Digital Realty Trust Inc. announced an organizational change designed to leverage and develop the company's management resources. Jim Smith, Digital Realty's Chief Technology Officer and David Schirmacher, Senior Vice President of Operations, will switch roles effective March 1, 2015. Jim Smith will retain the title of CTO and will lead the Portfolio Operations Group, which includes global property operations, technical operations, customer service, security and data center services functions.

David Schirmacher, who currently serves as the company's Senior Vice President of Portfolio Operations, will transition to the role of Senior Vice President of Design & Construction and will be responsible for overseeing data center development, including design and construction. In addition, he will continue to oversee the development and ongoing implementation of EnVision, Digital Realty's data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution.