Unitellas International Limited has partnered Zadara to help manufacturers, service providers, financial institutions and government store their data locally and properly manage their IT infrastructures.
The partnership is targeted at empowering all service providers in Nigeria to meet international standards with regard to data storage infrastructure, service, pricing and security.
Speaking at a press conference held in Lagos recently, Smith Osemeke, managing director and CEO of Unitellas International Limited, said local service providers in Nigeria would not be able to compete with international cloud service providers in terms of infrastructure, pricing, service delivery and management.
This, to him, has caused a lot of companies in Nigeria to patronise international public cloud service providers by storing data from Nigeria in other countries, thereby making it impossible to comply with the Local Content Law.
He said financial service institutions (FSI), manufacturers and other key organisations often invested millions of dollars annually in acquiring and managing IT Infrastructures instead of focusing on their core businesses because they must have an IT department that should build and manage their data storage infrastructure. This service, he said, should be handled by local service providers in Nigeria.
If this sad narrative is not corrected, he said, sensitive data from Nigeria would continue to be stored outside the country, leading to data insecurity. “Unfortunately, Nigeria is one of the countries lacking data security due to the inability of service providers to effectively store and protect data locally,” he said.
Osemeke noted that Unitellas was ready to change this narrative in Nigeria to ensure that data used by organisations were properly protected.
He noted that Unitellas was the official distributor of Zadara solution in Nigeria, adding that the partnership would provide local service providers with infrastructure-as-a-service and enterprise-Storage-as-a-service model which eliminate huge capital expenditure (CapEX) with minimum operational expenditure (OpEX).
“By subscribing to Zadara Data Storage services with Compute Capability, local service providers and MSPs can now offer data storage and compute services with the latest data protection mechanism, competing effectively with renowned public cloud providers in infrastructure, security, pricing, management and service,” he noted.
He further said that Unitellas was willing to migrate all existing data of organisations willing to subscribe to Zadara platform without fee.
“The hardware will be installed in the agency or organisation’s data center to enable them protect the data with storage immutability at no infrastructural cost, but payment is based on actual usage,” he stated.
He said that as the sole distributor of Zadara Storage Solution in the region, Unitellas was willing to implement immutability storage, enterprise sata as-a-service, infrastructure as-a-service to all government agencies and service providers in Nigeria with no infrastructural cost, only pay by consumption.
