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T-Systems Ups its Global Data Center Footprint With New Arizona Facility

Posted on: Thursday, 8 January 2009, 06:18 CST

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- T-Systems, the business-customer segment of Deutsche Telekom, is expanding its global data center footprint with the addition of a new 34,655-square-foot facility in Tempe, Arizona, bringing the number of T-Systems-managed data centers to more than 80 worldwide and nine in North America.

The data center will be used to service the information technology needs of a major commercial wireless broadband network provider.

To deliver this solution, T-Systems has entered into a collaborative relationship with Digital Realty Trust Inc., a San Francisco-based owner and manager of corporate and Internet turn-key data centers.

"Our partnership with Digital Reality Trust complements our North American data center strategy and enables T-Systems to focus on our core competency of providing a standardized and efficient IT infrastructure service for our clients," said Heike Auerbach, CFO, T-Systems North America. "This strategy and global data center capacity, combined with our global telecommunications footprint delivers complete Information and Communications Technology (ICT) that enables our clients to focus on their core businesses.

"The collaborative arrangement with Digital Realty Trust delivers agility and flexibility for both T-Systems and our client because it eliminates the need to invest speculative capital into excess data center capacity, and it positions us to rapidly meet the specific capacity and geography requirements of our prospective clients," Auerbach added.

Digital Realty Trust's move-in ready space also dramatically reduces the time it takes to get the data center up and running. The turn-key data center is also highly energy efficient -- it leverages the best practices and award-winning green data center programs that reduce operating costs.

"We are pleased that T-Systems selected us as its data center facility partner," said Michael Foust, CEO of Digital Realty Trust. "Our unique approach enables companies like T-Systems to respond rapidly to market opportunities by dramatically reducing the time to market for new data centers. Our customers reduce financial risk by partnering with a company with world-class engineering and an operations team."

About T-Systems

With a global infrastructure of computer centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communications technology (ICT) for multinational corporations and public institutions. On this basis, Deutsche Telekom's corporate-customer unit offers integrated solutions for the connected future of business and society. Some 46,000 employees combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add noticeable value to their customers' core business all over the world. T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 12 billion in the 2007 financial year.

About Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns, acquires, redevelops, develops and manages technology-related real estate. The Company is focused on providing Turn-Key Datacenter(TM) and Powered Base Building(TM) data center solutions for domestic and international tenants across a variety of industry verticals ranging from information technology and internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services.

SOURCE T-Systems

Source: PR Newswire

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