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  • CyrusOne Eyes Data Center Expansion in Atlanta, Georgia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Eyes Data Center Expansion in Atlanta, Georgia

    CyrusOne is looking to establish a 44-acre data center campus in Georgia’s Atlanta metro area in efforts to serve enterprise customers including hyperscale cloud providers in the region. The company said Tuesday it plans to begin construction of the facility in the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville by the first quarter of 2018. The campus is designed […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Interview with Steve Halligan, CEO & Co-Founder of n2Grate Government Technology Solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview with Steve Halligan, CEO & Co-Founder of n2Grate Government Technology Solutions

    With a number of new companies on the up and up, a promising one to watch is certainly leading network solutions provider n2Grate, a company dedicated to helping customers achieve their business/mission objectives by maximizing technology investment. With a focus on infrastructure, software, professional and managed services, n2grate works to support a diverse set of […] More

  • Red Hat Unveils Updated Enterprise Container Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Unveils Updated Enterprise Container Platform

    Red Hat has introduced an updated version of its enterprise-grade Kubernetes container application platform. The company said Thursday its OpenShift Container Platform 3.7. works to help information technology organizations develop and manage applications that use services from data centers and public clouds. Matt Yanchyshyn, director of partner solution architecture at Amazon Web Services, said AWS partnered with Red Hat […] More

  • CyrusOne Kicks Off Texas Data Center Construction - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Kicks Off Texas Data Center Construction

    CyrusOne conducted a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday morning to initiate the construction of a data center campus in Allen, Texas. The company said Tuesday the campus will consist of three data centers with more than 100 megawatts of allocated power and bring CyrusOne’s total footprint in the state to more than 1.7 million square feet. The first of three centers […] More

  • CyrusOne Enters Partnership, Equity Deal With Chinese Data Center Operator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Enters Partnership, Equity Deal With Chinese Data Center Operator

    CyrusOne has formed a strategic partnership with GDS Holdings and agreed to acquire an 8 percent stake in the China-based data center operator for approximately $100 million. The agreement seeks to drive synergy between the two companies and allows both parties to exchange strategies in data center design and construction, operations, sales and marketing, and supply chain customer […] More

  • CyrusOne Data Center Offers AWS Cloud Access for Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Data Center Offers AWS Cloud Access for Customers

    CyrusOne has begun to offer access to Amazon Web Services‘ cloud services through a private network at the former’s data center campus in Houston, Texas. AWS Direct Connect is designed to provide a private and direct access to AWS services instead of requiring customers to connect through the internet, CyrusOne said Tuesday. The data center provider initially made AWS Direct […] More

  • CGI Gets $68M USAID Cloud Data Center Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Gets $68M USAID Cloud Data Center Support Contract

    CGI has received a potential five-year, $68.2 million contract to support enterprise data center and disaster recovery efforts of the office of the chief information officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development. The company said Monday it will also help USAID implement the Unify360 enterprise software platform in an effort to transition the agency’s data centers to a hybrid […] More

  • Iron Mountain Unveils New Data Mgmt Facility in Arkansas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Unveils New Data Mgmt Facility in Arkansas

    Iron Mountain has opened an information management facility in Arkansas that is built to store up to 200,000 cubic feet of records and 260,000 data tapes for enterprise customers. The 23,000-square-foot building joins other local and regional Iron Mountain facilities that support data management, imaging and secure shredding operations, the company said Thursday. “We chose Little […] More

  • QTS Deploys Cloud-Based Unemployment Insurance System; David McOmber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Deploys Cloud-Based Unemployment Insurance System; David McOmber Comments

    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 Authorization Management Program and is […] More

  • Accenture Wins Library of Congress Data Center, Migration Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Wins Library of Congress Data Center, Migration Support Contract

    Accenture‘s federal services business has secured a potential three-year, $27.4 million contract to build a new data center for the Library of Congress as well as migrate the library’s current data center to new hosting environments. The contract posted Monday on FedBizOpps has a one-year base period along with two one-year options and covers data center testing, security assessment […] More

  • Iron Mountain Opens New Data Center in Northern Virginia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Opens New Data Center in Northern Virginia

    Iron Mountain has opened the first of four planned data centers in Northern Virginia built to help government agencies, enterprises and cloud service providers meet security and compliance requirements. The company said Friday that the new 165,000 square-foot, 10.5-megawatt multi-tenant and cloud facility in Prince William will house operations of pre-leased customers including Dell Technologies‘ […] More