Construction Magazine June 2019 | Page 184

DIGITAL REALTY

Digital Realty has just opened its third Sydney facility . Its Director of Construction , Daniel Howard , tells Niki Waldegrave why it ’ s so important to the APAC footprint

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D igital Realty prides itself on delivering a portfolio of data centre solutions with a record of 99.999 % uptime for the past 11 consecutive years , equating to more than 1.7bn operating minutes , unmatched by any other data centre provider in the world .

It has more than 195 centres globally across over 30 markets throughout Europe , North America , Asia and Australia , servicing top-tier clients including Facebook , IBM , AT & T , LinkedIn and Equinix . Its Sydney data centres are hugely important to its Asia-Pacific business and SYD 11 – its new Digital Erskine Park 2 Data Centre – is the new kid on the block , following the adjacent SYD 10 facility .
The SYD11 facility on 13-23 Templar Road is the largest facility the business has built in Australia and is located adjacent to its existing data centre in Erskine Park , which opened in November 2012 .
JUNE 2019