Its participation in the inaugural Green Data Centres Conference at the Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, London on 1-2 July 2008 has been announced today by the leading global provider of network-neutral datacentres and Internet exchange services, Equinix Inc.

The Green Data Centres Conference will explore what can, and what is being done to achieve the Green Data Centre. Along with case studies from leading industry professionals, delegates will hear presentations from industry leaders in the development of IT Technology, the latest research and statistics.

Michael Winterson, Equinix's Vice President of Sales and Marketing - Europe, will be participating on the panel discussion 'What techniques are there for measuring the operating efficiency of a data centre?'

For its credentials in the field managing its environmental impact, at the Data Centres Europe Awards ceremony, Equinix was recently awarded the Green Award 2008. By pioneering new strategies that maximise space, minimize operating costs and lessen environmental impact, Equinix, together with customers, is working to address energy consumption in datacentres. Equinix, providing the most efficient datacentre design and infrastructure is the single most significant impact, can have in enabling customers to lower their energy consumption and cool their equipment located within its centres.

Offering premium colocation, traffic exchange and outsourced IT infrastructure solutions, Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data center and interconnection services. For world-class reliability and network diversity, Global enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network service providers look to Equinix Internet Business Exchange (IBX®) centers. Equinix IBX centers serve as critical, core hubs for IP networks and Internet operations worldwide. Equinix, with 39 IBX centers located in 18 strategic markets across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, enables customers to reliably operate their mission-critical infrastructure on a global basis.