Rack Centre, Africa’s leading carrier neutral Tier III constructed facility and certified collocation data center provider, has been honoured with the prestigious Datacloud Award for regional excellence in the Data Centre Geographical Location category.
The Datacloud Europe Award is globally regarded as the world’s defining accolade for Data center and cloud industry; the awards recognise the leading individuals and companies shaping the global data economy and honour innovation, service excellence, and diversity.
Phillip Low, Chairman of Broadgroup, parent company of Data Economy Magazine and organiser of the award ceremony, said “Globally relevant, the Datacloud Awards have yet again both delighted and surprised reflecting the incredible dynamism, talent and spirit that exists in the industry. “All of this year’s winners are disrupting and innovating in ways we had never imagined and helping to define new era in the IT infrastructure market’’
The Datacloud Europe award winners are selected by independent panel of judges and Rack Centre was selected ahead of three other European finalists due to its success metrics: 100 percent uptime since its launch in 2013, consistently exceeding expectations in customer satisfaction, the first carrier neutral colocation data center provider in Africa to be tier III constructed facility certified by the Uptime Institute and the most connected tier III data center in Africa situated in the excellent geophysical location in Lagos.
Ayotunde Coker, managing director, Rack Centre noted, “we are truly proud of this award to Rack Centre representing Nigeria and West Africa. Last year we were finalist in one category, and this year, finalist in two categories and selected as winner by an august panel of judges. We continue to strive to sustain excellence, world class quality and market leadership in all we do and the recognition at such prestigious global awards is fantastic recognitionfor Nigeria.”
