Digital Realty Participates in Open Compute Summit and Becomes Official Member of Open Compute Project

SAN FRANCISCO, December 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Open Compute Foundation Is Industry Initiative to Increase Pace of Innovation and Access to Scale Computing Technology

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a global provider of data center solutions, participated in the second annual Open Compute Summit (http://opencompute.org/summit/) hosted by Facebook in New York City on October 27, 2011. The Open Compute Summit is the biannual conference organized by the Open Compute Project, an initiative begun earlier this year with a contribution from Facebook. It is based on the premise that greater openness and collaboration have the potential to increase the pace of innovation in the space, open up greater access to scale computing technology to everyone, make scale computing more efficient, and help reduce the environmental impact of infrastructure technology.

Digital Realty's Director of Engineering, Kevin Dalton, participated with other industry experts on a panel and workshop that focused on design and engineering best practices for data centers. In addition, Digital Realty has become an official member of the newly unveiled Open Compute Foundation, which was formed to lead the Open Compute Project.

"Digital Realty has been actively involved in the Open Compute Project through our long-standing collaboration with Facebook on numerous data center projects. Becoming an official member of the new Open Compute Foundation was a natural next step," said Jim Smith, Chief Technology Officer for Digital Realty. "We look forward to working with other members of the Foundation who share our commitment to developing a blueprint for data center facilities that increases efficiency, reduces costs and mitigates their environmental impact. Digital Realty is proud to participate in this important work."

"We are planning to make the Open Compute power and cooling option available in our Powered Base Buildings and Turn-Key Datacenters in order to facilitate the adoption and delivery of this new type of data center architecture," continued Mr. Smith. "For the many corporate enterprise customers that may not have the resources to operate or deploy data centers at Facebook's scale, Digital Realty can help bridge the gap for them in our existing portfolio or new build-to-suit facilities utilizing the same leading edge architecture."

For more information about the Open Compute Foundation and last week's Summit, visit http://opencompute.org/.

About Digital Realty

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. focuses on delivering customer driven data center solutions by providing secure, reliable and cost effective facilities that meet each customer's unique data center needs. Digital Realty's customers include domestic and international companies across multiple industry verticals ranging from information technology and Internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty's 98 properties, excluding three properties held as investments in unconsolidated joint ventures, comprise approximately 17.4 million square feet as of October 27, 2011, including 2.1 million square feet of space held for redevelopment. Digital Realty's portfolio is located in 30 markets throughout Europe, North America, Singapore and Australia. Additional information about Digital Realty is included in the Company Overview, which is available on the Investors page of Digital Realty's website at http://www.digitalrealty.com.

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