Interxion to sponsor Datacentre World Conference and Expo

Platinum sponsorship of one of the UK's leading events on datacentre management

Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral datacentres, today announced its platinum sponsorship of the annual Datacentre World Conference and Expo event, taking place 24th-25th February, 2009 at the Barbican Exhibition Halls in London. The conference is the UK’s largest datacentre event. 

As an element of its support for the event, Interxion will also be providing two leading industry figures to deliver keynote addresses on the latest challenges facing the sector. Anthony Foy, Interxion Group Managing Director, will be discussing the impact of the credit crunch on European infrastructure hosting strategies. And Lex Coors, Interxion VP Datacentre Technology & Engineering, will outline how organisations can optimise their datacentre efficiency by improving power usage efficiency (PUE) ratios.

"The Datacentre World Conference and Expo provides a vital forum for sharing best practice on current challenges like the credit crunch and emissions management,” said Anthony Foy, Group Managing Director. “By sharing the experience we have gained serving our customers across Europe, we aim to help attendees meet these challenges while improving their application availability and connectivity.”

The conference is free to attend and will cover case studies, technical implementation papers, migration issues and scalability. Over the two days 30 sessions will be presented that will focus on the key topics of interest to professionals planning, managing or hosting a datacentre.