“This is the sixth consecutive year Digital Realty has provided the highest level of reliability in uptime,” said Dave Caron, senior vice president of portfolio management at Digital Realty. “Over the past six years, our operating portfolio of Turn-Key Flex facilities has grown from 23 to 158 data centers. During this time, our Turn-Key Flex data centers have provided nearly 228 million minutes, approximately 443 years, of uptime. Our standards-based approach to construction, operations and a rigorous maintenance program coupled with the industry leading team of experts managing our data centers allows us to consistently deliver solutions that provide the reliability our customers require to run their businesses.”
Digital Realty’s data center network supports more than 30 Fortune 500 companies across the globe. The company’s commitment to uptime reliability allows its customers – telecommunications network providers, IT services firms, financial services organizations, Internet enterprises and corporate enterprise customers – to continue to run their businesses without disruption.
“I am extremely proud of our uptime performance this year,” said Michael F. Foust, chief executive officer at Digital Realty. “Our data center infrastructure not only performed as expected under normal circumstances, we experienced zero down time in Digital Realty owned and operated data centers in the path of Superstorm Sandy. This is a testament not only to the strength and resiliency of our designs, but also to the teams we have on the ground operating the data centers on behalf of our customers.”
Digital Realty's Turn-Key Flex solution is a modular approach to delivering secure, enterprise quality data center space to meet customers' just-in-time requirements. Designed to provide maximum flexibility, reliability and efficiency, each Turn-Key Flex facility comes fully commissioned with its own dedicated electrical and mechanical infrastructure. Utilizing Digital Realty's proprietary POD Architecture® and extensive supply chain, Digital Realty's next generation Turn-Key Flex data center solution is designed for the future and ready today.
