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Accelerate Your IT Modernization Initiative

Government agencies trust CoreSite to achieve  data center consolidation and cloud migration objectives. Agency contractors and federal system integrators also count on CoreSite's data centers to support new tools and technologies, including AI-driven services.

Frictionless, personalized interaction with government and public sector services, compliance, cloud interconnection and secure data transfer are more important than ever. Like you, CoreSite is on a mission to deliver a citizen experience second to none.

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DELIVER A 21ST CENTURY DIGITAL EXPERIENCE
People expect the same experience they have using their favorite websites and apps when interacting with government agencies. Deliver frictionless governmental services with confidence using colocation, direct cloud connectivity and a flexible, scalable infrastructure. With data centers located in Washington, D.C. and Virginia, CoreSite’s purpose-built data centers are right where you need them.
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CUT COSTS TO MAINTAIN SERVICE WITH LIMITED BUDGETS
Minimizing IT costs is a top priority for government agencies facing limited budgets. Colocation provides several opportunities to reduce costs on power, cooling, networking and even staff. In addition, with CoreSite’s native onramps to all major cloud providers, agencies can achieve cost savings of up to 60% on cloud connectivity and roughly 70% for data replication.*
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SECURE YOUR SENSITIVE DATA
CoreSite’s highly secure environment is ideal for protecting sensitive government data. In addition, CoreSite's well-trained, in-house security staff safeguards your mission-critical government systems 24x7x365. CoreSite’s physical infrastructure and security protocols enable government agencies to meet NIST and SOC compliance, minimize risk and ensure a safe, private IT environment. Learn more: 
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TRUST IN A COMPLIANT INFRASTRUCTURE
CoreSite utilizes high-impact baseline controls for NIST 800-53 Revision 4, meeting rigorous compliance standards to support your Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) compliance efforts. CoreSite offers the physical security and infrastructure to enable customers to address almost any compliance requirement.
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WHAT IS THE PUBLIC SECTOR? The public sector refers to all organizations run by government on all levels. For the U.S., this includes federal, state, regional, local and Tribal government organizations.
WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF PUBLIC SECTOR AGENCIES? All departments and agencies within any government are part of the public sector including the military, law enforcement, public education and transportation authorities, just to name a few examples.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR? While the public sector is comprised of organizations that are owned and run by a government, the private sector is comprised of businesses that are owned and run by individuals, a group of people or other businesses.
WHAT ARE FEDERAL SYSTEM INTEGRATORS? Federal system integrators are technology service providers that are authorized to serve the federal government by building and installing hardware and software.
WHAT IS THE DATA CENTER OPTIMIZATION INITIATIVE (DCOI)?

The Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) was established in 2016, requiring government agencies to develop and report on data center strategies to consolidate inefficient infrastructure, optimize existing facilities, improve security posture, achieve cost savings, and transition to more efficient infrastructure, such as cloud services and inter-agency shared services.
WHAT IS FEDRAMP?

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) provides a standardized approach to security authorizations for cloud service offerings. In December 2022, the FedRAMP Authorization Act codified the FedRAMP program as the authoritative standardized approach to security assessment and authorization for cloud computing products and services that process unclassified federal information.

* Cost savings are based on CoreSite cost comparisons using publicly available and private information and/or CoreSite customer-reported costs savings and may not be indicative of the costs savings that may be experienced by every customer that switches to the applicable CoreSite service.