BYTEGRID Holdings, which operates highly secure, interconnected, carrier-neutral, data centers in the Washington, D.C. and Atlanta metro areas, announced a seven-year contract by the U.S. Department of Labor. Lockheed Martin serves as integrator on the project.
The contract calls for the consolidation and relocation of DOL’s data centers in metropolitan Washington into BYTEGRID’s ultra-secure, financial grade facility in Montgomery County, Maryland. The overall plans include a sequential move of data centers to BYTEGRID and to the cloud.
BYTEGRID’s facility is the largest multi-tenant data center in Maryland featuring 214,000 sq. ft. of data center space and over 90,000 sq. ft. of raised floor. It features new redundant power supply systems, providing a total of nine (9) megawatts of critical load power, twenty-two (22) megawatts of on-site power generation and cooling that exceed requirements for concurrent maintainability and fault tolerance, with future planned expansions to double critical load power capacity.
BYTEGRID said the contract supports the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), which aims to eliminate and/or consolidate 1,186 federal data centers by 2015, according to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The initiative and consolidation activity is tied to other industry trends including server virtualization, cloud computing and energy efficiency.
“The FDCCI is an initiative of significant national importance and unique opportunity for Maryland companies,” said Don Goodwin, BYTEGRID’s Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing. “We are pleased to provide the critical data center infrastructure and innovative in-center cloud bursting, meeting all key government standards for security compliance.
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