Data center real estate advisory firm Wired Real Estate Group ("WiredRE") has launched a free colocation and data center search and listing service to support the firm's Brokerage Practice, according to the company.

 

As licensed real estate consultants, WiredRE advises investors, developers and enterprises on a range of colocation and IT data center topics including planning, availability, procurement strategy, trends, technologies, value chain, competition, leasing rates and risk management.

The new data center listing service which is offered free from the company is designed to help technology, internet, and telecommunication firms to easily identify new retail, wholesale and shell data center sites, including mapping of street locations. The service comes with no advertising, no registration, and no hidden locations, says the company.

 

Everett Thompson, president of WiredRE, said the colocation and data center market is changing and maturing rapidly, but it remains highly inefficient. He said that company’s search and listing service is intended to create efficiency by allowing colocation and data center users to search, map, and qualify sites directly.

 

“We will be proactively adding data center locations, as an extension of our planning and procurement service, with the intention of identifying 5,000 sites by the end of 2009," said Everett Thompson.

 

The firm has completed over 150 engagements with leading financial, enterprise, and telecom firms, including numerous members of the Fortune 200. Nationally, the firm represents nearly 1 MM square feet of retail, wholesale, and shell data center space, including major data center developments in Colorado, Virginia, and San Francisco.

 

The company also provides information and analysis on national data center leasing rates, trends, technologies, value chain, competition, buying process, and risk management. The company aslo works with and consults on Equinix, Fortune, Power Loft, 365 Main, Switch and Data, Savvis, Level 3, CRG (News - Alert) West, DuPont Fabros, Digital Realty, Internap, Navisite, Terremark, and over 1,000 other data center and Internet service providers.