Oscar Music & Media Selects Interxion’s Content Hub to Host Its Connected Media Platform Services

LONDON 10 March 2011 - INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that it has been selected to host the connected media platform services of digital music company Oscar Music & Media in the Content  Hub of its City of London data centre.

With the digital music industry worth $4.6 billion in 2010 (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) worldwide and further growth expected this year, Oscar Music & Media provides a platform that allows organisations across the ecosystem to manage their metadata and package and deliver millions of music files to this burgeoning sector of the market. These companies vary from developers of bundled music services for ISPs to a music catalogue management business representing 200 record labels worldwide.

Interxion's Content Hubs provide seamless power, space and access to all relevant network service providers that are required for the distribution of content. Connected media platform providers such as Oscar Music can obtain direct access to all necessary distribution networks for the optimised delivery and performance of digital media content to end users, including tier 1 ISPs, Internet Exchanges and CDNs.

Through the selection of Interxion, Oscar Music has been able to develop its own private cloud and take advantage of Interxion's outstanding SLAs, connectivity and redundancy, which offer the ideal environment for the effective aggregation, management and distribution of its on-demand and real-time online content.

Paul Sanders, founder and MD, Oscar Music, commented, "For Oscar Music, core infrastructure and first-class connectivity are of paramount importance. The new world for media businesses is one of connected platforms delivering API access to media and metadata in real time. Interxion's strong record in efficient and reliable service delivery, partnered with the fact it has over 40 carriers in its City of London site and offers a bespoke community for the digital media market makes it an ideal choice to host our connected media platform offering."

Greg McCulloch, Interxion UK MD, commented, "This deal further reflects our growing reputation as one of the UK's leading content distribution hubs for the digital media sector. Fundamental to Oscar Music's needs is performance and reliability, and Interxion's Content Hubs provide the requisite maximum uptime, connectivity and ready-made digital media community that such a latency-sensitive business demands."