Type Public Products Data centers Revenue 452 million USD (2015) | Traded as NYSE:DFT Website www.dft.com Founded 1997 | |
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Key people Lammot J. du Pont, (Co-founder, Director & Chairman of the Board of Directors)
Christopher P. Eldredge (President, CEO, Director)
Jeffrey H. Foster, (Executive Vice President & CFO)
Scott A. Davis (Executive Vice President & CTO)
Rick Montfort (Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary)
Maria Kenny, (Executive Vice President & CDO)
Bob O’Keefe (Senior Vice President & CMO)
Brian Doricko (Senior Vice President & CRO)
James W. Armstrong (CAO)
Kathy Murphy (Senior Vice President of Human Resources) Stock price DFT (NYSE) US$ 49.76 -0.51 (-1.01%)6 Mar, 4:02 PM GMT-5 - Disclaimer Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States CEO Christopher P. Eldredge (17 Feb 2015–) Founders Hossein Fateh, Lammot J. du Pont Subsidiaries DuPont Fabros Technology LP Profiles | ||
Ceo spotlight hossein fateh of dupont fabros technology
DuPont Fabros Technology Inc., abbreviated as DFT, is an American public company owning, developing, operating and managing multi-tenant wholesale data centers. DFT’s customers include domestic and international companies across multiple industries such as technology, banking and financial services, insurance and healthcare, cloud, content, media and social. DFT operates 11 data centers in three markets in the United States, which total approximately 3.3 million gross square feet and almost 287 megawatts of available critical load.
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DFT is a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and its common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "DFT". The company’s corporate headquarters is located in Washington, D.C., with the company also maintaining regional offices in various locations across the United States.
History
The company was co-founded in 1997 by Lammot J. du Pont and Hossein Fateh as they entered the real estate market in 1997 as DuPont Fabros Development pursuing a broad array of commercial development opportunities. Three years later, the co-founders focused their efforts toward building and managing data centers. Their approach categorized data centers as real estate in which customers could sign long-term triple net leases as opposed to short-term license agreements.
In 2007, the company was launched as DuPont Fabros Technology and went public as a real estate investment trust (REIT). At its IPO, DFT ranked as the largest U.S. IPO by a REIT year to date and ranked as the seventh largest REIT IPO ever.
DFT won its first award in 2012, after being named Recycled Water Customer of the Year by WateReuse. It continued in the same manner in 2014 when it was named the Fastest Growing Company by the Washington Business Journal. In 2015, DFT won the Brill Award for Efficient IT for Data Center Design among North American participants.
In February 2015 the company named Christopher Eldredge as its CEO.
As of March 2016, the company had a market cap of approximately $2.41 billion and the company's public annual financial reports indicated revenue growth from $174 million in 2008 to more than $452 million in 2015.
In October 2016 the company purchased the building and land previously used for printing the Toronto Star newspaper for $40,500,000 USD. The building is scheduled for use in the third quarter of 2017 as the company's first data center in Toronto.
In November 2016, the company was rated one of the 50 best workplaces in 2016.
As of January 2017 DFT was ranked by Data Center Knowledge as the third largest data center provider in the world with a 6.0% market share.
Products and services
DuPont Fabros Technology operates as a real estate investment trust, which owns, acquires, develops and operates data centers for large wholesale customers. DFT’s data center wholesale customers are various well-known enterprises, including Facebook, Microsoft, Rackspace, Dropbox, Symantec, ServerCentral, and UBS. In 2015, DFT had 12 data centers located in Northern Virginia, New Jersey, Chicago, and Silicon Valley, covering an area of 3 million square feet and having a 270 MW power capacity. Four of its data centers are certified according to ISO/IEC 27001:2013, thus ensuring that DFT is providing power, cooling and security within its data centers while securing the privacy of clients’ data. In June 2016, DFT sold its NJ1 facility and had 11 data centers located in Northern Virginia, Chicago, and Silicon Valley, covering an area of 3.3 million square feet and having 287 MW power capacity. DFT offers various Connectivity services to its customers including Dark Fiber services at its campus environments in Ashburn and Chicago. Dark Fiber services are offered as Intra- Data Center Connectivity and Inter- Data Center Connectivity.
DFT operates carrier-neutral data centers in the United States. Computer Business Review reported that DFT's Ashburn, Virginia data center campus was the third largest in the world, covering a total area of 1,600,000 square feet.