About Digital Realty Trust

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Digital Realty Trust, Inc. is the world's largest wholesale data center provider. The Company is focused on providing Turn-Key Datacenters^® and custom data center solutions for domestic and international customers across a variety of industry verticals including financial services, information technology and internet enterprises.

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Who We Are

Data Center Solutions

Digital Realty Trust has over 90 properties that contain applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry customers and corporate enterprise datacenter customers. Comprising approximately 16.1 million rentable square feet, including 2.0 million square feet of space held for redevelopment as of July 19, 2010. Digital Realty Trust's portfolio is located in 27 markets throughout North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim.

A Strong Financial Foundation

Digital Realty Trust’s financial strength offers our customers a degree of security that our competitors cannot match. We are a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. We have an enterprise value in excess of $8 billion and have an average annual growth rate in our funds from operations (FFO) of 21% since our inception. This robust financial status is further exemplified by our status as the only developer with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies. What this means to you is the following:

An enduring partnership: Our financial strength and stability provide you the assurance that Digital Realty Trust will be your data center partner for your current data center needs and those in the future.

We complete what we start: Unlike many of our less financially secure competitors, we complete our projects. Digital Realty Trust has never halted or abandoned a project in our history.

We have a long-term strategy: We don’t buy a property with the intention of selling it after a year or two. In short, we don’t flip properties. A lease commenced with Digital Realty Trust concludes with Digital Realty Trust.

A consistent price: Unlike competitors that are only able to offer terms that expose you to unforeseen charges like break/fix expenses, the rates that are specified in your Digital Realty Trust lease are the rates you pay. Period.

More access to capital for your data center: Our investment credit ratings provide us access to paths for more capital. Our growth isn’t predicated on excessively risky propositions like mortgaging or selling a property in order to continue operations.

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Our Data Center Customers

Over 10% of Fortune's Global 200 companies rely on Digital Realty Trust to provide solutions for their data center requirements. Our customers include leading media, financial services, communications and technology-based businesses that require advanced data center facilities that incorporate sophisticated power and cooling architectures, multi-layered security and enhanced fire suppression systems to support their mission critical applications including virtual and high density computing environments.

Our Green Data Center Vision

Digital Realty Trust is committed to improving the performance and energy efficiency of our data centers through the creation, adoption and promotion of industry-leading best data center practices and experience. We are pioneers in thinking about green data centers, as well as, adopting and building to LEED and BREEAM certification requirements. We are also a Contributing Member of The Green Grid.

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Executive Bios

Rick Magnuson

Chairman

As our Chairman, Rick Magnuson is responsible for defining Digital Realty's overall business strategy. In 2001, Mr. Magnuson co-founded the advisor to GI Partners and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since that time. Since November 1999, Mr. Magnuson has also served as Executive Managing Director of CB Richard Ellis Investors, where he formed, and continues to manage, the investments and activities of GI Partners. From 1994 through 1999, Mr. Magnuson held various positions with Nomura Securities, most recently as Deputy Managing Director of Nomura's London-based Principal Finance Group. Prior to that, he was a Director in the Investment Banking division of Merrill Lynch, and before that was with Digital Research, the company that developed the personal computer operating system. Mr. Magnuson also founded, and later sold, InterActive Software, a software services company. He serves as a director for NYSE-listed Glenborough Realty Trust and for two private companies. Mr. Magnuson holds a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Michael F. Foust

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Foust has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a Director of Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR) since its IPO in October 2004. Mike co-founded the predecessor private equity fund, GI Partners, in 2001 and served as its Managing Director since that time. During his tenure at GI Partners, Mr. Foust directed the acquisition of technology-related properties and portfolio management. He has over 23 years of experience. Mr. Foust was a Senior Vice President at CB Richard Ellis, where he managed regional asset services operations, and he was a Senior Director at CB Richard Ellis Investors. Prior to CBRE, Mr. Foust held senior portfolio management and investment positions at UBS Asset Management, Karsten Realty Advisors and Trammell Crow Company. Prior to his real estate career, he participated in the origination of two related international telecom companies operating in New York and London. Mr. Foust received an AB degree magna cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

A. William Stein

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Investment Officer

Mr. Stein has served as CFO and CIO for Digital Realty Trust since July 2004. With more than 25 years experience, his previous positions include Co-Head of VentureBank@PNC and Media and Communications Finance and Managing Director at The PNC Financial Services Group; President/COO and EVP/CFO of TriNet Corporate Realty Trust, now part of Starwood Capital; and several senior financial and investment management positions at Westinghouse Electric, Westinghouse Financial Services, and Duquesne Light Company. In addition, Mr. Stein practiced law for eight years specializing in both litigation and securities and finance. Mr. Stein received an AB degree in Classics from Princeton University, a JD degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MBA degree with Distinction from Carnegie Mellon University.

Scott E. Peterson

Senior Vice President of Acquisition Activities

Scott E. Peterson is Digital Realty Trust's Senior Vice President responsible for our acquisition activities. From 2002 until our initial public offering in October 2004, Mr. Peterson was a Managing Director of GI Partners where he was responsible for property acquisitions with an emphasis on technology-related properties. Mr. Peterson has more than 17 years of real estate experience and was most recently a Senior Vice President with GIC Real Estate, the real estate investment entity for the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. Previously, Mr. Peterson was active in investments, development and asset management with LaSalle Partners, a real estate services company, and Trammell Crow Company, a real estate developer. Mr. Peterson received a B.A. degree and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University.

Chris J. Crosby

Senior Vice President of Corporate Development

Chris J. Crosby has served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development since August 2009. Prior to this role, he served as Senior Vice President Sales and Technical Services since October 2005. He joined Digital Realty Trust as Vice President of our sales and technical services activities at the completion of our initial public offering in October 2004. Since 2003, Mr. Crosby was Managing Director of Proferian, an operating partner of GI Partners. While at Proferian, Mr. Crosby was responsible for leasing and sales within the GI Partners portfolio with an emphasis on technology-related leasing including turn-key datacenter space. Mr. Crosby has more than 17 years of technology experience and was most recently a consultant for CRG West, an operating partner of The Carlyle Group, formed in 2001 to oversee and enhance strategic telecom assets managed by Carlyle Realty Group. Previously, Mr. Crosby was active in sales, sales management and product development at Nortel Networks, a leading supplier of products and services that support the Internet and other public and private data, voice and multimedia communications networks. Mr. Crosby received a B.S. degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

David J. Caron

Senior Vice President of Portfolio Management

David J. Caron, Senior Vice President of Portfolio Management since February, 2009, joined Digital Realty Trust as Vice President of Portfolio Management at the completion of our initial public offering in October 2004. In this role, Mr. Caron was responsible for the performance of Digital’s eastern region. Prior to joining Digital Realty Trust, Mr. Caron served for 12 years as Vice President of Asset Management at Bank of Boston, where he specialized in the management and disposition of a national portfolio of commercial office and retail properties. Previously, Mr. Caron spent 12 years at John Hancock, where in his last role he was the Vice President of Operations for John Hancock Investment Services. In that role he structured private and public real estate funds and oversaw SEC filings for the funds. Mr. Caron received a B.S. degree from Northeastern University.

Jim Smith

Chief Technology Officer

Jim Smith oversees data center development, the company's efficiency & green strategy, and power procurement & energy management. In the past four years, Jim and the Digital Realty Trust team have delivered more than 300MW of UPS capacity on over 60 data center projects in North America and Europe. This portfolio includes the industry's first LEED Gold certified data center and the UK’s first BREEAM certified Excellent data center. Jim has a BSc in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and an MBA from London Business School. He was named an InfoWorld top 25 CTO of 2008.

Bernard Geoghegan

Senior Vice President of International Operations

Bernard has served as Senior Vice President, International since September 2008 and is the senior Digital Realty Trust officer responsible for the general management, driving activity and overseeing the growth of the international business. This includes the management and operations of Digital Realty Trust’s international portfolio. Bernard is a veteran of the IT industry with over 25 years experience in the sector. Prior to joining Digital Realty Trust, Bernard was the CEO of Servecentric Ltd., a provider of Co-location and premium Managed Services to the Irish market. Before this Bernard has held senior Operations and IT roles at Worldport and Xerox Europe and held various IT Management and Software Development roles with Pioneer Investments, Informix Software Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation and Ashton-Tate.

Kris Kumar

Regional Head, Asia Pacific

Kris Kumar comes to Digital Realty Trust with 28 years of experience in the IT/data center infrastructure, property and marine industries. Immediately prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kumar was the president and co-founder of a specialized consulting and project implementation business that conceptualized, business-planned and delivered facilities and move-in ready data center projects for major corporate enterprises and international telecom and IT companies across the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Kumar also served as a Marine Engineer in the Indian, British and American Merchant Navy for 10 years. As a Chief Engineer he developed his extensive experience and expertise in critical engineering systems, planning and design engineering for uptime and reliability as well as maintenance systems, processes and procedures. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Marine Engineering (Distinction) and a Postgraduate degree in Facilities Management & Finance from Sydney University.

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