Digital Realty Trust has announced that for the sixth consecutive year, the company has achieved “five 9s” of uptime for its Turn-Key Flex data centers with 99.999% availability during 2012.
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Dave Caron, Senior Vice-President of Portfolio Management,at Digital Realty, said, “This is the sixth consecutive year Digital Realty has provided the highest level of reliability in uptime. 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 programme 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.”
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Michael F. Foust, CEO, Digital Realty, said, “Our data center infrastructure not only performed as expected under normal circumstances, we experienced zero downtime 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.”
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Digital Realty's Turn-Key Flex solution is to deliver 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 electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
