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access to power grids, businesses should also
consider the redundancy of the systems that
data centre operators have put in place.
To ensure stable connectivity and continuous
uptime, businesses should look to data
centres that guarantee minimal downtime,
for instance Tier III colocation facilities.
Built to satisfy redundancy and concurrent
maintainability requirements, Tier III data
centres are designed to ensure a maximum
level of availability.
Selecting a data centre with these
capabilities is particularly critical for
businesses who run high-velocity, high-
availability operations and will help them
to avoid financial losses and reputational
damage during power outages.
Opting for a carrier-neutral, colocation data
centre facility also allows local businesses to
interconnect with other networks, including
those of partners, distributors, government
entities or even competitors for peering. This
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BY BUILDING A
MODERN, STATE-
OF-THE-ART
DATA CENTRE
INFRASTRUCTURE,
AFRICA CAN
BENEFIT NOT
ONLY FROM
IMPROVED DIGITAL
SERVICES, BUT
ALSO SIGNIFICANT
SOCIOECONOMIC
GROWTH.
is particularly important when considering
the emergence of new technologies in Africa,
where businesses must be agile enough to
adapt to a changing environment.
By colocating in a data centre environment
where other partners can readily provide
state-of-the-art services businesses can
gain the IT agility needed to cope with the
demands of Africa’s growing and evolving
digital economy.
When economic growth in the region
is integrated with parallel trends in
digitalisation and content consumption,
data usage and its associated storage
requirements will inevitably continue to rise.
Developing modern, state-of-the-art
local data centre infrastructure is vital to
creating a reliable operating environment
for businesses to deliver increasingly
sophisticated digital services and a key
enabler to facilitate this continued Digital
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