Every category where a model named TierPoint for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Colocation providers	Cloud and infrastructure	22%	1 of 78	6%	18	accepted challenger
Backup and disaster recovery	Cloud and infrastructure	2%	11 of 116	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Veeam Data Platform at 38%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for TierPoint yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated TierPoint across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	0	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	2	0	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	0	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	0	0	0	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct17 labels7

Paraphrase9 labels6

Comparative10 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative9 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative47 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 15 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“TierPoint – national mid-market with regional coverage. US-focused operator with strong regional coverage and competitive pricing” Muse Glimmer 30B · Colocation · direct prompt · first choice

“Start with TierPoint if you want a provider specifically focused on mid-market businesses with excellent regional coverage” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Colocation · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“often the go-to for mid-market... General mid-market colocation & DR: TierPoint, Flexential.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Colocation · direct prompt · first choice

“The best backup and disaster recovery solution for a mid-market B2B company is TierPoint” Llama 4 Maverick · Backup and DR · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Possible late or slow customer service, and some users have reported frustration with limited data centers and high initial setup costs.” Mistral Small · Colocation · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as TierPoint, over the 47 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TierPoint was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Equinix39 of 4712Compare →

Digital Realty28 of 472Compare →

CoreSite27 of 470Compare →

Flexential18 of 476Compare →

DataBank14 of 471Compare →

CyrusOne12 of 470Not among the top eight

Iron Mountain Data Centers9 of 470Not among the top eight

NTT Global Data Centers9 of 470Not among the top eight

InterServer6 of 473Not among the top eight

ColoCrossing5 of 470Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named TierPoint. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 46 of the 47 answers that named TierPoint and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

quotecolo.com32

feeds.sabertoothpro.com25

techradar.com25

guideflow.com18

encoradvisors.com15

gartner.com15

sourceforge.net15

dgtlinfra.com14

metrocoloadvisory.com14

slashdot.org14

187 of the 187 domain citations in answers naming TierPoint came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

quotecolo.com/colocation-providers29

feeds.sabertoothpro.com/blog/best-colocation-service-provider-usa25

techradar.com/news/best-colocation-hosting25

guideflow.com/blog/colocation-services18

dgtlinfra.com/top-10-colocation-providers14

gartner.com/reviews/market/colocation-providers13

metrocoloadvisory.com/provider-comparison13

encoradvisors.com/best-colocation-data-center12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where TierPoint stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “colocation provider”

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not in the top ten

Position for “colocation providers”

Searches for its name, Google: 3,600 a month (“tierpoint”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 192 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 33,285 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 5,674 · 520 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,031
Paid Google search: 3 searches its ads show for, about 8 clicks and $160 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 108 text, 12 image · 63 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as Condor Digital Services LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 30 in the year, 90 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

22%

rank 1 of 78 in colocation

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 47 answers
Its own site cited: in 46 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on tierpoint.com

1,054

subdomains included

Content

580

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

9 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	242	11	2026-09-01	Firewalls, Colocation
News or press	110	2	2026-08-12	DDoS, Firewalls
Glossary or explainer	64	2	2026-08-01	XDR, MDR
Podcast or video	51	5	2026-09-09	IaC
Case study	49	3	2026-10-02
Comparison	26	0	2026-01-21	EDR, XDR
Report or ebook	14	0	2026-01-14
Webinar or virtual event	12	undated		XDR
Template or tool	9	0	2026-06-11
Conference or event	3	0	2018-09-13

Most recent

2026-10-02Latro case study
2026-09-09Ep 55 ai hype versus real value with artur kiulian podcast or video
2026-09-09Ep 51 building smarter logistics with ai with gary dowdy podcast or video
2026-09-01Neocloud blog
2026-08-26Ai cyber attacks blog
2026-08-26Cloud finops blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page tierpoint.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name XDR (20); 1 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as TierPoint

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as TierPoint; a claim can dispute any of them.

Tierpoint 1

Follow TierPoint

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

TierPoint is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Comprehensive IT & Data Center Solutions
tierpoint.com
For: transformational IT leaders
tierpoint.com
Certifications: Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Support ServicesISO 27001:2022SOC 2 Type IIHIPAAEU-US DPFPCISOC 1 Type IICCPA
Hosting: ArkansasConnecticutFloridaIllinoisKansasMarylandMassachusettsMissouri
Customers named: GroqJW SoftwareRAPAState of Maryland’s IT infrastructureMaryland DoITBoost RunLAZ Parking
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations

What TierPoint's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: tierpoint.com, tierpoint.com/pricing-guidance, trust.tierpoint.com, tierpoint.com/solutions/it-modernization. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when TierPoint's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as TierPoint, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for TierPoint by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where TierPoint is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name TierPoint, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where TierPoint is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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AI models recommend TierPoint first in Colocation providers this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

Show the code

<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/cloud/colocation-providers/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/tierpoint--colocation-providers-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Colocation providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Colocation providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/cloud/colocation-providers/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/tierpoint--colocation-providers-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Colocation providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Colocation providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/cloud/colocation-providers/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/tierpoint--colocation-providers-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Colocation providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Colocation providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.