USA - Southwest

With 12 data centers in eight states, QTS owns, operates and manages approximately 4.7 million square feet of data center infrastructure and supports more than 850 customers.

When communicating with call centers, familiarity can make all the difference.

The existing office in Phoenix will be co-located with the new head office and will serve as a unified location for human resources, research and development, product management, marketing and sales.

Company eyes growth opportunity, increased productivity and enhanced safety; projected completion date for the new structure is June 2015.

The new facility will provide room for future organizational growth and will feature a state-of-the-art distribution center and product showroom.

Business is booming in Oklahoma, and the state's secretary of commerce explains how and why things are only going to get better.

Tulsa-based test lab, Repair Service and Distribution Centers will also be relocated to Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

With smart new regional growth strategies and generous federal funding initiatives, high-tech hubs are springing up all over the United States.

Three of the region's health care providers, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Methodist Hospital System and Parkland Hospital System, will partner to set up and operate the North Texas facility.

It took a while, but we've found some positive news about the NFL.

The center will officially open its doors in the first quarter of 2015, and will soon be hiring for a variety of jobs.

The Santa Cruz Commerce Center is a shovel-ready site with 40 acres of available lots for build-to-suit projects.

The Barclays Technology Center will support the bank's operations globally by providing technology support to the business and developing solutions for all the group's activities and requirements.

Specialty pharmaceutical distributor more than doubles warehousing capacity and adds additional shipping capabilities; expands operating hours for customers nationwide.

Memphis and New Orleans continue their domination of logistics categories while Houston leads in renewable energy and Youngstown is tops in export growth.

We’re marking the 10th anniversary of our annual rankings festival by doing what we do every year: refining our rankings criteria to give you the most meaningful benchmarks of state and metro performance.

In this year’s Metro Rankings Report, we’ve taken note of the crucial role exports are playing in the Recovery for many locations by charting their success in two of our rankings categories, Exports Growth Leaders and Exports Recovery Leaders. We've also included our Global Rankings within this story.

Gov. Perry announces TEF investments bringing new Charles Schwab facility to El Paso and deepening company’s roots in Austin.

The burgeoning high-tech industry in Austin has made Texas the second-largest semiconductor job market after California, while public-private partnerships in Baton Rouge spur initiatives in new high-growth sectors.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing $500,000 to help an Oklahoma town grow butterflies.