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QTS Data Centers

QTS Chicago data center QTS Data Centers are masters of retrofitting industrial facilities and transforming them into state-of-the-art data fortresses. Their ability to renovate buildings in infrastructure rich areas makes them cost-efficient while delivers their 3 C’s: cloud, colocation, and custom data centers.

Headquarters: Overland Park, KS
Web: http://www.qtsdatacenters.com/

Data Center Construction Surging Amid Supply Constraints in Top Markets

By Rich Miller - December 2, 2020 1 Comment

The QTS Data Centers Shellhorn DC-1 project in Ashburn. (Image: QTS)

Data center developers are scrambling to add capacity, as this year’s record leasing activity has consumed much of the available supply of server space. Several leading markets are seeing a boom in construction.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, Ashburn, Data Center Construction, Digital Realty, Editors Choice 1, Northern Virginia, QTS Realty

Data Center Leasing Accelerates in Atlanta Market

By Rich Miller - November 9, 2020 Leave a Comment

Data center activity is accelerating in the Greater Atlanta market, with strong leasing in the third quarter by QTS Data Centers and Switch, and a substantial expansion by Facebook.

Tagged With: Atlanta, QTS Realty, switch

Microsoft, Equinix, QTS Cited for Green Power Leadership

By Rich Miller - September 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

The data center sector’s growing focus on sustainability was on display in the EPA Green Power Leadership Awards, which honored Microsoft, Equinix and QTS Realty Trust.

Tagged With: Equinix, Microsoft, QTS Realty

When Breakfast is Mission-Critical: How Waffle House Uses Colocation for DR

By Sarah Rubenoff - March 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

Waffle House

Recently the Waffle House business turned to colocation, through provider QTS, to achieve its IT and data infrastructure needs. These include, according to the QTS, extended value over what could be achieved internally, quick delivery in terms of risk exposure, better resource allocation and more. The full report, “Data Center Services: A Story of Build Versus Buy,” courtesy of QTS, explores the decisioning process to keep data services internal, or whether to use a colocation provider.

Tagged With: Colocation, Colocation Provider, QTS, QTS Realty

The Top 10 Data Center Stories for November 2019

By Rich Miller - December 2, 2019 Leave a Comment

Immersion cooling using 3M Novec

Rising rack densities and liquid cooling were the focus of the most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in November, along with the impact of data gravity and strategic moves by Digital Realty and QTS.

Tagged With: Digital Realty, QTS Realty

Growing the Number of Buildings Where Networks can Exchange Data Traffic

By Sarah Rubenoff - November 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

data traffic

Projects like the IEIC (Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee), of which QTS is a member, work to “stimulate transformation, regional economies and internet infrastructure growth globally,” and are designed to deemphasize the heavy reliance of the current concentrated, congested peering points. A new white paper from QTS, “QTS Peering and Data Exchange,”  explores how companies can help the industry proliferate the number of buildings where internet and content networks can exchange traffic and do so in a neutral and open way.

Tagged With: Data Center Network, data exchange, QTS Realty

QTS Expands Atlanta Campus to Support 12 MW Hyperscale Deal

By Rich Miller - November 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

QTS Realty has signed a 12-megawatt lease with a hyperscale customer, which will become the anchor tenant in a new data center building on the company’s Metro Atlanta campus.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Atlanta Data Center Market, QTS Realty

On-site Data Center Challenges Explored in New QTS Report

By Sarah Rubenoff - October 25, 2019 Leave a Comment

on-site data centers

Should you still be in the data center business? That’s the first question asked in a new report from QTS that explores the risks of the on premises data center, and the growing number of colocation offerings available.

Tagged With: Colocation, Colocation Provider, QTS Realty

Global Investors See ‘Compelling’ Opportunity in Data Infrastructure

By Rich Miller - July 25, 2019 1 Comment

The emerging digital economy is powered by servers, storage and data centers. A rack of servers inside an Intel Corp. data center. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Some of the world’s largest investors are raising billions of dollars to invest in digital infrastructure, citing extraordinary demand for capital to fuel the shift to a data economy.

Tagged With: Aligned Energy, Cologix, Digital Bridge, Digital Colony, Digital Realty, Evoque, Infrastructure Funds, Macquarie, QTS Realty

Frontier Spotlight: Top Data Center Stories for March 2019

By Sarah Rubenoff - April 2, 2019 Leave a Comment

Hyperscale

The most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in March featured Facebook’s new wholesale fiber business, cooling, edge computing, and data center staffing.

Tagged With: EdgeConneX, Iron Mountain, QTS Realty, RagingWire Data Centers, Sabey Data Centers

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Digitization Driving Increasing Requirements for Enterprise IT

Digitization Driving Increasing Requirements for Enterprise IT Sean Baillie, Executive Vice President, Connectivity at QTS Data Centers explains how digital transformation is putting more pressure on data center providers to provide a flawless experience for a variety of end users in a constantly scaling environment.

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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Data Center Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic presents strategic challenges for the data center and cloud computing sectors. Data Center Frontier provides a one-stop resource for the latest news and analysis for decision-makers navigating this complex new landscape.

An aerial view of major facilities in Data Center Alley in Ashburn, Virginia. (Image: Loudoun County)

Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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How People, Processes and Technology are Redefining Data Center Operations

In an industry where 100% uptime is the expectation,  what can owners do to proactively de-risk their data center operations and protect their company? Based on BCS’ decades of experience both operating data centers on behalf of enterprises and serving as data center operators ourselves, the company propose five questions data center owners should be asking operators to ensure that service provider goals are consistent with their own in this new report.

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Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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