Rack Centre, a Tier III provider of highly-rated data services, is creating a local alternative to Nigerian businesses that often seek data and collocation services abroad.
Rack Services offers Nigerian businesses hosting their IT in foreign data centres a reliable local alternative in cloud-based hosting, data storage, disaster recovery and other data and collocation services.
“We are a Nigerian data centre for Nigerian data,” said Ayotunde Coker, managing director, Rack Services, in a statement to BusinessDay.
“With the new pressures on legislation requiring that data concerning Nigerians is kept within the country, devaluation of the naira and difficulty in obtaining international currency, there has never been a better time for Nigerian businesses to repatriate their data back into the country,” Coker said.
“There are technical benefits too; it is built to world-class standards and the first West African data centre to receive Tier III design certification, has the widest choice of telecoms providers in West Africa more than any other Tier III data centres,” he said.
Since the firm was launched in 2013, it has provided 100 percent availability with no outages, providing clients guaranteed levels of uptime, power and service availability.
Colating within Rack Centre allows companies to avoid fixed infrastructure investments and to leave the growing complexity of managing power and environmental issues to specialists.
Rack Centre, located in Oregun, Ikeja, is 30 metres above the sea level. The firm, owned by Jagal, a Nigerian conglomerate holding that operates leading energy businesses and manages a diverse portfolio of investments, has multiple telecoms connectivity service providers such as Airtel, Etisalat, Smile, Broadbased, MTN, MainOne, Glo and Vodacom.
“Rack Centre is a quality, carrier neutral facility that intends to keep raising the bar for data centre providers in Nigeria with a string of firsts,” the MD said.
He said the firm’s energy-efficient data centre cooling technology offers lowest Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.5 vs industry standards of 2.5, stressing that this is achieved through the implementation of an advanced air optimiser, which is a sophisticated mechanical cooling and building management system.
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