News Release                                                            

USDA Data Center Certification Awarded

The National Finance Center's (NFC) new primary computing facility in Denver, Colorado, has been certified by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as an enterprise class data center. This certification means that NFC's new data center has met or exceeded all the standards established by the Department. USDA defines an enterprise data center as "a professionally managed and operated, institutionally supported facility, providing convenient access to, manipulation of, and/or distribution of data (including supporting information and expertise) for a wide community of users. It has a long-term charter (not tied to the lifetime of a specific project) and is capable of hosting systems that may be department-wide, shared services or agency-specific. The facility must meet USDA specified physical standards and sustain USDA specified operational standards."