CoreSite Celebrates VA3 Data Center Grand Opening

CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR), a premier provider of secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions in major U.S. metropolitan areas, recently celebrated the Grand Opening of its newest colocation facility VA3 in Reston, Virginia.

Continued Growth at CoreSite’s Reston Campus

The CoreSite Reston campus and the continued growth and expansion with VA3 provides the CoreSite customer community with the immediate benefits of a rich ecosystem of natively deployed networks, cloud on-ramps, and solution partners. As of June 30, 2019, CoreSite’s Northern Virginia market was comprised of over 280 customers, which includes approximately 40 cloud providers, 170 enterprises, and 70 network providers. Additionally, the Fairfax County location allows CoreSite to serve the native base of enterprises, systems integrators, universities, and governmental agencies with the lowest latency to the largest public clouds.

“The CoreSite Reston campus provides customers cloud connectivity and delivers the highest security and performance, low latency, with the lowest cost of cloud service utilization,” said Juan Font, CoreSite’s Senior Vice President, General Management.

“With over 100MW of expected capacity for the Reston Campus Expansion, and the multi-cloud capabilities of the CoreSite platform, we are in a position to deliver the maximum degree of scale, operational flexibility and performance throughout the entire lifecycle of customers’ digital transformation journey,” said Font.

Supporters and Speakers

“Thank you to Hunter Mill District Supervisor Hudgins and her team for her unwavering support of CoreSite over the years,” said Font. “We are also very thankful for the resourcefulness and commitment of the Fairfax Land Development Services team, as well as the Economic Development Authority.”

“Additionally, our thanks to Bobbie Kilberg, President and CEO of the Northern Virginia Technology Council for joining and providing her perspective with the opening remarks and participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.”

Grand Opening Sponsors

CoreSite also sends special thanks to its sponsors for their participation and support of the VA3 grand opening, as well as the contribution to the Northern Virginia Community College Loudon County Campus Data Center Operations Technology Scholarship Fund. CoreSite was pleased to present a donation to provide tuition assistance to 15 students participating in this program.

About CoreSite

CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR) delivers secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions to a growing customer ecosystem across eight key North American markets. More than 1,350 of the world’s leading enterprises, network operators, cloud providers, and supporting service providers choose CoreSite to connect, protect and optimize their performance-sensitive data, applications and computing workloads. Our scalable, flexible solutions and 450+ dedicated employees consistently deliver unmatched data center options — all of which leads to a best-in-class customer experience and lasting relationships. For more information, visit www.CoreSite.com.

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