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  • Dan Bennewitz: QTS to Open Mega Data Center in Downtown Chicago - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Bennewitz: QTS to Open Mega Data Center in Downtown Chicago

    QTS Realty Trust will open a 317,000-square-foot data center in downtown Chicago Friday to provide a range of information technology infrastructure services to government and enterprise customers. QTS said Tuesday it collaborated Mortenson Construction and consulting-engineering firm ESD to design and build the mega data center on the former Chicago Sun-Times  complex. The facility is built to offer direct access to long-haul fiber networks for organizations located in Chicago’s central […] More

  • QTS, Virtustream Enter Cloud Hosting & Compliance Services Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS, Virtustream Enter Cloud Hosting & Compliance Services Partnership

    QTS will host two Virtustream Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant cloud platforms in QTS data centers in Texas and Virginia as part of a newly formed agreement between the two companies. QTS said Thursday it will also deploy Virtustream’s Viewtrust system, which works to provide risk identification, mitigation and compliance automation as part of the former’s portfolio. Virtustream has […] More

  • QTS to Support Y2Fox Gov't Business Expansion With VMware Cloud Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS to Support Y2Fox Gov’t Business Expansion With VMware Cloud Platform

    Y2Fox Data Solutions has selected QTS Realty Trust to provide a FedRAMP-compliant cloud platform that works to help meet the requirements of government customers and expand Y2Fox’s business in the public sector. QTS said Wednesday it will support the deployment of Y2Fox’ production environment on the FedRAMP-compliant VMware vCloud Government Service built on the VMware vSphere platform. “The […] More

  • QTS Gets Federal Info Security Mgmt Authorization; Oliver Schmidt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Gets Federal Info Security Mgmt Authorization; Oliver Schmidt Comments

    QTS Realty Trust has earned authorization to operate its Richmond and Atlanta-Metro data centers under security requirements based on the Federal Information Security Management Act. Third party assessment organization Veris Group conducted the tests for QTS’ data center and colocation services following the latest version of FISMA, QTS said Thursday. “In this time of increased […] More

  • Dan Bennewitz: QTS-Vion Team to Offer Public Cloud Services in Govt Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Bennewitz: QTS-Vion Team to Offer Public Cloud Services in Govt Market

    QTS and Vion have partnered to jointly deliver federally-approved public and hybrid cloud service offerings in the U.S. government sector. The companies aim to help customer agencies lower total cost of ownership, increase utilization rate and accelerate deployment of cloud-based systems designed to comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Vion said Tuesday. […] More

  • QTS Hosts Forum on Cybersecurity, Compliance Topics in Enterprise IT - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Hosts Forum on Cybersecurity, Compliance Topics in Enterprise IT

    QTS Realty Trust‘s Information Security and Compliance Forum on Tuesday gathered at least 100 enterprise information technology professionals to discuss current issues and strategies in the field of cybersecurity. The company said Thursday this year’s forum featured keynote speakers Stephen Coty, chief security evangelist at Alert Logic, and Justin Somaini, vice president and chief trust officer of Box. “We’re […] More

  • QTS Unveils Public Sector Cloud IaaS Offering; Jim Reinhart Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Unveils Public Sector Cloud IaaS Offering; Jim Reinhart Comments

    QTS has rolled out an infrastructure-as-a-service offering intended to help U.S. government customers manage virtual data center workloads in the cloud. The QTS Federal Cloud suite is comprised of storage, networking and security services and designed to be compatible with Cisco, EMC and VMware computing environments, QTS said Wednesday. “QTS understands the IT needs and requirements […] More