Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced its gold sponsorship of the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit North America at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, 13-15 September. Presented by Tier1 Research and The 451 Group, the event is the premier forum for executives in the hosting, data centre, CDN and cloud Internet infrastructure sectors.

In addition to sponsoring the event, Interxion's Group Managing Director Anthony Foy will participate in the Q&A panel, "Strategies for Business Model Paradigm Shifts - The Future of Building, Buying or Partnering." The panel will discuss how enterprises are increasingly shifting to OPEX models over CAPEX models and explore whether service providers should do the same. The panel will be moderated by Tier1 Research analysts Jason Schafer and Phil Shih.

"Cloud computing is increasingly having an impact on the hosting and Internet infrastructure, so it's great to participate in events like this where industry leaders can talk openly about the future of the market," said Kevin Dean, Interxion's Chief Marketing Officer. "Through our panel participation, we hope to show how large data centres like ours at Interxion are cloud enablers, providing on-demand scalability of shared computing platforms, higher power density, more cooling and available space across all major European markets."

Corporate leaders, industry visionaries, senior IT architects and financial professionals will attend the Summit to discuss the various opportunities and challenges facing the managed data centre and hosting services industry. Topics will range from power, cooling and partnering to M&A strategies - and from cloud assessment to meeting the ever-increasing expectations of SMB and enterprise customers.

To learn more about the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit, visit:http://www.hsvsummit.com/na/2010