Digital Realty Trust operates 300+ data centers across 55+ metro areas in over 25 countries on six continents, providing colocation, interconnection, and carrier-neutral connectivity through its PlatformDIGITAL® infrastructure. The company serves 5,000+ customers - enterprises, cloud providers, and network operators - with a stated uptime commitment of 99.999%.
For security teams, the operational reality centers on defending distributed physical and logical infrastructure at massive scale. PlatformDIGITAL® is built as a global interconnection platform where customers, cloud providers, and carriers converge, which means threat models involve not just traditional data center physical security and facility access controls, but also the intersection of multiple trust domains meeting on shared infrastructure. The platform is positioned around AI-ready workload support, which introduces additional compute density and thermal management considerations alongside conventional security domains.
Digital Realty's infrastructure strategy emphasizes seamless connectivity and rapid deployment across geographies. This translates to security work that must span legacy data center operations (established facility-level controls, power, cooling, physical access) alongside modern connectivity orchestration - peering arrangements, cross-border data movement, and the operational complexity of a carrier-neutral platform where competing interests and tenants coexist. Sustainable design is also part of the operational mandate, layering environmental monitoring and efficiency metrics into infrastructure security baselines.
