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’ efforts to design, architect, build, […] More

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 professionals meet IT infrastructure compliance requirements. […] More

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 designed to address more than […] More

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 Realty Trust will host Georgia Hospital Association’s information technology systems through the company’s Atlanta-Metro data center under an agreement between QTS and GHA. QTS provides data center migration and managed hosting services in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, the company said Thursday. Brandon […] More

QTS Realty Trust is establishing a mega data center in downtown Chicago as the company aims to help address a demand for colocation, managed hosting and cloud computing services in the Midwest. QTS said Tuesday the 317,000-square-foot facility will be built to provide infrastructure as a service to government and other enterprise customers. Construction on the first phase of the QTS Chicago […] More

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 Realty Trust will showcase at the 2016 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference its portfolio of disaster recovery platforms designed to protect data of healthcare organizations following a natural disaster. The five-day annual HIMSS conference and exhibition will kick off Feb. 29 in Las Vegas, QTS said Friday. William Yasnoff, a member of QTS Healthcare’s advisory […] More

QTS Realty Trust has announced it will hold a networking reception in Vienna, Virginia, to present the company’s expanded portfolio of managed information technology hosting, data center and cloud migration service offerings designed for federal agencies. The event for QTS channel partners, technology providers and clients will take place at the Tower Club on Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to […] More

QTS Realty Trust and Vormetric have teamed up to help QTS’ government and commercial data center customers in efforts to meet data compliance requirements and protect their network infrastructures from potential data breaches. The partnership will allow QTS to provide its clients with Vormetric’s software platform, which works to secure data through encryption, user access control […] More

QTS Realty Trust has received a Cisco cloud and managed services certification for the former company’s disaster recovery as a service and infrastructure as a service products. Cisco audited QTS’ enterprise and federal cloud offerings designed to provide Cisco-powered DRaaS and IaaS services, QTS said Friday. Frank Eagle, vice president of business development at QTS, said Cisco’s certification […] More

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