Knowledge Library

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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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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Podcast: The Evolution of the Customer Specific Datacenter Alternative

Chris Crosby, SVP, discusses how firm’s with specific datacenter requirements now have viable alternatives to designing and building these facilities themselves.

Video Podcast: The Evolution of the Customer Specific Datacenter Alternative

Chris Crosby, Digital Realty Trust Senior Vice President, talks about how firm’s with specific datacenter requirements now have viable alternatives to designing and building these facilities themselves.
 

The Applications Driven Data Center

Normally developing anything to meet a “worst case scenario” makes perfect sense. With data centers this may not always be the case. In this video Michael Manos, Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President of Technical Services, discusses why you may not always want to design to your most restrictive scenario.

Podcast: Chiller Side Chat with Michael Manos

Here, we make the “Global, Live Chiller Side Chat with Michael Manos” webinar recording available via Podcast.