Digital Realty is a global provider of data center services and colocation built around PlatformDIGITAL®, its platform for deploying, connecting, and controlling critical infrastructure. The company positions its footprint as a secure meeting place where enterprises and service providers can place workloads close to clouds, networks, partners, and users while addressing performance, security, and compliance requirements.
Its portfolio spans shared and dedicated colocation, custom data center development, and interconnection services that support hybrid cloud, multicloud, AI, and other data-intensive applications. Digital Realty also extends its platform with Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) and hands-on validation through its Innovation Lab to help customers design, test, and scale distributed infrastructure more effectively.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Digital Realty combines colocation capacity, private connectivity, and cloud-adjacent deployment options across a global footprint. Its capabilities range from smaller shared environments to large dedicated deployments, including AI-ready high-density configurations, resilient power and cooling, and on-site operational support. The company emphasizes carrier- and cloud-neutral choice so customers can architect hybrid and multicloud environments without being boxed into a single provider model.
Beyond physical space and power, Digital Realty supports low-latency interconnection, connectivity orchestration, and ecosystem access across campuses and metro markets. Its broader offer includes methodology-led design support, workload validation, and partner-enabled cloud connectivity that help customers manage Data Gravity, improve resilience, and align infrastructure decisions with security, compliance, and sustainability objectives.
Products and Services
- PlatformDIGITAL®: Digital Realty’s flagship global data center platform for deploying, connecting, and controlling critical infrastructure while supporting digital business growth, AI initiatives, and Data Gravity challenges.
- Powered Base Buildings®: Fit-out-ready data centers on power- and fiber-provisioned sites that enable faster deployment with pre-installed infrastructure and room for customer customization.
- Data Center Suites: Move-in-ready modular suites designed for immediate deployment, flexible subdivision, and distributed redundant operations.
- Build-to-Suit: Custom data center development that lets customers tailor site, architectural, mechanical, electrical, cooling, and security elements to their requirements.
- High-Density Colocation: AI- and HPC-oriented colocation with liquid cooling options and support for power-dense deployments that scale from high-density cabinets to multi-megawatt environments.
- ServiceFabric®: A global interconnection and orchestration product family for securely linking infrastructure, data sets, clouds, applications, and ecosystem participants.
- ServiceFabric® Connect: A centralized interface within the ServiceFabric® family for interconnecting and managing workflows, applications, multiple clouds, and ecosystem participants.
- Campus Connect: Layer 1 physical connectivity between points inside a Digital Realty campus, extending access to on-campus cloud and network ecosystems.
- Cross Connect: Dedicated physical connections between customer-defined endpoints within a Digital Realty facility for secure, low-latency access to carriers, clouds, and partners.
- Metro Connect: Point-to-point metro-area connectivity that links deployments across Digital Realty facilities within the same city for greater reach and lower latency.
- Data Center Services: 24/7 on-site support services including remote hands, equipment assistance, patching, reboots, deployment help, and scheduled operational support.
- Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL): A hands-on proof-of-concept environment where customers and partners can test and validate AI, hybrid cloud, and colocation deployments before broader rollout.
Target Customers
Digital Realty primarily serves enterprises and service providers that need secure, scalable infrastructure for hybrid cloud, multicloud, AI, analytics, and other data-intensive workloads. Its model is well suited to organizations that want cloud-adjacent deployment, private interconnection, or a path away from self-operated data centers while retaining control over performance, compliance, and data location.
Digital Realty also targets network providers, cloud platforms, managed service providers, and system integrators that benefit from carrier-neutral ecosystems and proximity to customers and partners. Its industry coverage spans financial services, healthcare, public sector, retail, manufacturing, transportation, media and entertainment, utilities, insurance, automotive, and professional services.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Oracle Cloud Marketplace: Digital Realty maintains Oracle-aligned cloud presence centered on PlatformDIGITAL® deployments for OCI-oriented architectures, including Oracle FastConnect connectivity and Oracle Solution Center support.
- AWS: Digital Realty supports private AWS connectivity through AWS Direct Connect and extends hybrid cloud deployments with ServiceFabric® Connect and AWS Outposts-related integration options.
- Microsoft Azure: Digital Realty provides Microsoft Azure integration through Azure ExpressRoute, including hosted connectivity across PlatformDIGITAL® and ExpressRoute Metro support in select metros.
- Google Cloud: Digital Realty enables private connectivity to Google Cloud through Dedicated and Partner Interconnect options, with broader regional reach available through ServiceFabric®.
Key People
- Andrew Power: President & Chief Executive Officer
- Matt Mercier: Chief Financial Officer
- Jeff Tapley: Chief Operating Officer
- Chris Sharp: Chief Technology Officer
- Colin McLean: Chief Revenue Officer
- Greg Wright: Chief Investment Officer
- Jeannie Lee: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
- Steve Smith: Managing Director, Americas
- Paula Cogan: EMEA Managing Director
- Serene Nah: Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
- Employees: Approximately 4,800
- Annual Revenue: $6.11 billion
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Hundreds of subsidiaries, including Digital Realty Holdings US, LLC, Digital Realty Netherlands B.V., Digital Realty Italy S.r.L., Digital Realty Sweden AB, and Digital Realty Korea Ltd.
- Publicly Listed: NYSE: DLR (Digital Realty Trust, Inc.)
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Representative Vendor in Gartner Market Guide for Private Connectivity for Cloud Services, Global (2025).
- IDC: Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Datacenter Colocation Services 2025 Vendor Assessment. Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Datacenter Services Sustainability 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment.
