Digital Realty Trust, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust, which engages in the provision of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and currently employs 4,282 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2004-11-03. The firm owns, acquires, develops, and operates data centers through its operating partnership subsidiary, Digital Realty Trust, L.P. The firm is focused on providing data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions for domestic and international customers across a variety of industry verticals ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and consumer products. The company provides its customers with access to the connected data communities with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 55+ metros across 30+ countries on six continents. The firm's PlatformDIGITAL is a global data center platform for scaling digital business which enables customers to deploy critical infrastructure with a global data center provider.