Apr, 2009 : Digital Realty Trust Signs New Lease Agreement with IBM


📅 - Under the agreement, IBM will expand its datacentre accommodation capacity in its facility to support growth in demand for its services.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a manager and owner of corporate and internet gateway datacentres, today announced that it has completed a second Turn-Key Datacentre lease agreement with IBM for space at its suburban Paris facility. The company states that under this agreement, IBM will expand its datacentre accommodation capacity in company's facility to support growth in demand for its services.

It explains that its Turn-Key Datacentre facilities provide environments to house mission critical infrastructure, by providing advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features. This guarantees that critical applications are available while optimising energy efficiency. The company further states that its Turn-Key Datacentres are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughout Europe and North America. Each Turn-Key Datacentre facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimised for green operation. It claims that every Turn-Key Datacentre is built using the its proprietary POD Architecture and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use.

"Our goal is to be a true partner to our customers, by supporting their datacentre strategy and ensure the expansion of their IT teams and facilities through our expertise and resources. This new agreement with IBM in France consolidates our relationship and we are proud to be collaborating with them once again on an important datacentre project," said Bernard Geoghegan, Senior Vice President of International Operations of Digital Realty Trust. "Our Turn-Key Datacentre space enables customers to reduce the upfront capital costs for these critical projects while accelerating their ability to deploy new systems. These are very compelling reasons for companies to select Digital Realty Trust as their datacentre partner."

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