Traded as NYSE: QTS Key people Chad Williams (CEO) Total assets $831 million (2013) Number of employees 400 (2013) Net income 3.8 million USD (2013) | Industry Data center Operating income CEO Chad Williams (2005–) Founded 2003 Type Public company | |
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Trading name Quality Technology Services Headquarters Chicago, Illinois, United States Subsidiaries Naval Diving Unit, Herakles, LLC, Globix Hosting, LLC | ||
QTS Realty Trust (popularly known as Quality Technology Services or QTS) NYSE: 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.
History
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.
QTS acquired Sacramento, California-based Herakles LLC and its 92,000-square-foot data center in January 2013. Later that year, QTS acquired a 40-acre campus in Irving, Texas in order to open a Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex-based data center. QTS went public in October of that year. The company was listed as QTS Realty Trust on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol QTS. QTS opened a Richmond, Virginia data center in January 2014. It had acquired the facility, a former Qimonda semiconductor plant, in 2010.
QTS also owns Carpathia Hosting, a leading provider of hybrid cloud services and managed hosting. QTS acquired Carpathia in May 2015 for $326 million.