DUBLIN, January 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty Trust, Inc. , a global wholesale data centre provider, has signed a 10-year Turn-Key Datacentre(R) lease agreement with Man Group plc ("Man"), an alternative investment management business. The lease, which represents over half a megawatt of IT load, provides Man Group with a secure, reliable and cost effective facility to support its critical business applications through a disaster recovery site.

"We were impressed by Digital Realty Trust's track record of providing its customers with secure and reliable data centre facilities," said Ken Clunie, Director, Building Projects at Man. "It was clear that they maintain consistently high operating standards and have an extensive history in large scale data centre development projects. Reliable facilities are critical to our business model."

Adam Levine, European Vice President, at Digital Realty Trust, said: "By selecting our Turn-Key Datacentre(R), Man will benefit from our advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features that ensure uptime reliability as well as operating efficiencies. Digital Realty Trust's guaranteed delivery of the Turn-Key Datacentre facility on time and on budget takes a significant amount of financial risk and uncertainty out of the process for our customers. Mitigating this risk has become essential to organisations looking to expand their infrastructure in the current economy."