From the day CoreSite was founded over 20 years ago (initially as CRG West), the company has been driven by a core mission: to enable better ways of bringing together platforms, people, and portfolios.
Entering the Market with A Bang
In 2001, CRG West was established to meet the global network interconnection needs at One Wilshire®, the most interconnected building in the Western United States and one of the most densely interconnected data centers in the world. Dubbed LA1 and located in downtown Los Angeles, this building quickly put the company on the map, as it offers both unmatched connectivity to Asia-Pacific through multiple subsea cable landing sites and the ability to scale and evolve compute needs through the presence of hundreds of service providers.
In 2009, the company officially rebranded as CoreSite, a name indicative of the company’s capabilities, international connectivity reach, and mission-critical reliability. At that time, CoreSite had 11 data centers in seven U.S. markets. Over the next decade, the company invested in developing large-scale data center campuses and adding massive scale adjacent to its primary interconnection hubs. This strategy, coupled with the advent of cloud onramps, enabled CoreSite to become the home of hybrid IT. Their success and leadership in this area ultimately led to the company’s 2021 purchase by American Tower, a Fortune 500 company and worldwide leader in communications infrastructure.
Today, CoreSite owns and operates 28 data centers in 11 major communications markets across the U.S. and has a portfolio totaling roughly 4.6 million square feet of data center space. The company’s robust interconnection portfolio now features 24 direct cloud connections, or native cloud onramps, within its data centers to accelerate time to cloud while enabling customers to gain cost predictability by recouping surging cloud egress fees. In addition, CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange® software-defined networking platform enables customers to turn up and turn down connections to all of the partners in their digital workflows as quickly as needed and on a predictable month-to-month, subscription-based cost.
