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QTS Leases Space in Richmond Data Center
May 18th, 2011 : Rich Miller
QTS (Quality Technology Services) has leased space in its huge new data center in Richmond, Virginia to a leading provider of IT services to the federal government, the companies said yesterday. Read More
Roundup: NSA, ViaWest, NextDC, NxGen
April 22nd, 2011 : John Rath
NSA building a supercomputing center at Fort Meade, ViaWest opens Portland data center, NxGen Modular names Fetter as new CEO, NEXTDC expands to western Australia. Read More
VCE & Harris Team on Fed ‘Cyber Condos’
March 23rd, 2011 : John Rath
Harris Corp. has announced a strategic alliance with VCE (a joint venture between EMC, VMware and Cisco) to develop and market trusted cloud solutions for government from a new Harris data center in Virginia. Read More
Social Security Works to Avert Data Center Failure
February 22nd, 2011 : Rich Miller
A $500 million project to build a new data center for the Social Security Administration is year behind schedule, and won't be ready until 2016. Meanwhile, the agency is trying to extend the life of a problem-plagued 30-year-old facility that is critical to the SSA. Read More
Cities, States Wrestle With Data Center Costs
January 19th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Some state and local governments with aging IT operations are experiencing sticker shock upon realizing that better data centers come with a pricetag. Read More
The Pentagon’s Top Cloud Computing Supplier
January 7th, 2011 : John Rath
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) operates 14 data centers around the world and is 'uniquely positioned' to provide cloud computing services to the Defense Department. Read More
Terremark to Host FCC on Enterprise Cloud
November 18th, 2010 : Rich Miller
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is embracing cloud computing and will use Terremark's Enterprise Cloud platform to host its web site, the agency said today. Read More
Apps.gov to Begin Offering IaaS Cloud Services
October 22nd, 2010 : Rich Miller
Major cloud computing providers will be able to offer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings to government agencies through Apps.gov cloud-based services storefront, the GSA said yesterday. Amazon, Microsoft, Savvis, AT&T, Verizon Federal, SoftLayer and Carpathia Hosting are all participating. Read More
Feds Discover 1,000 More Data Centers
October 13th, 2010 : Rich Miller
The U.S. government has 2,094 data centers, nearly 1,000 more than federal CIO Vivek Kundra's previous estimate of 1,100, according to an inventory connected with the federal data center consolidation. Read More