Glo to build Nigeria’s biggest data centre

COMPUTING

By BiztechAfrica - June 27, 2013, 6:47 a.m.

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Telecoms giant and Nigeria’s National Carrier, Globacom has set up a state- of-the-art Internet Data Centres in Lagos to provide co-location, disaster recovery and dedicated hosting services to its clients all over the country.
At the same time the company is expanding its existing data management platform by planning to build another world class facility that it says will be “Nigeria’s largest Iconic Data Centre”, providing Tier 3 and Tier 4 enterprise data services at Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory.
The new data centre will provide network based services, applications, equipment and cloud services in a highly safe secure and backed up environment.
According to Globacom’s Corporate Chief Information Officer (Information Systems), Cesar Camara, most of the websites and servers of various Nigerian organisations are hosted with established markets, such as the UK and USA, due to unreliable power supply and other deficiencies in the local system.
“This is why Globacom is stepping in to become one of the top players in the Managed Services Industry across Nigeria and West Africa. We do this by leveraging our existing telecoms infrastructure, Glo1 Submarine cable, reliable power supply network, experienced manpower and experience in building state-of-the-art technologies for our existing voice and data telephony  services,” he told journalists while conducting them round its Data Centre in Lagos.
Data Centres, especially the Tier 3 and Tier 4 categories, which provide the highest level of failure proof, redundant, secure and safe environment, fault tolerance, compartmentalisation and continuous cooling, are highly valued by most organizations because all mission-critical/real-time applications today depend on server uptimes.
“This make our high capacity data centres highly sought after by all categories of businesses  including SMEs, Financial Institutions, Oil and Gas, Educationists, Hospitals to telecoms service provider,” Camara said.
He explained that  Glo’s data centre has achieved 99.99% uptime for all our servers and systems because they are housed in safe, fireproof and secure environment built to international standards with a 24- hour power supply, internet connectivity with data backup capacity and redundancy for all equipment .
The data centre’s products are designed and bundled based on either building and leasing rack space for computing machines or leasing computing space (cloud-based infra or apps stack) and power.