QTS (Quality Technology Services) is a leading national provider of data center facilities and professionally managed IT, cloud computing and hosting services to enterprise businesses. With 12 locations in eight states, QTS owns, operates and manages more than 3.5 million square feet of secure, state-of-the-art data center infrastructure and provides mission-critical IT operations for performance and cost-efficiency. Global enterprises, financial companies, and services providers rely upon QTS’s ITIL certified services organization and expertise to manage their mission- critical IT infrastructures. QTS uniquely combines customized data center solutions, colocation and fully managed hosting solutions to over 600 customers in the United States.

Building
Total Size : 546,640 sq. ft. data center footprint 990,000 sq. ft. total enclosed space
Construction : Concrete & brick structure with reinforced steel; Dual reinforced roof; 85MPH wind rating; QTS completed Phase I power & cooling upgrades in 10/2007
Shipping & Receiving : Large truck (18 wheeler) docks and small truck docks are able to support all of your shipping requirements; Secured Receiving area designated for customer owned equipment

Floor Space
Total Raised Floor : 200,000 sq. ft. available Q3 2007 130,000 additional sq. ft. available Q4 ‘10 200,000 sq. ft. office space

Cooling
Air Handling : Over 280-30 ton Lieberts provide air flow to over 200,000 sq. ft. of raised floor space
Air Quality : Air temperature under floor delivered at 68° ± 5° with humidity at 50% ± 5%
Water Detection : Leak detection under all raised floor; Drains are utilized to remove any water from under floor

Fire Protection
Smoke & Heat Detection : Smoke sensors above raised floor
VESDA : Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus - the world’s leading air sampling smoke detection system — provides the earliest possible warning of a potential fire event by detecting smoke particles at the incipient (first) stage of fire
Multi-Stage Protection : Pre-action dry pipe system requires alert from two sensors, which activates pipe fill and a final stage when the temperature exceeds thresholds

Facility Monitoring
Facility Engineers : Facility engineers on site and available by pager; Engineers trained to control and maintain all critical facility components : Power Management
Critical power system controlled by automated management system, which controls all switching
Environment Management : Air temperature, humidity, fire detection, and water pressure all managed by automated control systems

On-site Georgia Power substation with 80MW of N+1 power (3x40MW transformers) fed by three diverse substations and two electrical grids; 3x40 is 120MW
Generated Power : (19) 2.0MW generators with a static UPS provide back-up power of over 20MW’s of usable power
Power Cabling : All power cabling below floors is installed in either conduit or sealtight flexible conduit with approved connectors to all equipment
All Systems : Supported by 24/7/365 computer monitoring and facility engineers

Entrances : All building entrances require card key access; Data Center floor and secured areas require card key and two-factor biometric authentication (finger print and iris scan)
Property Perimeter : Security fence surrounds perimeter of property with CCTV monitoring; Single site entrance with security gate and guard house
Security Guards : Guards on site 24/7/365; Active patrols both inside and outside the facility
Closed Circuit Video : 55 cameras cover inside and exterior of building, property perimeter, all entrances, alternate workspace, and data center floor; Roof of building is monitored with CCTV and motion detectors

Carriers : Direct fiber access to Sprint, Level 3, Time Warner Telecom, BellSouth and WorldCom with Conduit to AGL Networks, MFN and Southern Telecom; Other accessible fiber providers include Qwest, WillTel/AT&T,
Norfolk Southern RR, Deltacom, Adelphia, Media One and Looking Glass Networks
Internal Cabling : Copper or fiber access to carrier bandwidth using cable management trays throughout building
External Cabling : Multiple secure entrances into building including multiple CO redundancy and fiber access to primary carriers; Dark fiber available from multiple carriers