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APPOINTMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Digital Realty, a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, has offi-
cially opened ‘Digital Osaka 1’, its first data center in Japan. The new facility spans approximately 93,000
square feet and provides 7.6 megawatts of IT capacity.

Digital Osaka 1's robust power architecture enables the company to support the data center and colocation require-
ments of global cloud providers in Osaka.

Furthermore, Digital Realty announced the acquisition of an adjacent land parcel for the development of a ‘Digital
Osaka 2’ data center. Upon completion, the Osaka connected campus will support up to 27 megawatts of addition-
al IT capacity.

Japan has become one of the most highly sought-after markets for cloud data center locations, according to a
Canalys report.

Strict data sovereignty laws and high customer demand are some of the factors pushing cloud service providers to
seek data centers in Japan, where personal data is increasingly required to be stored in facilities that are physically
located within the country.

Digital Realty offers a full spectrum of global data center solutions. The company owns and operates 145 proper-
ties encompassing approximately 23 million square feet across 33 global metropolitan areas, enabling customers
to expand from a single cabinet to a multi-megawatt facility as their needs grow, with no change in providers and
no interruption in service. The company's Service Exchange interconnection platform (powered by Megaport),
which launched in November 2016, facilitates direct, private and secure connections, or virtual cross connects, to
multiple cloud service providers - including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure - as
well as telecommunications providers and other Digital Realty customers worldwide. Customers can actively man-
age their virtual cross connects through MarketplacePORTAL, Digital Realty's award-winning online customer plat-
form, and scale the bandwidth of their connections up or down as needed. ◊

Megaport, the leader in global Software
Defined Networking (SDN), announced
that Belle Lajoie, a founding member of
Megaport and previously Executive Vice
President, Asia-Pacific at Megaport, has
been appointed to the position of Chief
Commercial Officer for the Company.

Lajoie has been working in the Internet industry with Megaport founder, Bevan Slattery for ten years, and has pri-
marily focused on delivering large scale sales and operations solutions to peering, data centre, dark fibre infra-
structure, and data services organisations. She has spent her career working as an integral member of leadership
teams at both PIPE Networks and NEXTDC and is an expert at rapidly growing technology organisations from
startup to scale.

Lajoie will be responsible for leading the Company's sales strategy globally, leading global business development,
channel relationships, strategic partnerships and acquisitions, and leading digital and regional marketing strate-
gies aligned with revenue acceleration. She will report directly to Megaport's Chief Executive Officer, Vincent Eng-
lish. Her previous role has been backfilled internally. ◊

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