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 : 303,000 sq. ft. footprint 376,000 sq. ft. total enclosed space
Construction : Tilt-up concrete structure with reinforced steel; Dual reinforced roof. 85MPH wind rating; QTS completed Phase III power & cooling upgrades in 8/2007
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 : 168,000 sq. ft. of 48” raised floor; raised floor will support 6,000 lb four- point load, 130 cubes, 49 private offices, 3 conferences rooms and common areas available

Cooling
Air Handling : N+1 Chiller plant; Over 200-30 ton Lieberts provide air flow to over176,000 sq. ft. of raised floor space; Redundant piping systems for chilled fluid; Generator Backup for cooling system is provide by six 2.0MW generators
Air Quality : Air temperature above floor is maintained at 70°±5° with humidity at 50%±5%
Water Detection : Leak detection under all raised floor; Drains are utilized to remove water from under floor

Fire Protection
Smoke & Heat Detection : Smoke sensors above and below raised floor
VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection) : Apparatus - provides earliest possible warning of a potential fire event by detecting smoke particles at the incipient 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; FM200 Fire Suppression used in Transport and selected areas

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 systems are monitored and controlled by Square-D automated management system
Environment Management : Data center air temperature and humidity is monitored and controlled by Trane Tracer Summit System; Fire Detection and Suppression is managed by Cheetah Systems in tandem with VESDA

Power to Facility : Under ground, encased in concrete from the substation to our site
Generated Power : Essential (UPS) Power – Six 1800 KVA Hitec rotary constant power units supply up to 7.2MW of power to the data floor with one unit redundant; Six 2250 KW Caterpillar generators backup a 10MW Active Power UPS system with one redundant 1 MW UPS module and one redundant 2250 KW Cat generator, all without the need for batteries; 8MW Liebert N+1 UPS Systems; These 3 world-class UPS systems total 25 MW of UPS power for the building
Critical (non-UPS) Power – Six 2MW Caterpillar generators backup critical systems such as chiller plant, data floor lighting and office space
Fuel - 84,000 gallons capacity of diesel fuel on site w/ refueling contracts. 48-72 hours at max. load
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)
Security Guards : Guards on site 24/7/365; Active patrols both inside and outside the facility
Closed Circuit Video : Over 70 cameras cover inside and exterior of building, all entrances, alternate workspace, and data center floor

Carriers : Diverse SONet Fiber access from Deltacom, Time Warner Telecom, Atlanta Gas Light Networks and AT&T; Internet access from InterNap and ITC^DeltaCom, providing peering with more than 10 Tier-I Backbones
Carrier Services : From low speed 56kbps to optical carrier level services are available
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