April 1, 2009 - The Austin Chamber, through Opportunity Austin, is pleased to announce that CyrusOne, a leader in high-availability, high-density data center services, has made plans to open a new data center in Austin, Texas.

"We are excited about CyrusOne's decision to invest in Austin by locating its next data center in Central Texas," said Gary Farmer, Chair, Opportunity Austin and President, Heritage Title Company. "The addition of CyrusOne's uniquely designed facility is a great fit for Opportunity Austin's strategy to develop a high tech environment for existing local business as well as those entering the Austin market."

The 50,000 square-foot facility is located in Austin's premier data center business park, The MetCenter, which encompasses two on-site electric substations each with the capacity to reach 400 megawatts fed from separate power sources, an underground electrical infrastructure and redundant telecom and water infrastructure.

With the opening of the Austin data center, CyrusOne brings two "anchor" clients; one company in the Global Top 10 and the other in the Fortune 500, both are in the energy industry. These initial clients will allow CyrusOne to enter the market with positive operating income.

Austin is an attractive market for national and international enterprise colocation due to its low cost of stable power, an abundance of highly skilled technical labor, minimal risk for natural disasters and predictable weather conditions.

"We have always been drawn to Austin because of the city's vibrant culture and expanding technology industry, as well as its proximity to Houston and Dallas," said David Ferdman, President and Chief Executive Officer, CyrusOne. "Now that we've created a strong and differentiated data center colocation platform that has great momentum in the Dallas and Houston markets, we are ready to finally bring a best-in-class data center option to the Austin marketplace."

Unlike any provider in Austin, CyrusOne will provide its typical high power densities, fully redundant colocation services that are engineered in a 2N configuration for power and cooling. Disaster recovery and business continuity services in the Austin site will be available immediately for customers, while data center space will come online in the third quarter of 2009.

The data center will be fully engineered and constructed with today's best-in-class design, by the CyrusOne construction team with the same features present in the other CyrusOne facilities. Austin is an attractive market for national and international enterprise colocation due to its low cost of stable power, an abundance of highly skilled technical labor, minimal risk for natural disasters, and predictable weather conditions.

About Opportunity Austin
Opportunity Austin is the Austin Chamber of Commerce's five-year economic development initiative to foster sustainable growth through the creation of new jobs and increased payroll in the Central Texas region.

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 866.297.8766.