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T5 Data Centers Receives Uptime Institute’s Continuous Availability Award for Uninterrupted Service

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Receipt of Uptime Award Illustrates T5 Data Centers’ Commitment to Total Availability Across All Facilities.

Atlanta, GA, USA (October 5, 2015) — T5 Data Centers™, innovators in providing state-of-the-art, customizable and highly reliable computing support environments, has received the Uptime Institute Network One Year Performance Award across its data center portfolio. The Uptime Institute Network recognizes member companies who achieve 100 percent uptime performance over designated periods. T5 Data Centers has never had an unplanned outage on any of their customers’ I.T. equipment due to power or cooling anomalies since the company began operations in 2012.

The Uptime Performance Awards were implemented in 1998, and are available only to member companies who have achieved continuous uptime of all I.T. equipment in their data centers. T5 Data Centers joined the Uptime Institute Network in January 2014 to further its goal of providing a Top Tier service to its customers. The One Year Performance Award was given to T5 Data Centers for uninterrupted service at the company’s T5@Atlanta, T5@Dallas, T5@Kings Mountain, and T5@Los Angeles data centers.

“This award validates T5’s commitment to providing customers with what we like to call Total Availability,” said Joe Parrino, Senior Vice President of T5 Facilities Management. “Maintaining Total Availability for our data centers is an absolute must – our reputation is completely dependent on our service reliability. We know our customer’s reputation is dependent on our ability to deliver Total Availability as well. T5 Data Centers is committed to providing the most reliable data centers in the market, which is demonstrated by the fact that we are being rewarded for uninterrupted service over the last year at all our facilities.”

In certifying that the data center maintains continuous operations, Gregory Lyon, Critical Facilities Manager and Vice President of Citizens Bank, said: “T5 Data Centers T5@Kings Mountain has provided Citizens Bank with 100 percent uptime of critical power and cooling systems service for our data hall. No outages have been recorded during the operational year and the facilities operation team at T5 has provided us with world-class data center maintenance and repair.”

One of the T5@LA customers noted, “The leadership and technical team… has provided a top-notch data center that resulted in no unplanned loss of power to both A-B sides of our dual-power supply equipment.”

Another satisfied customer wrote, “I wish to thank the entire staff at T5@Dallas for their hard work and dedication to a perfect year of uptime. Any incident that arose was handled with the utmost professionalism, ensuring 100 percent uptime for our critical IT load.”

For more information about T5’s retail colocation and data center services, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

About T5 Data Centers
T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its clients. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, Portland and Charlotte with new projects announced in New York, and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications, and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications.

For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

Media Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
(415) 292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com
http://www.t5datacenters.com

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T5 Data Centers Expects New Growth at T5@Kings Mountain Park with Passage of North Carolina Tax Incentives Act

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Passage of HB 117, the North Carolina Competes Act, Provides New Tax Abatements and Benefits Specifically Designed to Make North Carolina Attractive for Data Center Growth.

Kings Mountain, NC, USA — Executives at T5 Data Centers, innovators in providing state-of-the-art, customizable and highly reliable computing support environments, indicate that passage of House Bill 117, the North Carolina Competes Act, will create new growth opportunities for the company’s T5@Kings Mountain Data Center Park. The new legislation includes components specifically designed to promote growth of data centers within the state.

HB 117, the North Carolina Competes Act, includes a number of sales tax incentives, including privilege tax breaks specifically for data centers. Any equipment to be used in a data center such as servers, equipment, cooling systems, data storage, and other components is eligible for a new sales tax incentive capping the sales tax at 1 percent. The same incentive also has been extended to power such as the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity, including substations used for data center purposes. Equipment and electricity are two of the most expensive elements of data center operations, so waiving sales taxes can result in a huge savings. To qualify for the 1 percent privilege tax, data center owners and tenants must make a cumulative investment of $75 million over five years.

The North Carolina Competes Act also includes employment incentive programs and a reduction in personal income tax, making North Carolina more attractive for skilled workers.

“We have been actively working to see HB117 passed because we recognize that these tax incentives will promote technological growth in Cleveland County,” said Frank Lyles, Chief Business Officer for T5 Data Centers. “We already negotiated attractive property tax rates with Kings Mountain, and with these additional sales tax incentives on data center equipment and power, we believe Kings Mountain is the ideal location for organizations looking for a centrally located, high-performance, wholesale data center.”

T5 Data Centers already has agreements in place for 30-year rebates on real and personal property taxes with the City of Kings Mountain and with Cleveland County. The new sales tax incentives offered by HB 117 are now available in addition to the already low tax rates in the region.

The T5@Kings Mountain data center campus features turnkey, power shell and build-to-suit options within the 280-acre campus. The geographic location has a low occurrence of both natural and manmade disasters and the buildings are structurally enhanced to withstand winds up to 185 mph. The core and shell is LEED certified.

For more information about T5’s retail colocation and data center services, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

About T5 Data Centers
T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its clients. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, Portland and Charlotte with new projects announced in New York, and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications.

For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

Media Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
(415) 292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com
http://www.t5datacenters.com

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T5 Data Centers Launches T5 Enterprise Solutions, Offering Full Service Colocation, Managed Network, and Hybrid Direct-Cloud Connect Services

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T5@Atlanta and T5@LA Company’s First Regional Facilities to Offer T5 Enterprise Solutions™ Platform to Enable Customer IT Strategies.

Atlanta, GA, USA (October 1, 2015) — T5 Data Centers™, innovators in providing state-of-the-art, customizable and highly reliable computing support environments, today announced the launch of T5 Enterprise Solutions™, offering enterprise colocation, private/hybrid direct cloud connect, and managed network services at its T5@Atlanta and T5@LA data centers. With customers already signed at both locations, the new turnkey colocation and cloud-connect services are being added to T5’s core enterprise data center space allowing customers with needs of any size or complexity to contract with T5 for their various IT infrastructure requirements.

T5 Enterprise Solutions™ offers T5’s customers top-tier colocation solutions ranging from secure cabinets to fully dedicated suites with the ability to deploy secure and compliant private or hybrid cloud environments powered by the IIX direct cloud connect platform, Console. Utilizing Console, T5’s customers can directly connect to a global ecosystem of more than 1,100 Internet exchanges, Cloud, SaaS, and CDN providers on a flexible and scalable basis.

With its new service offering, T5 can now meet the data center needs of customers with virtually any size IT deployment or workflow requirement, including e-commerce, big data, ERP, storage, backup/DR, or high-density compute environments. And all of T5’s colocation customers get the advantage of T5’s robust data center infrastructure and operations with redundant systems and dedicated power.

“The launch of T5 Enterprise Solutions is part of a larger strategy to provide comprehensive data center services to our customers,” said Pete Marin, President and CEO of T5 Data Centers. “T5 continues to build its reputation by delivering superior service and exceeding the networking needs of our customers. Offering enterprise colocation expands our capabilities while simplifying decision-making for customers who need more than wholesale data center services.”

“This is our first step toward providing our customers with the ability to enable their IT strategies today and into the future. By offering a full portfolio of data center solutions, from scalable colocation and network connectivity services on one end of the spectrum to fully customizable, dedicated enterprise infrastructure on the other, we’re able to power virtually any business need.” said Craig McKesson, Executive Vice President of T5 and leader of T5 Enterprise Solutions. “We chose to start in the Atlanta and Los Angeles metro markets because of growing demand from our core customers in financial services, healthcare, media and entertainment, and technology for flexible, compliant IT solutions that better match with their evolving businesses.”

For more information about T5’s retail colocation and data center services, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

About T5 Data Centers
T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its clients. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, Portland and Charlotte with new projects announced in New York, and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications.

For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

Media Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
(415) 292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com
http://www.t5datacenters.com

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T5 Data Centers Signs New Financial Tenant for T5@Atlanta

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Superior Physical Security and Design Flexibility Attracts Financial Services Company Servicing Global Transactions.

Atlanta, GA, USA — T5 Data Centers™, innovators in providing state-of-the-art, customizable and highly reliable computing support environments, has signed a lease with a new tenant for its T5@Atlanta data center. This new financial services tenant provides global transaction processing services to banks and credit card companies, and it will be hosting its North American hub at T5@Atlanta.

T5’s reputation for enterprise quality solutions and flexibility proved to be key differentiators for this new tenant. For example, the level of secure access to the data center exceeded audit requirements, and the T5 team worked closely with the new tenant in designing a data center infrastructure that met their specific needs. The T5@Atlanta data center already houses several financial services firms so this tenant’s specifications were very familiar.

“We are attracting more financial services tenants and companies with business-critical requirements because of our service, our reputation for reliability, and our flexibility of solution and lease terms,” said Tim Bright, Executive Vice President of T5 Data Centers. “This particular client’s requirements were stringent to begin with, which eliminated a number of regional competitors, and our overall offering exceeded their compliance needs and gave them flexibility to grow. Finally, our ability to offer a superior infrastructure and a predictable real estate cost model made T5@Atlanta a logical choice for this company.”

T5@Atlanta is a purpose-built, Tier III, server-ready data center with multiple data suite sizes and densities within a secure, bunkered facility. T5@Atlanta houses over 100,000 square feet under one roof; including 55,000 square feet of raised floor. It also offers an installed critical IT power load of 6,000 kW, expandable to 9,000 kW.

One of the unique features of T5@Atlanta, is its power redundancy. T5@Atlanta is fed by five separate substations; two of them on Georgia Power’s “Hi-Reli” system for mission-critical users. The 25 kV feeds from the substations are encased in concrete with an automatic transfer switch on site, delivering flawless reliability. Three additional substations can also feed the facility if necessary, although the primary and secondary circuits have had a historical reliability in excess of Tier IV requirements.

T5@Atlanta is LEED Silver certified, offers tenants significant tax incentives, operational control of their whitespace with guaranteed power and cooling availability within the robust utility, and fiber-rich Alpharetta Technology corridor.

For more information about T5’s data center services, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

About T5 Data Centers
T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise and wholesale colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its clients. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Charlotte with new projects announced in Portland, New York, and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power, and telecommunications, and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications.

For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

Media Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
(415) 292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com
http://www.t5datacenters.com

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T5 Data Centers Fills T5@Dallas Facility with New Lease to Global Data Center Service Provider

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Success of T5@Dallas Prompts T5 Data Centers to Seek Expansion in Dallas.

Dallas, TX, USA (August 10, 2015) — T5 Data Centers™, innovators in providing state-of-the-art, customizable and highly reliable computing support environments, today announced that the company has signed a lease for a new 6 MW data center service tenant at its T5@Dallas facility. With the signing of this lease, the T5@Dallas wholesale data center campus now is 93 percent occupied.

In addition to the current lease, the new tenant also has obtained rights to install a customized data center of 20-25 MW on the adjacent 16-acre site owned by T5 Data Centers. As a byproduct of the new lease, the new tenant will bring more robust metro fiber connectivity and interconnection services into the building.

T5@Dallas now has tenants in all of its four independent data centers with leases to a financial services company, a telecommunications provider, and now a data center service company. Texas-4 is housed inside the T5@Dallas wholesale data center facility, a purpose-built, 315,000 square-foot building on a 20-acre site located in Legacy Business Park in Plano, Texas. The entire T5@Dallas facility is LEED-Silver Certified and built to withstand winds up to 221 miles per hour. It has dual primary power feeds connected to two separate substations, and is concurrently maintainable (mechanically and electrically) and fault tolerant (electrically).

“The Legacy Business Park continues to be the location of choice for the discerning corporate user,” said Pete Marin, President and CEO of T5 Data Centers. “With only one data hall of 1.5mw remaining in T5@Dallas available for lease, we are excited to be expanding our presence in Dallas very soon.”

All of T5 Data Centers’ regional facilities are designed from the ground up to support wide-ranging workloads including high-performance computing for applications such as big data and hybrid cloud deployments to allow flexibility for future needs. For more information about T5’s retail colocation and data center services, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

About T5 Data Centers
T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise and wholesale colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its clients. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Charlotte with new projects announced in Portland, New York, and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications, and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications. For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
415-292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com
http://www.t5datacenters.com

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T5 Data Centers(TM) Names Glen Peters SVP of Finance

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New Senior VP Role Part of Larger Realignment of the Senior Team to Manage Growth.

Atlanta, GA, USA (December 10, 2014) — T5 Data Centers™, innovators in providing state-of-the-art, customizable and highly reliable computing support environments for any enterprise, has named Glen Peters to the newly created position of Senior Vice President of Finance. The new appointment is just the latest step in a series strategic executive appointments designed to prepare T5 for future growth.

Peters joins T5 Data Centers from Dewberry Capital in Atlanta where he served as Vice President of Finance and Administration. Glen also has worked with Lend Lease for 15 years, working in various real estate and leadership roles spanning the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Glen is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelors degree in Economics, Accounting, and Finance from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

“We were fortunate to be able to recruit Glen to expand our finance team,” said Peter Marin, President and CEO of T5. “He has the right background in finance and real estate to oversee the expansion of T5’s data center facilities. This is also the right time to realign our senior team, moving key executives into new roles that will give the company more versatility and make us more nimble so we can take advantage of new market opportunities.” Aaron Wangenheim has been promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Craig McKesson has been named Executive Vice President, Colocation and Cloud Solutions. Tim Bright has been named Executive Vice President, Wholesale Sales Lead. In addition, Mike Casey has been appointed president of T5 Facilities Management, a T5 Data Centers company.

In the past year, T5 Data Centers has announced the opening of a new data center operation in the metropolitan New York area, groundbreaking on a new data center in Portland’s Silicon Forest, and new tenants at its T5@Dallas, T5@Portland, and T5@Atlanta locations. T5 also launched T5 Facilities Management as a third-party service to deliver comprehensive data center infrastructure support.

About T5 Data Centers
T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise and wholesale colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its clients. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Charlotte with new projects announced in Portland, New York, and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications.

For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
(415) 292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com
http://www.t5datacenters.com

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T5 Data Centers(TM) Signs New T5@LA Tenant Seeking Metro LA Data Center Location for Content Delivery

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Signing of New Multimedia Customer Demonstrates that Los Angeles Continues to Be a Robust Market for State-of-the-Art Data Center Services.

Los Angeles, CA, USA (December 10, 2014) — T5 Data Centers™, innovators in providing state-of-the-art, customizable and highly reliable computing support environments for any enterprise, today announced that its southern California data center facility, T5@LA, has signed a lease with a new tenant seeking a robust data center to support regional content delivery. The contract calls for T5@LA to provide comprehensive data center services including smart hands support to manage on site operations.

T5@LA is a purpose-built, wholesale data center with 181,489 square feet of space under one roof. Located in El Segundo near Los Angeles International Airport, T5@LA was selected for its location in the heart of metro Los Angeles, bringing data delivery services closer to consumers throughout southern California. The proximity of the data center in the second largest MSA in the United States makes T5@LA the ideal facility to deliver streaming content with minimal latency. And T5@LA is seismically enhanced with redundant systems and a dedicated power system to ensure uninterrupted service.

“Completing this latest lease agreement shows that there is an ongoing need for cost effective, highly reliable data centers in metropolitan markets such as Los Angeles,” said Aaron Wangenheim, Chief Operating Officer for T5 Data Centers. “We are seeing more customers who want to deliver content as part of their data center operations, including providers who want to maintain their online products close to their customers. By maintaining state-of-the-art data facilities in major metropolitan markets like Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, and Dallas, we are in an ideal position to service these types of companies.”

About T5 Data Centers

T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise and wholesale colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its clients. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Charlotte with new projects announced in Portland, New York, and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications.

For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
(415) 292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com
http://www.t5datacenters.com

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T5 Data Centers(TM) Breaks Ground on T5@Portland Data Center Campus

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T5 Begins Construction on Silicon Forest’s Most Advanced Wholesale Colocation Data Center to Accommodate Growing Demand for Business-critical Computing in the Pacific Northwest.

Hillsboro, OR, USA (September 16, 2014) — T5 Data Centers™, innovators in providing state-of-the-art, customizable and highly reliable computing support environments for any enterprise, today announced that the company has broken ground on T5@Portland, a two building wholesale colocation data center campus in suburban Portland. The company is also pleased to announce that a Fortune 100 company has already leased T5@Portland’s first building.

T5@Portland is the first purpose-built, state-of-the-art data center campus to be constructed in the Silicon Forest. The new data center campus will consist of two separate buildings; one of which has already been pre-leased. The second building will be a 110,000 square foot, nine (9) critical megawatt data center and pre-leasing is already underway for this facility. The T5@Portland data centers should be ready for occupancy in early summer 2015.

Like T5’s entire portfolio of data centers, T5@Portland’s facilities are purpose-built and offer server-ready IT solutions capable of housing multiple independent data center tenants. T5@Portland is being constructed to LEED Silver specification, and will take advantage of the coastal Pacific Northwest climate to offset cooling costs and maximize power usage effectiveness (PUE) of the data centers. The T5@Portland data centers will also have extremely reliable power from two redundant power feeds into the facility and are being designed as high-performance, highly efficient, seismic secure, purpose-built data centers.

“We have built a national reputation for delivering high-quality data centers that provide superior reliability,” said Aaron Wangenheim, Chief Marketing Officer for T5 Data Centers, “and this project is another great example of that philosophy. T5@Portland meets all the criteria that enterprise customers are looking for – purpose built performance, high resiliency and low cost. T5’s strategy is to continue to build the best data centers in the best locations.”

In addition to its technical specification, T5@Portland tenants will be able to take advantage of the favorable business and economic climate of Oregon, and specifically the City of Hillsboro. The area offers a number of economic incentives, including tax exemptions to stimulate e-commerce and technology companies, including significant sales and property tax benefits. With the combination of low-cost infrastructure, attractive economic incentives, flexible control over customer operational space, and guaranteed power, T5@Portland promises to be one of the most attractive corporate data center colocation options in the Pacific Northwest.

T5@Portland is one of seven sites across the United States within the T5 Data Centers portfolio, all designed with the same attention to reliability and service. Each data center is purpose-built to give customers total control of their own dedicated data hall so T5’s customers can better manage their Total Cost of Occupancy.

About T5 Data Centers
T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise and wholesale colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its clients. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Charlotte with new projects announced in Portland, New York, and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications.

For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
(415) 292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com
http://www.t5datacenters.com

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Skybox Datacenters and T5 Facilities Management Partner to Bring Top Tier Data Center Operations to Skybox Houston One

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Skybox Datacenters Teams with T5 Facilities Management to Launch Turnkey Data Center Services to Companies in the Houston Energy Corridor.

Houston, TX, USA (September 9, 2014) — Skybox Datacenters™, a Dallas-based data center developer, today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with T5 Facilities Management (T5FM). Through this strategic partnership, Skybox will offer move-in ready wholesale data centers in mid-market locations operated by the same team that operates T5 Data Centers’™ national portfolio of wholesale data centers. Construction on the first data center initiative, Skybox Houston One, is expected to be completed in November and it will be commissioned in January 2015.

Skybox Datacenters recently broke ground on its Skybox Houston One facility, an 86,960-square-foot purpose-built data center with four independent data halls; the first wholesale data center to serve the Houston Energy Corridor. The new Skybox Houston One facility offers dedicated data halls at 1.2 to 2.4 MW each with lower overall total cost of operations than retail data centers. Additionally, Skybox uniquely offers tenants the ability to procure and negotiate their own power contracts directly with the provider of their choice. Under the partnership agreement, Skybox will serve as landlord and T5FM will provide facilities support and operations management for Skybox Houston One.

“Skybox and T5 have very similar philosophies as to how to best serve data center customers, and through this partnership we can bring T5’s facilities management expertise to new customers in mid-market regions,” said Mike Casey, COO of T5. “The expertise and protocols that existing T5 customers rely on will adapt quite well to Skybox’s clientele.”

T5FM offers comprehensive on-site data center management; the same comprehensive facilities management that T5 uses in its data centers in Atlanta, Colorado, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, North Carolina, and Portland. T5FM will apply the same kind of best practices used in all of T5’s data centers, including policies and procedures to mitigate risk and eliminate operational concerns with an emphasis on safety, training, and communications.

“The strategic partnership between Skybox Datacenters and T5FM will bring the best data center management expertise available to our customers,” said Rob Morris, Managing Partner, Skybox Datacenters. “This partnership allows us to focus on our core development business while knowing that the T5FM team will keep operations running smoothly. It’s a great marriage.”

Using this wholesale data center business model, Skybox will lease self-contained data center halls to customers, each with its own dedicated mechanical and electrical infrastructure, so customers retain total operational control. An on-site T5FM team will provide infrastructure support. Skybox Houston One is specifically designed to cater to the needs of oil and gas, healthcare, and other large corporations in the region to meet their business-critical, high-performance, ultra low latency computing needs.

About Skybox Datacenters

Skybox Datacenters builds and owns world-class data center facilities for enterprise grade users with ultra-low latency connectivity and mission critical resiliency as a core focus of our platform. Each Skybox facility is uniquely crafted to its particular market and the demands of its users. Skybox focuses on purpose-built facilities in the wholesale segment of the market and is capable of speculative and build-to-suit projects. Skybox Datacenters is a joint venture between Rugen Street Capital and Bandera Ventures.

For more information, visit http://www.skyboxdatacenters.com.

About T5 Data Centers

T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise and wholesale colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its customers. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Charlotte with new projects announced in Portland, New York, and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications.

For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com/facilities-management.

Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
(415) 292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com

Gordon Kellerman
Skybox Datacenters
(713) 999-4400
gordon@skyboxdatacenters.com

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T5 Facilities Management Names John Ducic to New Role Director, T5 Facilities Management

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New T5 Facilities Management Company Adds Experienced Data Center Expert to Manage T5 West Coast Operations.

Los Angeles, CA, USA (August 6, 2014) — T5 Facilities Management (T5FM, http://www.t5datacenters.com/facilities-management), a new company launched by T5 Data Centers™, today announced the addition of John Ducic as Director, T5 Facilities Management, for T5’s west coast operations. In this position, Ducic will be responsible for managing T5 Data Centers’ western regional facilities, T5@LA and T5@Portland, as well as overseeing T5FM client data centers throughout the western region.

Ducic has more than 15 years of data center management experience and comes to T5FM from CoreSite Realty Corporation, where he served as Senior Facilities Manager. Ducic’s expertise spans all aspects of data center operations, including infrastructure design and deployment, power distribution and management, HVAC and chiller management, emergency protocols, routine system maintenance, and much more. Ducic holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Los Angeles.

“John’s diverse background in data center design and operations is just what we need for our T5 Facilities Management team,” said Mike Casey, COO of T5 Facilities Management. “John understands all the inner workings of data center operations, from power to cooling, and his experience will prove valuable for managing both of T5’s western wholesale data centers and T5FM’s new data center clients.”

Ducic’s role on the west coast complements Raymond Caponi’s position as Director, T5 Facilities Management for the east coast, and Andy Salcido’s role as Vice President, T5 Facilities Management, who oversees the T5@Dallas data center campus. Caponi is headquartered in Charlotte and Salcido is located in Dallas.

Launched last month, T5FM is the only data center management firm operated by the same organization that owns and operates the T5 Data Centers, the finest top tier, state-of-the-art data centers in the United States. T5FM provides contract on-site support to any data center operator, bringing the same expertise in data center operations that used to manage T5 Data Center’s seven U.S. locations.

For more information about T5FM, visit them online at http://www.t5datacenters.com/facilities-management.

About T5 Data Centers

T5 Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers that provide an “always on” computing environment to power mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides enterprise and wholesale colocation data center services to organizations across North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible total cost of operations for its customers. T5 currently has business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Charlotte with new projects announced in Portland, New York, and Colorado. All of T5’s data center projects are purpose-built facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications and have 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications.

For more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com.

Contact:
Aaron Wangenheim
T5 Data Centers
(415) 292-7700
aaron@t5datacenters.com
http://www.t5datacenters.com