Capgemini Signs Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) Lease Agreement With Digital Realty Trust

Capgemini Signs Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) Lease Agreement With Digital Realty
Trust

DUBLIN and PARIS, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
(NYSE: DLR), the world's largest wholesale datacentre provider, has completed
a Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) lease agreement with Capgemini (www.capgemini.com),
one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and
outsourcing services. Under this agreement, Capgemini will establish a new
datacentre in a Digital Realty Trust property in France during the summer to
support the growth of its datacentre infrastructure.

"We are delighted to be working with Capgemini on this important datacentre
project for its global IT strategy. Our Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) is an ideal
solution for corporate customers such as Capgemini, allowing them to focus on
deploying their IT systems in a timely, cost effective manner with a
datacentre infrastructure partner they can rely on for the long term," said
Bernard Geoghegan, Senior Vice President, International Operations of Digital
Realty Trust.

Over the past two years Capgemini has put much effort into upgrading its
hosting offering in order to provide its clients with maximum resilience and
security levels, optimisation of energy costs, together with a high level
quality of services. Capgemini chose Digital Realty Trust because it
specialises in datacentre facilities, has international operations, and is
financially sound. "By leasing space in its facility, we are able to move
forward immediately with our datacentre plans without the significant capital
investment ordinarily associated with large hosting projects," said Olivier
Herrmann, Capgemini's Deputy Chief Operations Officer, Outsourcing Services.
"We also chose Digital Realty Trust because of the company's proven track
record of supplying reliable solutions to the world's leading companies."

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) facilities provide
state-of-the-art environments for supporting mission critical infrastructure,
with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to
ensure that critical applications are available while optimising energy
efficiency. Digital Realty Trust's Turn-Key Datacentres(SM) are scalable from
hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in
markets throughout North America and Europe. Each Turn-Key Datacentre(SM)
facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and
cooling architecture that has been optimised for green operation. Every
Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) is built using the company's proprietary POD
Architecture(SM) and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for
the power that they use.

About Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

Digital Realty Trust owns, acquires, redevelops, develops and manages
technology-related real estate. The Company is focused on providing Turn-Key
Datacentre(SM) and Powered Base Building(SM) datacentre solutions for domestic
and international tenants across a variety of industry verticals ranging from
information technology and internet enterprises, to manufacturing and
financial services. Digital Realty Trust's 75 properties, excluding one
property held as an investment in an unconsolidated joint venture, contain
applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of
technology industry tenants and corporate enterprise datacentre tenants.
Comprising approximately 1.2 million square metres (13.0 million square feet)
as of April 30, 2009, including approximately 111,000 square metres (1.2
million square feet) of space held for redevelopment, Digital Realty Trust's
portfolio is located in 27 markets throughout Europe and North America. For
additional information, please visit Digital Realty Trust's website at
www.digitalrealtytrust.com.

About Capgemini

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and
outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through
technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities
that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of
working, the Collaborative Business Experience(TM). The Group relies on its
global delivery model called Rightshore(R), which aims to get the right
balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to
create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Present in more than 30
countries, Capgemini reported 2008 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion and
employs over 90,000 people worldwide.

More information is available at www.capgemini.com.

Capgemini Outsourcing Services (OS) draws on the expertise of more than 25,000
employees to manage, innovate and improve the IT systems and business
processes of its clients. Capgemini OS offers a full spectrum of services
including Applications Outsourcing, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Business
Process Outsourcing and Transformational Outsourcing. For more information:
http://www.capgemini.com/services/outsourcing/

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements which are based on
current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ
materially. These risks and uncertainties include the impact of the current
deterioration in the global economy, including the turmoil in the financial
and credit markets; the downturn of local economic conditions in our
geographic markets; decreases in information technology spending, including as
a result of economic slowdowns or recession; adverse economic or real estate
developments in our industry or the industry sectors that we sell to;
decreases in real estate valuations and resulting impairment charges; our
dependence upon significant tenants; bankruptcy or insolvency of one or more
major tenants or a significant number of smaller tenants; defaults on or
non-renewal of leases by tenants; our failure to obtain necessary debt and
equity financing for refinancing current debt obligations, undertaking or
completing redevelopment, completing acquisitions or other purposes; increased
interest rates and operating costs; our failure to repay debt when due or our
breach of covenants or other terms contained in our loan documents; financial
market fluctuations; changes in foreign currency exchange rates; our ability
to manage our growth effectively; difficulty acquiring or operating properties
in foreign jurisdictions; our failure to successfully operate acquired or
redeveloped properties; risks related to joint venture investments, including
as a result of our lack of control of certain of these investments; delays or
unexpected costs in development or redevelopment of properties; decreased
rental rates or increased vacancy rates; increased competition or available
supply of data center space; inability to successfully redevelop and lease new
properties and space held for redevelopment; difficulties in identifying
properties to acquire and completing acquisitions; our inability to acquire
off-market properties; our inability to comply with the rules and regulations
applicable to public companies; our failure to maintain our status as a REIT;
possible adverse changes to tax laws; restrictions on our ability to engage in
certain business activities; environmental uncertainties and risks related to
natural disasters; changes in foreign laws and regulations, including those
related to taxation and real estate ownership and operation; changes in real
estate and zoning laws; and increases in real property tax rates. For a
further list and description of such risks and uncertainties, see the reports
and other filings by the Company with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission, including the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2008. The Company disclaims any intention or
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.

For Additional Information:

A. William Stein
Chief Financial Officer and
Chief Investment Officer
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
+1 (415) 738-6500

Pamela A. Matthews
Investor/Analyst Information
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
+1 (415) 738-6500

Bernard Geoghegan
Senior Vice President
International Operations
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
+353 (1) 245 0650

SOURCE Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

A. William Stein, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer,
+1-415-738-6500, or Pamela A. Matthews, Investor/Analyst Information,
+1-415-738-6500, or Bernard Geoghegan, Senior Vice President, International
Operations, +353 (1) 245 0650, all of Digital Realty Trust, Inc.