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CIOsynergy announced that Equinix will be a key sponsor of its directIT event on April 5, 2012 at the Hyatt Reunion Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

The world's top businesses rely on Platform Equinix to grow, expand geographic reach, improve application performance and protect their digital assets. Equinix connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high-performance data centers, containing dynamic partner ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. Today, Equinix, Inc. operates International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in 38 markets across 13 countries in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. The ideas on which we were founded remain just as true today in our responsibility to ensure the vitality of an ever-growing, information-driven world. Equinix's mission is to protect, connect and power the digital economy.

directIT Dallas is an exclusive opportunity for leading local CIO and IT executives to network and brainstorm daily hurdles in an unparalleled learning environment under the umbrella of the founder of Travelocity.com, keynote of the event Terry Jones. As chairman of Kayak.com and former CIO of American Airlines, Mr. Jones will share insights from four decades of success including the techniques he's deployed to keep up with today's rapidly changing world.

At directIT, a panel of leading CIO's moderated by Scott Shuster, will share and explore how CIO's can be successful in their role. Mr. Shuster has led virtually every Business Week CEO, CFO, and CIO conference held since the founding of the magazine's events group more than 100 of the world's most prominent gatherings of large company leaders and senior executives.