Colin McLean, Chief Revenue Officer, Digital Realty

As the Chief Revenue Office at Digital Realty, Colin is responsible for global sales and marketing across the full data center footprint. He focuses on growing and deepening Digital Realty’s focus on customers and partners and the value they can derive by leveraging PlatformDIGITAL^® globally to support the world's largest meeting place for companies, technologies, and data. Colin joined Digital Realty in 2017 and most recently served as Head of Sales in the Americas region. His previous senior leadership roles at Digital Realty include Senior Vice President of Global Accounts and Global Sales Operations and Partnerships and Alliances efforts leader. Before joining Digital Realty, Colin held increasingly senior leadership positions at Siemens and Unify (an Atos company), where he built and led high-performance sales and operations teams. He has over twenty-five years of sales, technology, and operational experience. Colin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wofford College and a master’s degree from Pepperdine University

HPE Greenlake Partnership

Our strategic partnership with HPE Greenlake has gotten off to a noteworthy start! HPE Greenlake and Digital Realty colocation is really resonating in the market, and our customers see the value our partnership brings them. Together, we are building a strong working relationship and common value proposition, each focusing on what we do best.

Key Conference Topics

Over the course of the conference, several themes emerged as top-of-mind subjects. Enterprises are seeing increasing challenges to support their digital transformation and are looking for partners that can deliver tangible outcomes that address their Data Gravity challenges and focus on the customer experience. To achieve these goals, customers need a partner that can deliver these services in a manner that supports their distributed hybrid IT architecture and wide variety of connectivity requirements – including service providers, clouds, and other partners. And, sustainability remains a significant hurdle: IT professionals will need to show measurable sustainable solutions to support corporate sustainability targets.

Data Gravity—the concept that as data collects, it also attracts additional applications, services, and more data but becomes harder to move—can no longer be ignored. Left unchecked, increasing data creation can cause Data Gravity, making it impossible to extract value from it. Today’s organizations need to consider where they place their IT infrastructure to make the most of data-intensive workloads like AI and high-performance computing (HPC).

Consider HPE Greenlake and Digital Realty Colocation

HPE Greenlake with Digital Realty colocation helps meet these challenges. Our combined capabilities allow customers to right-size their deployments and only pay for the services they need. By utilizing our joint services, customers can simplify infrastructure delivery, cut costs, and improve time to market—consistently, anywhere on the globe. Customers benefit from a:

Single invoice
Single customer experience Single solution
And a single management console to manage their hybrid IT infrastructure globally

The Digital Realty Difference

As a truly global strategic partner for HPE Greenlake, we deliver a best-in-class colocation experience across 300+ data centers, 50+ metros, and 27 countries on six continents. We do this on our global data center platform, PlatformDIGITAL, our $28b investment in providing the meeting place for enterprises, service providers, apps, and data. At Digital Realty, we’re constantly innovating; our ServiceFabric® interconnection solution facilitates customers connecting to a wide variety of service providers, with more being added.

We take sustainability seriously and are proud to have a solid heritage of leading the way in sustainability, complementing HPEs Living Progress initiatives. Digital Realty is: The first major data center provider to join the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

One of the top global companies for ESG in 2023
NAREIT Leader for sixth consecutive years
Top 10 in US EPA Green Power partnership

About Digital Realty: Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx^®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 27 countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

HPE Discover 2023: The Cloud-to-Edge Conference