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Virginia’s New River Valley is a dynamic place for data centers. Along with convenient locations with redundant fiber, power and water, we offer an attractive business climate for data centers, including low electric rates, excellent fiber connectivity and a readily available, highly skilled workforce to make the New River Valley your link to success.

Data Centers/Data Related Companies in the New River Valley:

• Brush Mountain Data Center (Blacksburg, VA) — specializes in data security and remote data backup services and provides a secure facility for organizations with mission critical computing requirements. www.bmdctr.com
• EnergyWare (Blacksburg, VA) — develops and markets efficient computing software solutions to data centers. EnergyWare is delivering solutions which make green computing a reality for large and small enterprises around the world. www.energyware.com
• Datalink Systems Inc. (Blacksburg, VA) — provides software solutions to design and develop business applications, e-commerce sites, computer networks, Business Process Optimization, Business Intelligence, Data-Warehousing and complete RFID solutions. www.dsiva.com
• Rackspace (Blacksburg, VA) — delivers enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. www.rackspace.com
• MiserWare (Blacksburg, VA) — makes servers and PCs more energy efficient without compromising productivity to ensure systems are less costly to operate and always available. www.miserware.com

System X Super Computer at Virginia Tech

Support Services:

• Virginia Tech System X Supercomputer: http://www.arc.vt.edu/arc/SystemX/
• Virginia Tech Center for Power Electronic Systems: http://www.cpes.vt.edu/
• Virginia Tech Energy Management Institute: http://www.eng.vt.edu/research/pdf/energy_systems_fly_sheet_9-04.pdf
• Virginia Tech Center for High End Computing Systems:http://www.checs.eng.vt.edu/
• Virginia Tech Center for Human Computer Interaction: http://www.cs.vt.edu/node/118
• Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science: www.cs.vt.edu
• Radford University Department of Information Technology: https://php.radford.edu/~itec/

Research Sponsors include (but are not limited to):

NSF, US Department of Defense, DARPA, US Army Research Laboratory, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, VDOT, NIH, Census Bureau, US Geological Survey, EPA, ST Microelectronics, McQ Inc., Semiconductor Research Corporation, Sun Microsystems.

Regional and Location Information

• Extremely low cost of doing business (utilities, taxes, etc.)
• Area of outstanding beauty, recreation, sports, culture, and
  education
• Available, well-trained workforce with an outstanding work ethic
• Home of Virginia Tech, Radford University, and New River
  Community College
• Located on Virginia’s I-81 Corridor and close to I-77 and I-64
  with N,S,E,W rail lines
• Home of the Virginia TradePort
  (Port of Entry #1412 and FTZ #238)