Capgemini Signs Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) Lease Agreement With Digital Realty Trust

DUBLIN and PARIS, June 25, 2009; Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world’s largest wholesale datacentre provider, has completed a Turn-Key DatacentreSM  lease agreement with Capgemini (www.capgemini.com), one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. Under this agreement, Capgemini will establish a new datacentre in a Digital Realty Trust property in France during the summer to support the growth of its datacentre infrastructure.

“We are delighted to be working with Capgemini on this important datacentre project for its global IT strategy. Our Turn-Key Datacentre SM is an ideal solution for corporate customers such as Capgemini, allowing them to focus on deploying their IT systems in a timely, cost effective manner with a datacentre infrastructure partner they can rely on for the long term,” said Bernard Geoghegan, Senior Vice President, International Operations of Digital Realty Trust.

Over the past two years Capgemini has put much effort into upgrading its hosting offering in order to provide its clients with maximum resilience and security levels, optimisation of energy costs, together with a high level quality of services. Capgemini chose Digital Realty Trust because it specialises in datacentre facilities, has international operations, and is financially sound. “By leasing space in its facility, we are able to move forward immediately with our datacentre plans without the significant capital investment ordinarily associated with large hosting projects,” said Olivier Herrmann, Capgemini’s Deputy Chief Operations Officer, Outsourcing Services. “We also chose Digital Realty Trust because of the company’s proven track record of supplying reliable solutions to the world’s leading companies.”

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacentre SM facilities provide state-of-the-art environments for supporting mission critical infrastructure, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that critical applications are available while optimising energy efficiency. Digital Realty Trust’s Turn-Key Datacentres SM are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughout North America and Europe. Each Turn-Key Datacentre SM facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimised for green operation. Every Turn-Key Datacentre SM is built using the company’s proprietary POD Architecture SM and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use.