Joan Dempsey, senior executive adviser to the Booz Allen Hamilton CEO, has been named an independent director on QTS Realty Trust's board. QTS said Thursday the addition of Dempsey brings the number of board members at the Overland Park, Kansas-based data center services provider to 11, including 10 independent directors.

QTS Realty Trust has won a Direct Project Engagement award from the Environmental Protection Agency for the data center services provider's practice of sourcing renewable electricity to power its operations.

QTS Realty Trust has landed the 40th spot on the Environmental Protection Agency's list of the top 100 U.S. organizations that use renewable energy resources and systems to reduce the impact of their operations on the environment.

Ciena has been selected by QTS Realty Trust to provide a server platform to help address the latter's bandwidth and encryption requirements for in-flight data security efforts.

QTS Realty Trust has chosen Cohesity to power cloud-based managed backup services intended to help clients simplify data security processes. The QTS Managed Backup offering uses hyperconverged technology to protect and recover files and applications through a single web-scale platform, the company said Wednesday. QTS engineers will monitor and track security issues for customers …

QTS Realty Trust has finished the first-phase construction of a new facility in Ashburn, Va., in 10 months to meet the increasing demand for hyperscale data center and hybrid colocation products and services. The data center services provider stood up a three-story center that has 32 megawatts of critical power …

QTS Realty Trust and Relus Cloud have partnered to provide Amazon Web Services migration support to customers that aim to implement a hybrid colocation strategy for information technology operations. The partnership seeks to help clients migrate to the cloud through a managed service meant to simplify the process for managing …

Data center services provider QTS has received certifications from a public accounting and auditing firm after completion of two annual Service Organization Control audits. QTS said Thursday it completed American Institute of Certified Public Accountants SOC 1 and 2 Type II reports highlighting the company’s internal controls and procedures. The reports follow AICPA’s Statement on Standards for …

The IT world is shifting. New tech, new infrastructure, the new consumer. The modern age–what a time to be alive. The future is bright, but also highly variable, tinged with uncertainty. Someone working to make the uncertain, certain, is David McOmber, Executive Vice President of Public Sector & Federal Sales …

QTS Realty Trust has begun to build a 52-acre data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia, in a push to grow the company’s Tier 1 data center offerings. QTS said Tuesday it bought a 24-acre land parcel and a 28-acre lot for $53 million in total to establish the mega facility. The company …

QTS Realty Trust has deployed a cloud-based platform designed to help states process and deliver unemployment insurance benefits and comply with the Labor Department’s requirement to develop practices that seek to reduce costs in the workforce system. The unemployment insurance and single state tax system complies with the Federal Risk and …

Governments agencies have turned to hybrid cloud platforms in order to both take advantage of cloud capabilities and support legacy systems, QTS Realty Trust Executive Vice President Dave McOmber said in a Federal News Radio panel discussion posted Thursday. McOmber, who is in charge of public sector and federal sales at QTS, …

QTS Realty Trust has received Advanced Consulting Partner designation from Amazon Web Services after the data center services provider met requirements necessary to help clients manage AWS cloud platforms. QTS said Thursday it invests in technology platforms that support access to AWS and other public cloud providers. AWS consulting partners include professional and information technology services companies that support customers’ …

QTS Realty Trust has purchased a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant cloud platform from VMware for an undisclosed sum. QTS said Wednesday it has rebranded VMware vCloud Government Service as QTS Government Cloud and expects the acquisition to help expand QTS’ portfolio of hybrid cloud platforms designed to help federal information technology …

QTS has attained the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard version 3.1 information security certification and attestation of compliance for the company’s colocation services at its data center in Dallas, Texas. The company said Monday the certification makes the Dallas-Fort Worth data center its fourth PCI DSS v3.1 compliant center. QTS added it implemented a network architecture …