May 17, 2017

Switch Leads Consumers Energy’s Program To Bring 100% Renewable Energy to Michigan Businesses

Switch NEWS (source: Consumers Energy Press Release, May 15, 2017)

Switch Data Center in Grand Rapids Would Be New Program’s First Customer JACKSON, Mich., May 15, 2017 – Consumers Energy is making good on its commitment to a clean Michigan future by working with large businesses — including the new Switch Pyramid data center in West Michigan — that want to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy. The Michigan…

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May 12, 2017

Michigan Governor Declares Switch PYRAMID Data Center “Awesome” at Official Grand Opening

Switch NEWS

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder joined Rob and Stella Roy, and a host of the state’s political, economic development and local leadership to “cut the ribbon” marking the official grand opening of the iconic Switch PYRAMID data center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “This was an iconic building in Michigan.  To see it transformed by Switch into the most advanced, largest data…

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April 7, 2017

Switch Leads Sponsorship of Exciting West Michigan FIRST^® Robotics Competition

Press Release

Support for the STEAM event continues Switch’s commitment to being a community leader Grand Rapids, MI — Switch was proud to be the lead sponsor for the FIRST Robotics Competition in Kentwood, Michigan that kicked off on March 30th, 2017; an event that combines the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology.  More than 40 teams from around the region…

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April 2, 2017

Rackspace and Switch Join Forces to Deliver Digital Transformation Services to Customers in Switch’s Tier 5® Platinum Data Centers

Press Release

New agreement will make it easier for Switch colocation customers to use Rackspace managed services for private and public clouds, security, data and applications LAS VEGAS – Switch and Rackspace today announced a new agreement to deliver Rackspace private cloud solutions and connectivity to managed public cloud solutions on AWS, Azure and Google in Switch’s highly…

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March 21, 2017

Betsy Fretwell Joins Switch As Senior Vice President Of Switch SMART, Company’s New Smart City Division

Press Release

Nationally Recognized Las Vegas City Manager To Implement Vision For The World’s Most Advanced Smart City Ecosystem LAS VEGAS—Switch, the technology infrastructure ecosystem company that is powering the future of the connected world, announced today that Las Vegas City Manager, Betsy Fretwell, will be joining the company in July of this year as Senior Vice President of Switch…

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March 21, 2017

Switch’s Rapid Response Enables New Hospital Customer to Uphold Patient Safety During Emergency

Switch NEWS

Utilizes the Power of The SUPERLOOP and Saves the Day for a Top Critical Access Hospital in Rural Nevada In less than 48 hours of receiving an emergency call, Switch extends fiber Internet services into Mt. Grant General Hospital from the 500-mile SUPERLOOP high-speed backbone to keep one of the nation’s top Critical Access Hospitals online. Todd Radtke, CIO…

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March 9, 2017

Switch GRAND RAPIDS Now Open: The Largest, Most Advanced Data Center Campus in the Eastern U.S.

Press Release

First Phase of the 1.8 Million-Square-Foot Data Center Campus Completed and Now Open WATCH PYRAMID CAMPUS VIDEO GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Switch, a globally recognized leader in future-proof data center design, superscale cloud, unparalleled telecom gateways and energy sustainability, today announced the opening of the largest, most advanced data center campus in the Eastern U.S. –– Switch GRAND RAPIDS,…

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February 14, 2017

Switch TAHOE RENO Now Open: Largest, Most Advanced Data Center Campus in the World

Press Release

The superscale TAHOE RENO 1 data center in Northern Nevada is the world’s largest colocation facility WATCH TAHOE RENO VIDEO RENO, Nev. — Switch, a globally recognized leader in future-proof data center design, superscale cloud, unparalleled telecom gateways and energy sustainability, today announced the opening of the largest, most advanced data center campus in the world – also…

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January 9, 2017

Greenpeace Report Concludes Switch Scored Among The Highest In The World For Sustainability Among All Internet Companies

Press Release

Greenpeace Recognizes Switch As One Of the Definitive Industry Leaders For Its Use Of 100% Locally Sourced Renewable Energy Switch is the first multi-tenant data center provider in the world to receive all A’s in the six-year history of Greenpeace’s Clicking Clean report. The grades published in the 2017 report reflect Switch’s use of 100 percent renewable energy for all…

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November 17, 2016

Why Switch Created the Energy Choice Initiative: A New Energy Future for a New Nevada Economy

Switch NEWS

Switch Founder and CEO Rob Roy shares the importance of the passage of Question 3 and what energy choice means to Nevadans. One truth in today’s world is that technology and innovation wait for no one. We are all witnesses to technological advances that touch every single aspect of our lives, occurring at such a fast pace that it is often…

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September 16, 2016

Switch Launches STEAM Village To Promote Education

WOOD TV

Switch’s interactive learning lab makes its debut at 8th Annual ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan. An interactive, new ArtPrize Eight attraction aimed at helping kids start thinking about their future careers opens Saturday. Many people have heard of STEM education which focuses on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). But, ArtPrize Eight officials are supporting the efforts of a number…

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July 18, 2016

Switch’s Jason Mendenhall Shares Insight On How Cloud Growth Drives Wholesale Demand

Data Center Frontier

Data Center Frontier’s quarterly Roundtable column showcases thought leadership on the state of the data center industry and where it is headed. Welcome to our fourth Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. In our Second Quarter 2016 roundtable, we will…

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July 14, 2016

Switch Is Building The Best Workforce By Investing In Its Employees

Data Center Frontier

Switch’s Tracy Brown discusses the unique education partnerships and workforce training initiatives that help build elite teams. Building the best colocation data centers on the planet requires more than an agile technology ecosystems. It is important to develop a talented team to operate and maintain them. Just like Switch Founder and CEO Rob Roy thought about modern-day data center design…

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June 3, 2016

Switch Awarded The President’s Medal From DRI For Its Outstanding Dedication

Press Release

The DRI President’s Medal recognized Switch for its outstanding and significant dedication to furthering the Institute’s mission and goals through time, support and expertise. On Thursday, June 2 more than 200 people gathered at the Reno and Las Vegas campuses of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute to celebrate the scientific and academic achievement of the Institute’s faculty and students. DRI’s Annual…

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April 27, 2016

Switch Partners With Radware To Provide Attack Mitigation To Its SUPERNAP Data Centers

Press Release

World’s Largest Colocation Data Centers Utilizing Radware’s DDoS Mitigation System and Scrubbing Center Capabilities to Protect Its Customers Against Cyber Attacks Radware® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions ensuring optimal service level for applications in virtual, cloud and software defined data centers, announced that Switch has chosen Radware’s DDoS…

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April 12, 2016

Switch Executive Vice President Lesley McVay Honored As “Top Five Influential Women In The Data Center Industry”

Press Release

Switch’s Entire Industry-Leading Female Executive Team Lauded Switch Executive Vice President of Data Center Services Lesley McVay has been selected as one of the top five most influential women in the data center industry by Colocation America. Colocation America’s 5th annual Top 5 list honors women in the technology industry who are outstanding strategic leaders, as well as advocates for…

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March 2, 2016

Barrick’s switch to Switch brings cost savings, new possibilities in data management

Barrick Beyond Borders

Barrick Beyond Borders “If our ambition is to be world class at an operational level, it’s not enough to have great mining assets. We must also develop our data management capabilities.” Five years ago, Barrick’s data and storage servers were housed at five data centers around the world. Soon they will be housed at just one: the Switch data…

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March 2, 2016

Switch Becomes The Only Carrier-Neutral Data Center Company In History To Receive A Tier IV Gold Rating On Two Separate Data Center Facilities

Press Release

Switch’s Globally Recognized SUPERNAP Data Centers Are Being Replicated Into Northern Nevada, Michigan, Italy & Thailand Switch has become the first carrier-neutral data center provider in the world to receive two Uptime Institute Tier IV Gold Certifications for its SUPERNAP data centers. SUPERNAP 9, a 471,248-square-foot data facility that opened in August 2015, is the second Switch data center to…

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January 21, 2016

Switch Announces Plans To Make SUPERNAP Michigan Data Centers 100 Percent Green; Joins WWF/WRI Renewable Buyers’ Energy Principles

Press Release

Switch Working with Local Utility Consumers Energy to Create New Renewable Generation in Michigan Switch, builders of the world’s highest rated data centers, announced plans for its SUPERNAP Michigan data center near Grand Rapids to be powered by 100 percent renewable energy. As part of this announcement and Switch’s continued commitment to run all of its data centers on green…

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January 5, 2016

Switch Starts 2016 As The World’s Largest Colocation Data Center To Be 100% Green

Press Release

Fulfilling its White House American Business Act on Climate Pledge, Switch Will Be Powered By 180 MW Of New Solar In Nevada As of today, Switch and all of its SUPERNAP data centers and its more than 1,000 clients who are colocated at their facilities, are powered by 100 percent renewable energy, making Switch the world’s largest colocation data center…

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December 16, 2015

Switch Begins Construction on the Largest Data Center Campus in the Eastern U.S.

mLIVE

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Switch is on. West Michigan business leaders woke up in the mood to celebrate on Wednesday, Dec. 16. It was the morning after a late night session in which the state legislature approved tax breaks aimed at attracting the largest data center in the eastern United States to the former Steelcase pyramid. “Today,…

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December 16, 2015

Switch Confirms Plans for Massive Michigan Data Center

Data Center Frontier

Switch has confirmed plans to build a massive SUPERNAP data center complex in Grand Rapids, Michigan after the passage of tax incentives that were crucial to the deal. The Las Vegas company, which operates a huge cloud campus in Las Vegas, plans to invest as much as $5 billion in a data center complex at the former Steelcase…

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November 23, 2015

Switch Ranked #1 out of Top 10 Cloud Campus Ecosystems

Data Center Frontier

Today we provide a look inside the Top 10 Cloud Campuses, the places where the cloud resides. Cloud campuses is our term for the sites where technology titans concentrate massive amounts of computing power in multiple data center facilities. These huge campuses are where the cloud lives – the physical manifestation of the Internet, often located in rural areas offering…

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September 9, 2015

SUPERNAP: The New “Fort Knox” in the Desert

Wall Street Daily

Data. One small word… but an incredibly massive industry. Longtime readers will know that we’ve highlighted Big Data as a major tech growth trend since we started publishing Wall Street Daily. Indeed, just a few weeks ago, I wrote about a shift among companies towards using third-party data centers. The goal? To increase their uptime and internet connectivity speed, as…

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August 24, 2015

Switch becomes first data center provider to join White House American Business Act on Climate Pledge

Yevgeniy Sverdlik Data Center Knowledge

Switch, the operator of a large data center campus in Las Vegas called SUPERNAP, has joined the second round of pledges by private-sector companies to invest millions of dollars into combating climate change under a White House-led initiative. President Barack Obama’s administration unveiled the initiative, called the American Business Act on Climate Pledge, in July and announced that 13 of…

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August 13, 2015

Switch hosts ribbon-cutting for grand opening of SUPERNAP LAS VEGAS 9

Press Release

See Grand Opening Video Here Switch hosts ribbon-cutting for grand opening of SUPERNAP LAS VEGAS 9 SUPERNAP LAS VEGAS campus nearing 2 million square feet LAS VEGAS – August 13, 2015 – Switch, the Nevada-born technology solutions company, has just opened the doors of its newest 470,000-square-foot colocation data center SUPERNAP LAS VEGAS 9. The data center…

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July 20, 2015

With seven women among its top 14 executives, Switch sets itself apart

Daniel Rothberg VEGAS Inc.

When Missy Young, now an executive vice president at Las Vegas data company Switch, was 12, she remembers her mother “banging her head against the glass ceiling” as the only female vice president at a bank. She was paid $50,000 per year less than her male colleagues. “That’s not fair,” Young told her mother at the time. “You should make…

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July 9, 2015

Game company plans $50 million expansion into Southern Nevada

Las Vegas Sun

Machine Zone, Inc., the company behind “Game of War: Fire Age” — the top grossing iPhone game in 30 countries — announced plans Thursday to expand its operation into Southern Nevada. The company is expected to make a $50 million investment in the state, in large part by purchasing up to 4,000 servers. Machine Zone has already signed a lease…

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May 29, 2015

Switch announces investment in downtown Reno Innevation Center

By Staff Report University of Nevada Reno

The vibrant, innovation ecosystem taking hold in Nevada will be further strengthened thanks to an investment by Switch, the recognized world leader in data-center development and mission-critical operations. Switch is funding the half-million-dollar interior build-out of the University of Nevada, Reno’s Innevation Center in downtown Reno, creating a hub of innovation and commercialization. The Innevation Center, “powered by Switch,”…

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January 21, 2015

Switch Plans Massive $1 Billion SUPERNAP Data Center in Reno

By Rich Miller Data Center Knowledge

Few data center providers build bigger than Switch. Today the Las Vegas company unveiled plans for its largest project yet, a $1 billion, 3 million square foot SUPERNAP data center campus on 1,000 acres of land near Reno, Nevada. E-commerce giant eBay Inc. will be the anchor tenant for the SUPERNAP Reno, which will connect to the main SUPERNAP campus…

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October 24, 2014

CenturyLink Moves into Switch SUPERNAP in Vegas

Data Center Knowledge

CenturyLink announced it has signed a data center services deal with Switch Tuesday. CenturyLink will sell space in one of Switch’s Las Vegas facilities, while Switch customers will have access to the Monroe, Louisiana-based telco’s extensive data center services portfolio. The Switch SUPERNAP campus in Vegas is well known for its sleek design, massive size and ex-military security personnel. CenturyLink…

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October 14, 2014

Shutterfly Deploys 1,000 Cabinets at SUPERNAP Ecosystem

Shutterfly Deploys 1,000 Cabinets at SUPERNAP Ecosystem

Las Vegas, Nevada – Tuesday, October 14, 2014 – Switch SUPERNAP, the world leader in data center ecosystem design, development and mission critical operations, announced it has executed a seven-year contract with Shutterfly, Inc. to provide colocation and connectivity services. Shutterfly, Inc. is the leading manufacturer and digital retailer of high-quality personalized products and services offered through a family of…

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September 7, 2014

Switch SUPERNAP and Intel Collaborate with UNLV to Boost Scientific Research and Economic Development

SUPERNAP News

Joe Lombardo – Executive Director of National Supercomputing Center for Energy and Environment, UNLV John White – EVP and Provost, UNLV | Don Snyder – UNLV President | Bryan Wolfe – VP, Managing Director, Intel Capital Rob Roy – CEO and Founder, Switch | Charlie Wuischpard – VP, Intel | Dr. Mark Seager – CTO, Intel Martin Leslie – Business…

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August 26, 2014

Switch SUPERNAP Partners With 6fusion For Better Usage And Cost Transparency

Data Center Knowledge

Switch SUPERNAP has partnered with 6fusion for better cost transparency. 6fusion’s technology and utility methodology will be integrated into SUPERNAP’s technology environment to provide cost transparency through 6fusion’s patented unit of measure, the Workload Allocation Cube (WAC). The partnership will form the cornerstone of the recently announced spot market for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, where WAC will serve as the standard unit of…

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August 5, 2014

SUPERNAP 8 Earns Tier IV Gold Status for Operations

By Rich Miller Data Center Knowledge

Uptime isn’t just about having a resilient facility. Human error is among the leading causes of data center outages, underlining the importance of a well-trained staff and operational best practices. The team at Switch in Las Vegas has now met the highest standards on both fronts. After earning Tier IV certification from the Uptime Institute earlier this year, Switch’s SUPERNAP…

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September 5, 2013

Switch On-boards 64 Small Business Clients in 60 Days

Press Release

High Demand for Single Cabinet Space Means Additional Growth for Switch Switch, the developer of the renowned SUPERNAPS, the largest, best-designed technology ecosystems in the world, is rapidly selling single cabinet space to meet high customer demand for secure, cost-effective and scalable colocation, connectivity and cloud services. Over the last 60 days, Switch has on-boarded 64 single cabinet, small business…

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September 5, 2013

Switch SUPERNAPS Achieve Record Sales in August

News Release

Company Sells 19 Megawatts of Power in One Month LAS VEGAS, NV – Switch, the developer of the world-renowned SUPERNAPS, today announced it has sold a record-breaking 19 megawatts of power to 23 clients during the month of August. SUPERNAP 8 opened in April 2013 and represents Switch’s most innovative data center design to date. Switch is the world’s most…

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June 20, 2013

LaunchKey Announces Public Beta Hosted at Switch SUPERNAP

Press Release

Secure, Password-free Authentication Application LAS VEGAS, NV – June 20, 2013 – LaunchKey, a secure approach to sign on or authenticate without passwords by using a multi-factor authentication process on a smartphone or tablet, launched its private beta in May and plans to launch its public beta on July 1. During the private beta, hosted at the Switch SUPERNAP, LaunchKey…

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June 13, 2013

Bluelock Joins the Switch CLOUD CITY Ecosystem Enabling True Hybrid Cloud Deployments at the Switch SUPERNAP

Press Release

Bluelock Gives Switch SUPERNAP Customers Access to its Full Range of Virtual Datacenter Offerings (Indianapolis, Ind. – June 6, 2013) – Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud® Datacenter provider of virtual datacenters hosted in the public cloud, is proud to announce it has joined the Switch C.U.B.E (Cloud Ubiquitous Business Exchange) inside the Switch CLOUD CITY, giving customers located in the…

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May 30, 2013

Switch SUPERNAP Named as the First and Only Registered Hosting Center for Online Gaming by the Nevada Gaming Commission

Press Release

LAS VEGAS, May 30, 2013 – Switch, the developer of the renowned SUPERNAPS, the largest, best-designed technology ecosystems in the world, today announced it has been registered as the first and only online gaming hosting center by the Nevada Gaming Commission. The SUPERNAPS are designed and invented by Switch CEO and Founder Rob Roy. The Nevada Gaming Commission registered the…

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