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Who is Digital Realty?
Digital Realty is a global data center and interconnection provider that offers colocation, cloud-adjacent infrastructure, and network-rich facilities for enterprise and service provider workloads.
- Global colocation and data center capacity for enterprise and service provider infrastructure.
- Interconnection services linking enterprises, cloud providers, and network operators (interconnection).
- Cloud-adjacent infrastructure for hybrid and multi-cloud architectures (cloud infrastructure).
- Support for compliance, security, and operational resilience requirements in data center environments.
- Services for deploying, scaling, and managing IT workloads across distributed facilities and metros.
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Digital Realty operates a global portfolio of carrier-neutral data centers that provide colocation, interconnection, and cloud-adjacent infrastructure for enterprises, content providers, network operators, and cloud platforms.
The company’s data centers are used to host business-critical applications, storage, and networking equipment in controlled environments, with power, cooling, physical security, and connectivity engineered for continuous operation.
In enterprise environments, Digital Realty facilities are used as core hubs for hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, enabling organizations to place infrastructure in close proximity to major public cloud on-ramps, network backbones, and partners.
Interconnection services, including cross connects and meet-me rooms (interconnection), support private, low-latency connections between tenants, carriers, and cloud platforms, which is relevant for workloads that require predictable performance and data locality.
Digital Realty’s campuses and metro clusters provide options for distributed deployment patterns, such as active-active data centers, Disaster Recovery (DR) sites, and edge-adjacent locations, depending on latency, regulatory, and data residency requirements.
The company’s offerings align with enterprise infrastructure categories such as colocation, cloud connectivity, network hubs, and data center outsourcing, and are often evaluated alongside other global colocation and interconnection providers.
Architecturally, customers using Digital Realty facilities typically integrate standard data center technologies and protocols, including Ethernet-based networking, IP routing, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) services from carriers, and Virtual Private Network (VPN) or private connectivity to public cloud providers, as well as standard compute and storage platforms.
From a technical and business perspective, Digital Realty’s role in enterprise architectures is to supply the physical and network fabric on which organizations build virtualization, container platforms, security controls, and application services, while retaining control over hardware, connectivity choices, and topology.
Within a marketplace or directory context, Digital Realty can be categorized under colocation data centers, interconnection services, and cloud-adjacent infrastructure, serving enterprise IT, service providers, and digital platforms that require globally distributed, network-dense facilities.
Our description of Digital Realty. Updated February 2026.
