Baltimore Technology Park Announces Largest Customer Win to Date
Expanding Free Patents Search Engine Firm Colocates 75 Servers at BTPBALTIMORE, MD – Baltimore Technology Park (BTP), a premier data center and the largest carrier-neutral facility in the state of Maryland, today announced its latest new customer, FreePatentsOnline (freepatentsonline.com), a rapidly growing provider of sophisticated free patent search engine services. Based in Ellicott City, Maryland, FreePatentsOnline.com delivers over 10 million page views per month, mostly to intellectual property researchers such as attorneys, students or others seeking technical information. When the company launched in 2004, a half cabinet and one server met its needs. But FreePatentsOnline quickly outgrew this modest infrastructure and will now lease 12 cabinets from BTP to house its 75 servers. In terms of space, power and bandwidth consumption the company represents BTP’s largest customer win to date.
“We have massive power and space needs,” said James Ryley, President and founder of FreePatentsOnline. “Our data, server, power and rack space requirements have grown far beyond what we ever expected. In addition, the universe of data we could still add to our site is literally infinite. Thus, we’re routinely adding server after server. We chose Baltimore Technology Park because we needed faster, more responsive service than we were getting from our previous data center, and due to our need for higher power density per rack. BTP is a state-of-the-art facility with space for us to scale. We also like that they will receive and store shipments securely on our behalf, and have work space available for our staff.”
The FreePatentsOnline search engine is one of the most powerful, fastest and easiest patent search engines on the web. Its search engine allows advanced search techniques such as word stemming, proximity searching, relevancy ranking and search term weighing to help users find what they need. The company continually adds more content to the site beyond just U.S. Patents. Its database now includes searchable U.S. and European Patent Applications. Each addition of information draws even more visitors and heightens demand on its servers and network.
“FreePatentsOnline had been colocated with another data center, so they knew what they needed in a provider and recognized the importance of choosing one with a strong customer service ethos and modern power design,” said Jim Weller, president of BTP and a 20-year veteran of the IT infrastructure industry. “We are thrilled by the opportunity to work with them and believe their reasons for choosing BTP illustrate why we’re growing so much.”
FreePatentsOnline did not seriously consider building its own in-house data center. “We must have redundant high-speed connections, backup power generators and air conditioning systems in case our power goes down,” added Ryley. “You can’t build that in your own building at an affordable cost.”
Organizations in the greater Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia area turn to BTP to satisfy their data center needs for ample and redundant power, sufficient cooling, security, and bandwidth. Often driven by legislative directives such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and others, organizations also choose BTP to protect their critical IT systems from natural disasters, terrorist threats and unpredictable service from utility and bandwidth providers. The data center’s convenient downtown location in a Focus Area of an Enterprise Zone of the City of Baltimore allows BTP to offer customers significant tax incentives, including a ten-year, 80% credit against local personal property taxes.
About FreePatentsOnline
FreePatentsOnline is the most powerful free online search engine for patents. FPO’s search provides advanced capabilities such as word stemming, proximity searching relevancy ranking, and search term weighing to allow the most accurate searching possible. FPO also has account features that allow users to organize, annotate, and share documents, and provides free PDF downloads of patents for easy viewing of diagrams, charts, and other graphic information. FPO’s corporate headquarters is located at 8605 Chapel View Drive, Ellicott City MD 21043.
About Baltimore Technology Park (BTP)
BTP is a 30,000-square-foot, purpose-built facility that provides the highest level of security and redundancy for businesses of all types and sizes who require reliable data center services. BTP’s corporate headquarters are located at 10 East Baltimore Street, Suite 1000, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. For more information, send email to sales@baltimoretechnologypark.com, call 1-877-293-5615 or 410-500-4050, or visit us at www.baltimoretechnologypark.com
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