EX-99.4 11 d374809dex994.htm EX-99.4 EX-99.4

Exhibit 99.4

 

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  John J. Stewart

  Four Embarcadero Center

  Suite 3200

  San Francisco, CA 94111

  

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      The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR
proposals 1. and 2.:
                      
                     For   Against   Abstain    
   
     

1. To approve the issuance of shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc.’s common stock to the security holders of DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. and DuPont Fabros Technology, L.P., pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 8, 2017, as may be amended from time to time, by and among Digital Realty Trust, Inc., Penguins REIT Sub, LLC, Digital Realty Trust, L.P., Penguins OP Sub 2, LLC, Penguins OP Sub, LLC, DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. and DuPont Fabros Technology, L.P.

         
   
     

2. To approve one or more adjournments of the special meeting to another date, time or place, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies in favor of the proposal to approve the issuance of shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc.’s common stock in connection with the mergers.

         
   
     

NOTE: Such other business will be transacted at the meeting as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof.

         
   
      For address change/comments, mark here.                       
      (see reverse for instructions)     Yes     No               
      Please indicate if you plan to attend this meeting                       
     

 

Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon and date. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, officers of a corporation or other entity or in another representative capacity, please give full title as such under signature. Joint owners should each sign personally. All holders must sign.

   
                            
                                      
                                                  
      Signature [PLEASE SIGN WITHIN BOX]   Date            Signature (Joint Owners)   Date        
                                                  


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DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC.

Special Meeting of Stockholders

September 13, 2017 10:30 AM PDT

This proxy is solicited by the Board of Directors

       
   

 

The undersigned, as record holder of the shares of common stock of Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation, described on the reverse side, hereby appoints A. William Stein and Andrew P. Power, and each of them, as Proxies of the undersigned with the full power of substitution, to attend the Special Meeting of Stockholders to be held on Wednesday, September 13, 2017, at 10:30 a.m., local time, at Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 3200, San Francisco, California 94111, and any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof, to cast on behalf of the undersigned all votes that the undersigned is entitled to cast at such meeting and otherwise to represent the undersigned at the meeting with all powers possessed by the undersigned if personally present at the meeting. The undersigned hereby acknowledges receipt of the Notice of the Special Meeting of Stockholders and of the accompanying Proxy Statement, the terms of each of which are hereby incorporated by reference, and revokes any proxy heretofore given with respect to such meeting.

 

THE VOTES ENTITLED TO BE CAST BY THE UNDERSIGNED WILL BE CAST AS INSTRUCTED HEREIN. IF THIS PROXY IS EXECUTED BUT NO INSTRUCTION IS GIVEN, THE VOTES ENTITLED TO BE CAST BY THE UNDERSIGNED WILL BE CAST “FOR” EACH OF PROPOSALS 1 AND 2 AS DESCRIBED IN THE PROXY STATEMENT. THE VOTES ENTITLED TO BE CAST BY THE UNDERSIGNED WILL BE CAST IN THE DISCRETION OF THE PROXY HOLDER ON ANY OTHER MATTER THAT MAY PROPERLY COME BEFORE THE MEETING OR ANY ADJOURNMENT(S) OR POSTPONEMENT(S) THEREOF.

 

            Address change/comments:

   
                     
                   
                   
                     

(If you noted any Address Changes and/or Comments above, please mark corresponding box on the reverse side.)

 

Continued and to be signed on reverse side