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Is Virtualization a Datacenter Killer?

In this new video from Digital Realty Trust, CTO Jim Smith answers this question and more. Jim explores the relationship between virtualization technology and the data center.

Case Study: Financial Services and Banking – It Only Took 410 Days to Build the Empire State Building

You’re one of the largest financial institutions in the world and you need a new datacenter. It won’t be your first one so it should be pretty simple right? Not so much. The lessons the customer learned after making this assumption give new definition to the phrase “Don’t try this at home”.

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The 10 Advantages

You need to know why Digital Realty Trust is the “Secure Choice” as your data center partner. Watch this video to find out why.

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Case Study: Financial Services and Banking – Consolidation

No one builds data centers faster than Digital Realty Trust. Learn about how this capability helped a Wall Street survivor.

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Case Study: Financial Services and Banking – Power Requirements

Developing the requirements for a data center are the end product of a firm’s power usage. See how one company’s understanding of power measurement helped them get the facility that they needed.

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Case Study: Financial Services and Banking – Milliseconds

Connectivity is often an overlooked consideration when looking for a new data center. See how selecting the right site made a competitive difference for a leading trading company.

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Digital Realty Trust and KDC: A New Build-to-Suit Alternative

Digital Realty Trust’s and KDC’s strategic alliance delivers a vertically integrated solution for your Build To Suit project. Digital Realty Trust provides the following benefits versus building your data center yourself:

  • Better: Your facility is built by the leaders in corporate Build to Suit solutions and wholesale data centers
  • Faster: Your data center will be completed in half the time required versus building it yourself
  • Simpler: Digital Realty Trust and KDC offer you a “one stop shop” for your build to suit facility
  • Cheaper: The lease for your facility is free from financial contingency.

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Drivers of Data Center Growth: Virtualization

New technologies continue to emerge to facilitate new capabilities and applications that are driving increased data center growth. As it grows in popularity some industry pundits have taken the position that virtualization will have a negative impact on the data center market. In this new white paper from Digital Realty Trust you’ll see why virtualization software is actually a powerful complementary tool that can increase the efficiency of your existing and future data centers. The paper also explores the different modes of virtualization and how they are used by users just like you to support the seemingly never ending new applications that your facilities need to support.

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