PARIS, FRANCE, December 15, 2016 – INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN)a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation data center services in Europe, and DataXion, a data center operator in Tunisia, today announced the signature of an extended partnership, enabling them to offer combined physical hosting services in France and Tunisia.
With the signing of this partnership, the two groups are leveraging the complementary nature of their infrastructures, services and expertise in France and Tunisia to support their customers’ development in these growth markets, and offer dual-site services to their customers. To achieve this, DataXion plans to deploy a point of presence in Interxion’s Marseille data center (MRS1), and Interxion to offer its customers space in DataXion’s data center near Tunis.
Created by Tunisia’s leading private group (Poulina Group Holding), DataXion was inaugurated in May 2016. It is currently the largest neutral, Tier 3+ data center in North Africa.
In France, Interxion has two data center campuses in Paris and Marseille, giving a total of 8 data centers, including the latest, named MRS1, which opened in Marseille in 2014. By combining their expertise, DataXion and Interxion are able to offer their customers dual-site services to ensure business continuity and recovery, should the need arise.
“This partnership with DataXion enables us to offer our customers an expanded hosting offering to Tunisia, while guaranteeing the same levels of operational excellence, and thus support our customers’ development on a booming continent. Bringing together our data center campus in Marseille with DataXion’s near Tunis is a logical step in bringing two cities closer together, and contributes to the digital development of the North-East African region and the southern Mediterranean”, explains Fabrice Coquio, President of Interxion France.
“In a very short space of time, Interxion’s Marseille data center campus has become a prime location, attracting a growing community of international connectivity providers. This partnership represents a real opportunity for DataXion to access this community, as well as Interxion’s 42 data centers in Europe, and thus support our customers’ development projects”, explains Naceur Kchaou, Managing Director of DataXion.
About Interxion
Interxion (NYSE: INXN) is a leading provider of carrier-neutral and cloud-neutral colocation data center services in Europe, with a broad customer base across 42 data centers in 11 European countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centers offer customers extensive security and availability for their mission-critical applications.
With more than 600 connectivity providers, 21 European Internet points of interconnection and most of the major cloud and digital media platforms present throughout its geographical coverage, Interxion has created financial, content, cloud and connectivity hubs that facilitate the activity of growing customer communities of interest. For further information, please visit www.interxion.fr.
About Dataxion
DataXion is a neutral data center operator established in 2012 by the Poulina Group (Tunindex: PGH). Certified to international standards and strategically located close to the capital and telecom operators’ main links, DataXion guarantees a level of service quality and availability that is unique in North Africa. Its design meets the latest international standards, enabling all local and international customers to operate their IT infrastructures under the best possible conditions of security, confidentiality and performance. The DataCenter’s high-performance connectivity to European capitals marks an important step in the digital rapprochement between Tunisia and Europe. These investments reinforce the PGH Group’s strategy of developing the digital sector, and will accelerate digital cooperation (nearshoring or offshoring) between Tunisia and Europe.
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Interxion France
Vanessa Crosnier, Marketing Director
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DataXion Europe
Richard Czech, Business Development Director
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Email : richard.czech@dataxion.com
DataXion HQ
Naceur Kchaou, General Manager
Tel: +216 98 313 711
Email : naceur.kchaou@dataxion.com
