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DATA CENTER PROVIDER REITS OFFER ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENT VEHICLES

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Data center provider Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, have become an exciting new option for those investors looking for income and tax advantages. Traditionally, REITs have focused on commercial real estate ownership in shopping centers, office buildings, apartments, industrial complexes and health care facilities. But as investors look for higher dividends, non-traditional real estate ownership offers new opportunities. Learn more about Data Center Provider Services by visiting http://www.cyrusone.com/.

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DATA CENTER PROVIDER REITS OFFER ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENT VEHICLES

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DATA CENTER PROVIDER REITS OFFER ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENT VEHICLES

REITs have become new option for investors looking for income and tax advantages

Traditionally REITs focused on commercial real estate ownership

Investors are looking for higher dividends and at non-traditional real estate ownership, which opens up to new opportunities

Through data center provider REITs, investors can take advantage of significant diversification

Broadening scope of available options, investors get better returns

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DATA CENTER PROVIDER REITS OFFER ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENT VEHICLES

High Growth on the Horizon for Data Center Providers Providers are expected significant growth in coming years New technologies, services and market dynamics fuels this

growth Cloud computing has moved from marketing hype to legitimate

business solution Survey shows, CIOs will adopt cloud strategies in coming year 40% of corporate executives have deployed cloud technologies

in 2012 Another driver is data storage

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DATA CENTER PROVIDER REITS OFFER ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENT VEHICLES

High Growth on the Horizon for Data Center Providers According to 451 Research Group, over 2.33 billion people were on

the Internet as of January 2012. Over one trillion smartphones were in use at same time and 500 million new smartphones are added each year

Other findings from research: ninety percent of digital data created within past two years; approx nine million servers are purchased worldwide each year; Facebook alone manages approx 25 Terabytes of data daily

Mobile media will impact growth very substantially. Access to data and applications will create additional demand for data center provider services

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DATA CENTER PROVIDER REITS OFFER ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENT VEHICLES

Why Won’t Companies Build their Own Data Centers? Technologies are often proprietary, outdated and can’t

accommodate new architectures. Older platforms lack power capabilities to function in today’s high density data center

Updating of building a company’s data center costs millions. Enterprises pay much lower, fixed monthly operating expenses

Leased space from multi-tenant data center provider reduces risk, gets latest technologies, scales operations as needed, implement disaster recovery plan, brings products to market quicker

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DATA CENTER PROVIDER REITS OFFER ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENT VEHICLES

Investing in Data Center Provider REITs Research findings predict positive growth outlook for data

center providers According to 451 Research Group, demand for North American

multi-tenant data storage has grown exponentially Predictions from 2010 to 2014 show market size estimated to

increase by 18.65% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Growth suggest data center REITs have higher probability experiencing reliable dividends

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ABOUT THE AUTHORSCOTT BRUEGGEMAN IS CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER FOR CYRUSONE, A GLOBAL ENTERPRISE COLOCATION PROVIDER OPERATING 23 HIGHLY SECURE DATA CENTERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, LONDON AND SINGAPORE. LEARN MORE ABOUT DATA CENTER PROVIDER SERVICES BY VISITING HTTP://WWW.CYRUSONE.COM/.