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The awards demonstrate continued global growth in the Channel and Alliances program

AUSTIN, Texas, JUNE 19, 2023 – Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, has announced the winners of its 2022 Global Channel Partner Awards.

The awards showcase Digital Realty’s recognition of exemplary partnerships with technology and service providers across the globe, with categories including Global Reseller of the Year and Global Breakout Partner of the Year.

“These awards reflect the global nature and significant growth that we have experienced at Digital Realty through the channel over the last few years”, says Dennis Mccatty, VP Sales, Global Channels and Alliances. “We closely partner with industry leaders to provide the right solutions on PlatformDIGITAL® for our shared enterprise customers.”

Digital Realty’s partners support the company in driving innovation with their shared customer environment and enable it to solve solutions across the globe. The winners were chosen according to specific criteria, including revenue, engagement, and activity, all of which showcase the commitment Digital Realty has to its partners.

"All of us at Digital Realty are thrilled to be able to showcase some of the fantastic work our partners do for our shared customers,” says Colin McLean, Chief Revenue Officer, Digital Realty. “Our partners are pivotal to our business, enabling us to deliver the right infrastructure and expertise in the right location across the globe, to support our customers to truly unlock the value of their data.”

Digital Realty’s global footprint and data center platform has enabled it to bring partners and providers together on one platform – forming together a global connected data community to support the evolving hybrid IT needs of customers. The full round-up of winners can be found below.

Award winners:

Global Reseller Partner of the Year – Rackspace Technology

Rackspace Technology is a trusted reseller and core strategic partner. 2022 saw positive interactions and successful collaborations during new customer engagement. Digital Realty’s close working relationship with Rackspace Technology and key OEM relationships has resulted in measurable successes.

Global Channel Partner of the Year – Bridgepointe Technologies

Bridgepointe is a long-standing supporter of Digital Realty’s channel efforts and 2022 saw a record increase in the number of opportunities won through the partnership. This close collaboration comes as a result of team support during customer engagement.

Global Breakout Partner of the Year – Zenlayer

Zenlayer, a hyperconnected cloud provider, has seamlessly integrated into Digital Realty’s ServiceFabric™, empowering businesses to effortlessly reach emerging markets. With their expansive global networking and connectivity solutions, the collaboration with Digital Realty unlocks new growth opportunities for customers.

Partner of the Year: AMER – Telarus

Telarus, a technology solutions brokerage of cloud, cybersecurity, unified communications, mobility/IoT and contact center solutions, has demonstrated exceptional sales growth, and innovation in the past year. Their vision to continue growing the Telarus brand and working collaboratively with Digital Realty has shown true rewards in joint wins.

Partner of the Year: EMEA – Logicalis

Logicalis is a strategic partner that recognized the complementary fit with Digital Realty. As an EMEA partner, Logicalis has delivered multiple new logos and strategic wins in 2022, together with a strong pipeline and projected growth across several sectors.

Breakout Partner of the Year: EMEA – Orange Business Services

Orange Business has been instrumental in creating a growth pipeline, together with an increase in close rate and multiple deals closed with several enterprise new logos landing across the globe.

Partner of the Year: APAC – Aofei Data International

Aofei has worked in close collaboration with Digital Realty to drive new business in Asia Pacific. Aofei’s managed services suite and network capability complements to Digital Realty’s global platform – PlatformDIGITAL® – to continued growth in the region.

Quotes from the award winners:

“Digital Realty enables us to deliver on our commitment to provide customers access to world-class technology and high availability around the globe,” Adrianna Bustamante, VP of Partnerships, Rackspace Technology

Global Reseller Partner of the Year

“We're pleased to be named Digital Realty's Global Channel Partner of the Year. Digital Realty has been an outstanding Bridgepointe partner for years, providing our clients with immense value and support. This recognition is a testament to our Strategists and team's singular focus on client success and on being the nation's leading tech advisory firm,” Brian Miller, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder, Bridgepointe Technologies

Global Channel Partner of the Year

“We are excited to be able to offer more connectivity options to our customers through integration with ServiceFabric™, Now, customers can easily access our private global backbone within Digital Realty’s data centers to get a faster, more reliable, and more secure network instantly,” David Xie, Chief Product Officer, Zenlayer

Global Breakout Partner of the Year

“We are honored and grateful to Digital Realty for recognizing Telarus as the Partner of the Year: America. This award is a testament to our organization’s dedication to fostering a collaborative relationship with the outstanding team at Digital Realty. We look forward to even greater success in the future as we strengthen our partnership,” Richard Murray, CCO, Telarus

Partner of the Year: AMER

“We are honoured to receive this award that speaks to our successful collaboration with Digital Realty. We look forward to our continued partnership to explore the opportunities our complementary platforms bring to our customers, and drive towards a bright future together,” Joanna Xie, Aofei DATA, Vice President and Aofei International CEO

Partner of the Year: APAC