Digital Realty Trust, a leading global provider of data centre solutions, has achieved "five 9s" of uptime for its data centres for the fifth consecutive year with 99.999% availability during 2011. These uptime metrics are based on a comprehensive evaluation of the Company's facilities worldwide using standard industry methodology.

"For the fifth consecutive year, Digital Realty has provided a high level of reliability in uptime in our data centres. Our track record is a direct result of how well our facilities are designed, uilt and operated," said Dave Caron, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Management at Digital Realty. "Over the past 7 years, we have grown our data centre operating portfolio from 26 to 148 facilities, while steadily decreasing outage time. Our ability to consistently deliver this level of uptime supports our standards-based approach to data centre construction and operations and allows us to deliver solutions that provide the reliability our customers require to run their businesses."

Source: PR Newswire