Corporate Chief Information Officer, Information Systems, Mr. Cesar Camara made this disclosure in Lagos and said that Globcom plans to expand existing data management platform to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
DigitalSENSE Business News gathered that the new data centre will provide network based services, applications, equipment and cloud services in a reportedly highly secured with backup environment.
He noted that most of the websites and servers of several Nigerian entities are hosted in the United Kingdom (UK) and United States (US), owing to some market challenges including erratic power supply among others.
This, Camara said, is why Globacom has decided to venture into providing Managed Services in Nigeria and by extension the West Africa region.
“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,” Camara said. He explained that data centres, particularly the Tier 3 and Tier 4 categories, would provide the highest level of failure proof, redundant, secure and safe environment, fault tolerance, compartmentalization and continuous cooling, are highly valued by most organizations because all mission-critical/real-time applications today depend on server uptimes.
According to Camara this makes Glo option of data centres highly sought after by all categories of businesses including small, medium enterprises (SMEs), financial and educational institutions, oil and gas, telecoms service providers.
Glo data centre, he said, has achieved 99.99 per cent uptime for all its servers and 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.
Correspondent/DigitalSENSE Business News
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