Information Technology

The future of safety is being built in Fairfax NOVA among a robust community of innovators, including more than 500 cybersecurity companies headquartered across the region. With proximity to all major federal agencies and prestigious educational institutions, Fairfax NOVA cybersecurity firms have access to people and resources that Silicon Valley can’t beat. The unique density of award-winning companies, talent, resources and training programs in such a concentrated area has made the region the smartest and most secure choice for cybersecurity companies to establish themselves.

Big things happen for digital media agencies in Fairfax NOVA. While social media’s forerunners may have called San Francisco or New York home, the digital media of tomorrow is thriving in the Washington, D.C. metro area thanks to large business and consumer markets.

More than 133,000 workers comprised of both tech talent and creative designers, contribute to the creative and digital media space in Fairfax NOVA. Proximity to universities producing graduates skilled at digital content creation and development sweetens the deal for any company looking to invest in Fairfax NOVA.

Bring your headquarters to the epicenter of the software, cloud and data analytics industries. Boasting the second-largest computer and mathematical workforce in the nation, higher education institutions across Fairfax NOVA award more than 16,000 degrees every year in fields associated with data analytics.

Fairfax NOVA offers cloud-based business solutions for companies to do their computing. Whether it’s the public, private or hybrid cloud, the region embraces servers, storage, networking, virtualization and applications, and our strong concentration of cloud computing businesses provide products across the spectrum — including infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service.

Fairfax NOVA firms benefit from a highly skilled workforce ready for staffing and a customer base of both government and private sector clients, not to mention a robust internet infrastructure. Reston and Tysons host two important internet exchange points, positioning Fairfax as one of the world leaders in data, cloud computing and information technology.