QTS Launches Federal Cloud solution

OVERLAND PARK, USA: QTS Realty Trust, one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing providers of data center facilities and managed services, has launched the QTS Federal Cloud, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution designed exclusively for United States government agencies.

QTS Federal Cloud is designed to meet the mandates faced by federal government agencies, including the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), Cloud First policy and IT Shared Services strategy. QTS' highly-secure cloud solution delivers scalable, high-performing, virtual data centers for federal agencies and government contractors.

Housed in QTS' compliant, mega-data centers in Richmond and Atlanta, the QTS Federal Cloud is built on best-of-breed technologies that federal agencies are already familiar with, including VMware, EMC and Cisco, making the solution easy to integrate with private VMware environments. The company maintains strict logical and physical security protocols and expects to achieve FedRAMP certification in mid-2014.

QTS Federal Cloud provides all infrastructure services, compute, storage, network and security components necessary to make workloads operational in minutes. The self-managed interface empowers government technologists to control all aspects of their virtual data center while QTS manages and monitors the cloud-based infrastructure.

"QTS understands the IT needs and requirements of government agencies and our Federal Cloud solution augments the company's strategic focus on the public sector," said Jim Reinhart, CEO, development and operations - QTS. "We are proud to add this solution to our existing federal data center services."

QTS' Federal Systems Group helps agencies design and implement IT infrastructure that meets performance, security and compliance needs.