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• Digital Realty Buys More Virginia Properties

  January 4th, 2010 : Rich Miller

  Digital Realty Trust (DLR) said today that it has acquired two fully leased data centers in the hot northern Virginia market, as well as a parcel of land in the heart of Ashburn's "Data Center Alley" that can support future construction. Read More

• Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Redundancy

  November 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller

  Key IT systems for the state of Virginia are experiencing downtime because the state neglected to include network backup as a requirement in a 10-year, $2.3 billion outsourcing deal won by Northrop Grumman. Read More

• Demand Remains Strong in Key Markets

  October 21st, 2009 : Rich Miller

  Data center demand is outpacing supply across the United States and pricing remains strong in key markets, according to the latest analysis by commercial real estate specialist Grubb & Ellis. Read More

• LEED Gold for NTT America Ashburn Site

  September 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller

  The NTT America data center in Ashburn, Virginia has earned a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification, the company said today. Read More

• How Apple Played The Incentive Game

  July 7th, 2009 : Rich Miller

  How did Apple get big tax breaks in North Carolina? It knew how to play the incentives game and pit rival states - in this case North Carolina and Virginia - against one another to extract the best possible economic scenario for its $! billion project. Read More

• Some Fiber is Darker Than Others

  June 1st, 2009 : Rich Miller

  The Washington Post recounts an incident in 2000 when a fiber cut in Tysons Corner brought a visit from men in suits driving black SUVs Read More

• Digital Realty Expands Ashburn Campus

  May 18th, 2009 : Rich Miller

  Digital Realty Trust has acquired 34 acres next to its huge data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia and will use the land to add as much as 400,000 square feet of new data center space. Read More

• Virginia Passes Data Center Tax Incentives

  May 13th, 2009 : Rich Miller

  The state of Virginia has adopted targeted tax incentives to attract major data center projects to the state, which is already one of the most active data center markets. Read More

• Virginia’s Chopra Named New Federal CTO

  April 20th, 2009 : Rich Miller

  America's new Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, is familiar with the data center sector from his duties as secretary of technology in Virginia, a state with a large concentration of major data centers. Read More

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