: Denver

Cologix provides scalable network-neutral co-location, connectivity, recovery and managed infrastructure services. Its services stem from 24 data centers across North America.

C yrusOne

Gary Wojtaszek, President, CEO

Headquarters: Carrollton, Texas

CyrusOne is a real estate investment trust specializing in enterprise-class, carrier-neutral data centers. The company provides mission-critical data center services via 30-plus data centers nationwide.

DataBank

Timothy Moore, CEO

Headquarters: Dallas

DataBank provides enterprise-class co-location services via six data centers in Texas, Minnesota and Kansas. The company, which in 2016 was acquired by Digital Bridge, offers managed security, data, network, infrastructure and compliance services as well as private and hybrid cloud services.

Digital Realty

A. William Stein, CEO

Headquarters: San Francisco

Digital Realty owns, acquires, develops and manages technology-related real estate. It provides data center, co-location and interconnection solutions for domestic and international tenants across a variety of verticals via 150-plus data centers in over 30 markets.

Equinix

Stephen Smith, President, CEO

Headquarters: Redwood City, Calif.

Equinix is the largest provider of co-location, interconnection, network, cloud and other services thanks to its 145-plus data centers and 180,000-plus connections between customers worldwide.

Expedient

Charlie Watkins, CEO

Headquarters: Pittsburgh

Expedient 's 11 enterprise-class data centers in seven cities in the Midwest and East Coast provide a base for the company to offer enterprise managed hosting services including backup, compliance and security, disaster recovery, network access, storage and more.

GTT Communications

Richard Calder, President, CEO

Headquarters: McLean, Va.

GTT provides cloud networking services, including WAN, internet, managed services and voice. Its Tier 1 IP network connects clients to any location and any application in the cloud.

Infomart Data Centers

John Sheputis, CEO

Headquarters: Dallas

Infomart Data Centers, owned by ASB Allegiance Real Estate Fund, a $7.2 billion private real estate investment trust, owns and operates carrier-neutral data centers in Dallas; Portland, Ore.; Ashburn, Va.; and San Jose, Calif.

IO Data Centers

George Slessman, CEO

Headquarters: Phoenix

IO Data Centers provides co-location services via facilities in Arizona, Ohio, New Jersey and Singapore. Its software-defined service provider network provides transport services between IO data centers, non-IO data centers, public clouds and customer facilities.

NaviSite

Sumeet Sabharwal, Group VP, GM

Headquarters: Andover, Mass.

NaviSite, part of the Time Warner Cable family, provides enterprise-class managed services including application, hosting and cloud services via seven data centers in the U.S. and the U.K. NaviSite takes advantage of 230,000 route miles of fiber owned by its parent organization, Spectrum Enterprise.

OneNeck IT Solutions

Terry Swanson, President, CEO

Headquarters: Scottsdale, Ariz.

A network of 10 data centers in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon and Wisconsin gives OneNeck IT Solutions a nationwide base from which to offer hybrid IT solutions.

Peak 10

Chris Downie, CEO

Headquarters: Charlotte, N.C.

Peak 10 provides data center and network services, cloud services and managed services through its network of 10 data centers across the U.S. that meet a number of compliance requirements.

QTS Data Centers

Chad Williams, Chairman, CEO

Headquarters: Overland Park, Kan.

QTS Data Centers has a worldwide network of 13 owned and eight leased or partner data centers through which it offers custom data center services, co-location, cloud and managed services, and connectivity.

Sentinel Data Centers

Todd Aaron, Josh Rabina, Co-CEOs

Headquarters: New York

Sentinel Data Centers owns, develops and operates multitenant data centers for large-footprint enterprises. The company provides corporate users access to data center real estate and critical infrastructure management services.

Server Farm

Avner Papouchado, CEO

Headquarters: El Segundo, Calif.

Server Farm offers wholesale, retail and custom data center space through its eight North American data centers. Its custom proprietary software manages a number of data center space needs.

TierPoint

Jerald Kent, Chairman, CEO

Headquarters: St. Louis

TierPoint has a nationwide footprint of 38 data centers through which it provides co-location, cloud computing, backup and business continuity, and managed security.

ViaWest

Nancy Phillips, President, CEO

Headquarters: Greenwood Village, Colo.

With 30 enterprise-class data centers and cloud hosting centers in the U.S. and Canada, ViaWest provides co-location, cloud platform, security and compliance, disaster recovery and networking services.