Quality Technology Services
| Quality Technology Services | |
| Public | |
| Traded as | : QTS |
| Industry | Data center |
| Founded | Overland Park, Kansas (2003) |
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Key people
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Chad Williams (CEO) |
$26 million  (2013) |
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| $3.8 million (2013) |
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| Total assets | $831 million (2013) |
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Number of employees
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400 (2013) |
| Website | qtsdatacenters |
QTS Realty Trust (popularly known as Quality Technology Services or QTS) : QTS is a real estate investment trust that owns, operates or manages 25 multi-tenant data centers internationally. QTS's Metro Data Center located in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the world's largest data centers. QTS was founded in 2003 by Chad Williams. The company is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.
QTS offers custom data centers, colocation, and cloud and managed services.
Chad Williams purchased his first data center in Overland Park, Kansas in 2003. Quality Technology Services was formally founded in 2005. Later that year the company acquired ITC^DeltaCom's e^deltacom business unit and Suwanee, Georgia data center for $26 million and a separate center located in Wichita, Kansas. QTS, which operated as a division of the Quality Group of Companies, was headquartered at the Suwanee, Georgia location.
QTS acquired a 960,000-square-foot Atlanta, Georgia data center in October 2006. The center, named QTS Metro Data Center, is one of the largest data centers in the world. The company announced the acquisition of Globix Corporation's United States hosting business the same day. In December of that year, the company purchased the clients of Kansas City, Kansas-based First National Technology Solutions. QTS also acquired Jersey City, New Jersey-based NTT USA LLC and its data center in late 2006.
In 2007, QTS acquired a data center in Santa Clara, California. It added a Miami, Florida-based data center in 2008. The company purchased a Lenexa, Kansas data center that it had previously been leasing in June 2011.
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