Tony Bishop
we support our customers in such a fast-paced environment .”
Digital Realty is continuing to grow , both in scale and agility , through a combination of organic and acquisition-fueled growth . In 2015 , the company completed its acquisition of data centre solutions company Telx in a deal valued in excess of US $ 1.8bn . “ The Telx acquisition has been a huge boost to us and our ability to provide interconnection , which massively helped us build PlatformDIGITAL™ ,” Dyer explains . In addition to the Telx acquisition , the business has also completed the acquisition of data centre infrastructure company Ascenty and entered into joint ventures related to three of its data centres .
The past year alone has seen Digital Realty expand its operations in Frankfurt , Tokyo , Chicago , Dublin , Northern Virginia , Brazil and more , as well as announcing plans to enter the South Korean market for the first time . A large element of Digital Realty ’ s growth is self-funded , an impressive feat given what Dyer
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Tony Bishop
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
As part of the Digital Realty CTO team , Tony plays a central role in helping the organisation build a differentiated global platform and ecosystem strategy to enable enterprises and services providers to accelerate their digital business strategies on PlatformDIGITAL™ .
Prior to Digital Realty , Bishop served as VP of Global Enterprise at Equinix , Chief Strategy Officer for 451 Research and served at Morgan Stanley as Managing Director , Global Head of Enterprise Datacenter Operations & Strategy .
He is the author of Next Generation Datacenters – Driving Extreme Efficiency & Effective Costs Savings ( July 2009 ).
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