OVERLAND PARK, Kan.,
March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS), a leading provider of hybrid
colocation and mega scale data center solutions, today announced
significant increases in usage of QTS' Service Delivery Platform
(SDP) engineered to manage and optimize data center
deployments.
The Company attributes the increases in demand to services and
capability that align with the requirements of a dramatically
expanded remote workplace in response to the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic. Customers' ability to remotely monitor and manage their
infrastructure through a software-defined data center platform is
truly differentiated in the data center landscape. Examples of
remote access and capability include provisioning multi-cloud and
site-to-site connectivity (Switchboard) and real-time bandwidth
management, viewing and managing real-time power utilization (Power
Analytics), full visibility of customers' inventory of assets
within the data center (Asset Manager) and executing online
ordering. This software-defined orchestration capability is now top
of mind for decision makers responsible for their company's
outsourced IT infrastructure.
The Company reported that the number of new, unique logins to
SDP has increased approximately 30% over the last three weeks. QTS
also reported that its top SDP users are spending nearly twice the
amount of time on the platform -- 62 minutes compared to 36 minutes
three weeks ago. In addition, non-customer market interest has
grown significantly over the same period as QTS has facilitated
nearly 100 unique SDP demos, representing a 400% increase in
velocity. In response to increasing connectivity needs tied to
remote workplace requirements, since the beginning of March QTS has
signed total IP bandwidth upgrades representing a 700%+ increase
over the same period in 2019.
"Working remotely is a new challenge and opportunity that many
in Corporate America are currently facing. The Internet and online
workplace are now mission critical in our daily lives," said
Jon Greaves, Chief Technology
Officer, QTS. "QTS customers are benefiting from greater control
over their IT environments and in the current environment,
decreasing risk at the same time through a digitized orchestration
capability that largely has not existed in the data center industry
previously."
Following several years of intense focus and execution, QTS has
successfully accomplished its goal of digitizing its external and
internal systems. This includes the integration of industry-leading
software platforms including Salesforce, the global leader in
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Workday
(NASDAQ:WDAY) to enable enhanced internal efficiency and operating
capability for QTS employees. Externally, SDP is the industry's
first software-defined data center platform which empowers
customers to interact with their data and QTS services by providing
real-time visibility, access and dynamic control of critical
metrics across hybrid IT environments from a single platform.
Through continued innovation, the platform continues to lead the
industry in data center services delivery, as evidenced by QTS'
industry-leading customer satisfaction results.
To learn more about ways to manage and optimize your data center
environment remotely and in real time, register and attend this
live webinar.
About QTS
QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) is a
leading provider of data center solutions across a diverse
footprint spanning more than 7 million square feet of owned mega
scale data center space within North
America and Europe. Through
its software-defined technology platform, QTS is able to deliver
secure, compliant infrastructure solutions, robust connectivity and
premium customer service to leading hyperscale technology
companies, enterprises, and government entities. Visit QTS at
www.qtsdatacenters.com, call toll-free 877.QTS.DATA or follow on
Twitter @DataCenters_QTS.
Media Contact:
Carter B.
Cromley
(703) 861-7245
carter.cromley@qtsdatacenters.com
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