Digital Realty Trust, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust, which engages in the provision of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and currently employs 3,936 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2004-11-03. The firm owns, acquires, develops, and operates data centers through its operating partnership subsidiary, Digital Realty Trust, L.P. The firm is focused on providing data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions for domestic and international customers across a variety of industry verticals ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and consumer products. Its portfolio consists of over 308 data centers, of which 121 are located in the United States, 112 are located in Europe, 36 are located in Latin America, 16 are located in Africa, 16 are located in Asia, six are located in Australia and three are located in Canada. Its PlatformDIGITAL is a global data center platform for scaling digital business which enables customers to deploy their critical infrastructure with a global data center provider.