Digital Realty Trust (DLR) will raise its quarterly dividend by 6.4 percent to $0.83 per share. This follows a 6.8 percent dividend hike by the data center REIT last year.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. is a data center real estate investment trust (REIT). The company owns and operates data centers located throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. Digital Realty's clients include domestic and international companies of all sizes, ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare and consumer products. Digital Realty became a public company in 2004 and has paid a dividend every year since.