Recognizing Excellence: Our 2025 Global Partner Awards

As the AI revolution transforms the digital infrastructure landscape, partnership has never been more critical. At Digital Realty, we believe progress should be both digital and sustainable, and our partners are instrumental in turning this vision into reality.

Today, we're proud to announce our 2025 Global Partner Award winners - outstanding partnerships that demonstrated exceptional collaboration, innovation, and customer-centricity throughout 2025 in helping enterprises navigate the complex demands of AI-ready infrastructure and Hybrid IT transformation.

Technology Services Distributor (TSD) Agent Partner of the Year: Bridgepointe Technologies

For the third consecutive year, Bridgepointe Technologies has earned recognition as our TSD Agent Partner of the Year. This remarkable achievement reflects Bridgepointe's unwavering commitment to helping clients scale globally with AI-ready infrastructure.

Bridgepointe has been at the forefront of promoting advanced cooling solutions, including liquid cooling technologies that enable the high-density compute capabilities required for next-generation AI applications. Their expertise in High Performance Architectures and the colocation required to support them has helped Digital Realty customers unlock new possibilities in converged and hyper-converged infrastructure, addressing the unique challenges that AI workloads present.

"Bridgepointe's leadership in AI infrastructure is rooted in their deep technical expertise and their leadership’s clear vision for the future," said Jules Johnston, Senior Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances at Digital Realty. "Their focus on innovation, from liquid cooling to high-performance architectures, continues to set them apart."

Growth Agent Partner of the Year: AVANT Communications

AVANT Communications demonstrated outstanding growth and commitment to partnership excellence throughout 2025. Their strategic approach to helping customers modernize IT infrastructure and embrace digital transformation resulted in a meaningful surge in shared success as together we accelerated AI deployment capabilities.

Through close collaboration with Digital Realty, AVANT Communications enabled enterprises to design, architect, and implement versatile technology solutions that scale with business demands while maintaining the agility needed in today's fast-paced digital economy.

Alliance Partner of the Year: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Our partnership with HPE represents a powerful combination of leading-edge technology and world-class data center infrastructure. Throughout 2025, HPE was instrumental in helping our customers create competitive advantages with innovative solutions that combine HPE's cutting-edge hybrid cloud technologies with Digital Realty's robust PlatformDIGITAL® ecosystem.

From HPE GreenLake to advanced private cloud, AI and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, this partnership delivers the flexibility, security, and performance that modern enterprises demand. Together, we're enabling customers to move faster, scale with confidence, and unlock the full potential of their data.

Rising Star Partner of the Year: Lenovo

Lenovo, a global leader in AI infrastructure and deep liquid cooling expertise, strengthened its relationship with Digital Realty and emerged as a strategic alliance partner in 2025. This collaboration brings together Lenovo's proven expertise in HPC, Enterprise AI and advanced cooling innovations with Digital Realty's worldwide data center platform.

"Through our collaboration with Digital Realty's Digital Realty Innovation Lab testing environment, we're enabling organizations to deploy purpose-built, private AI clusters with the flexibility, scalability, and cost predictability they need to experiment continuously and innovate with real-time AI inferencing at speed." — Flynn Maloy, VP of Marketing, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo

AI Technology Partner of the Year: NVIDIA

NVIDIA's leadership in the AI ecosystem continues to reshape the digital infrastructure landscape. Our strategic collaboration with NVIDIA resulted in groundbreaking initiatives throughout 2025, including support for NVIDIA's AI Factory Research Center and the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint for AI Factory Digital Twins.

Together, we're working to advance the implementation of advanced liquid cooling technologies, exploring innovative approaches to power management and energy efficiency, and defining new standards for AI-optimized data center infrastructure. This partnership addresses the fundamental truth that AI workload requirements are different from traditional data center workloads, requiring deep collaboration between infrastructure providers and technology innovators.

Americas Partner of the Year: ePlus Technology

ePlus Technology once again demonstrated exceptional partnership and expertise in 2025, making them a repeat winner, whose recognition highlights their consistent commitment to helping customers understand, architect, and implement successful AI solutions.

The ePlus Technology and Digital Realty partnership equips IT and data science teams with the intelligence they need to make smart AI investments. By pairing ePlus' expansive expertise across cloud, security, collaboration, networking, AI, services, and financing industries with Digital Realty's depth of digital transformation capabilities, we're helping organizations navigate AI adoption at various levels of readiness.

"We're honored to receive this recognition from Digital Realty," said Ken Farber, President of Software, Strategy and Alliances at ePlus. "With organizations being pushed toward AI at various levels of readiness, our priority is to help them navigate the many elements and considerations required to achieve the outcomes they want."

EMEA Partner of the Year: Options IT

Options IT established itself as a trusted partner across the EMEA region in 2025, delivering exceptional customer outcomes and driving innovation in enterprise IT infrastructure within financial services. Their deep regional expertise and commitment to partnership excellence enabled numerous successful deployments across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Through strategic collaboration with Digital Realty, Options IT helps enterprises leverage our extensive data center footprint to deploy faster, connect smarter, and grow with confidence across diverse geographic markets.

APAC Partner of the Year: Zenlayer

For the second consecutive year, Zenlayer has earned recognition as our APAC Partner of the Year. From Vietnam and Indonesia to the Middle East and Africa, Zenlayer's global edge presence complements Digital Realty's extensive data center footprint, empowering enterprises to deploy with speed, reach, and agility.

This partnership is built to scale - not just in footprint, but in strategic alignment. With over 600 combined points of presence, 300 data centers, and deep regional expertise, Zenlayer and Digital Realty enable global enterprises to deploy more quickly and accurately across diverse geographies.

"Zenlayer's global edge presence perfectly complements Digital Realty's extensive global data center footprint," said Jules Johnston. "We see our partnership as built to scale, and we look forward to even more success ahead."

Building the Future Together

The need for AI-ready infrastructure is no longer theoretical - it is urgent. Our 2025 Global Partner Award winners were at the forefront of helping customers move from concept to execution, delivering robust environments capable of handling complex AI models, edge analytics, and real-time data processing.

Whether it's liquid cooling, cloud adjacency, or global interconnectivity, Digital Realty's platform, combined with our trusted partner ecosystem, is enabling customers to tackle the demands of AI, machine learning, and real-time applications with confidence.

"Partners are at the heart of Digital Realty's success," said Colin McLean, Chief Revenue Officer at Digital Realty. "Innovation flourishes when we combine their offerings with the strength of our global platform. Our partners build digital infrastructure that powers meaningful and measurable enterprise value."

Looking Ahead

We are proud of our partners and what we achieved together in 2025, but the real excitement lies ahead. As businesses around the world navigate AI transformation and adjacent projects, Digital Realty's global partner community is ready to help make them a reality.

Collaboration starts here. At Digital Realty, we bring the people, experience, and platform to transform your most complex Hybrid IT challenges into results. Together with our partners, we're building the infrastructure that will power innovation for decades to come.

A heartfelt thank you to all our partners for your collaboration, innovation, and trust. Let's innovate together.

Learn more about how Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL® - together with our global partner ecosystem - is enabling the AI-powered enterprise by exploring our Partner Directory.