Digital Realty Achieves 'Five 9s' Of Uptime For Ninth Consecutive Year
Results a testament to the company's operations discipline and focus on customers.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has announced that it has achieved "five 9s" of uptime for its data center suites for the ninth consecutive year, with 99.999% availability throughout 2015. This level of availability translates to less than five-and-a-half cumulative minutes of downtime over the course of the year. Uptime metrics are based on a comprehensive evaluation of data center suites owned and operated by Digital Realty worldwide, using standard industry methodology.
"We are pleased to announce that this is the ninth consecutive year Digital Realty has provided our customers with the highest level of reliability in uptime," said A. William Stein, Digital Realty's chief executive officer. "Our standards-based approach to construction, operations and a rigorous maintenance program, coupled with an industry-leading team of experts managing our data center suites around the globe, allow us to consistently deliver solutions that provide the reliability our customers require to run their businesses."