Data center and managed services provider
QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (QTS) has partnered with managed IT solutions provider GDT. With headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas, United States, QTS was established in 2005. The owner of Carpathia Hosting, QTS’ services include colocation, cloud and IT application solutions. It provides around “6 million square feet of owned mega scale data center space throughout North America”. QTS’ agreement with GDT “represents continued successful execution” of its strategic growth plan.
With headquarters in Dallas, Texas, United States, GDT is a “global IT integrator and solutions provider”. The company has around 700 employees and annual revenue in the $1 billion region. It designs, builds, delivers and manages IT solutions and services for industry leaders. The agreement will see QTS move some cloud and managed services customers to GDT. Approximately 200 customers will be transitioned by the close of 2018. GDT will also extend its colocation activity at QTS’ data centers in support of customers moved to its platform. The company will pay QTS a “recurring partner channel fee based on revenue that is transitioned”, including revenue generated in the future. The partnership will “support future revenue growth and profitability, beginning in 2019 and beyond” without significantly increasing QTS’ costs.
"We are pleased to partner with GDT, a leading managed IT provider and current QTS CloudRamp customer, to extend our hybrid solution capabilities while maintaining the consistent world-class service and support our customers have come to expect," explained CEO – QTS, Chad Williams. "This agreement also represents the next step in our strategic plan to accelerate growth and profitability. Consistent with our goal of narrowing the scope of cloud and managed services that we directly deliver, this partnership improves our ability to continue to deliver a differentiated hybrid solution, while unlocking enhanced profitability and future growth opportunities for QTS. Through SDP, we can enable a broader set of services for our customers through partner platforms including public cloud providers, Nutanix for Private Cloud, Megaport and Packetfabric for universal software-defined connectivity, and now GDT for managed hosting and other IT solutions."
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