INTELLIGENT BRANDS // DATA CENTRES
MainOne leads West Africa
data centre developments
of ICT services and mobile broadband,
the migration towards a digital
economy, with Internet underpinning
a lot of services across the region –
better adoption of e-Governance,
e-Health and e-Commerce initiatives
and businesses looking to host
their growing digital information
locally. According to him, MainOne
is anticipating the growing demand
and has started building its second
Tier III+ data centre in Sagamu, a
blooming industrial cluster in South
West Nigeria.
Funke Opeke, founder and CEO of MainOne
W
est Africa’s premier connectivity and data centre solutions company,
MainOne has reinforced its commitment to building out West Africa’s
data centre capacity at the Data Center Africa Summit, which took
place this June at the DataCloud Europe 2017 conference in Monaco.
During the event, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Funke Opeke was
nominated as one of 50 top influencers transforming the data centre and cloud
landscape in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Enterprise Powered by Excel The DataCloud Europe conference, which has attracted over 1,800 data centre
and cloud executives from more than 60 countries as well as over 90 exhibiting
companies, is the foremost networking event for data centre players in EMEA.
Where security, performance and reliability are paramount. Choose Excel. During the conference, Gbenga Adegbiji, General Manager of MainOne’s MDXi
data centres, joined an expert panel on the Africa Data Centre Leadership to
discuss strategies for achieving improved data centre and cloud penetration
across the continent. The panel started with a review of the challenges of data
centres across the continent in comparison to other markets, highlighting low
demand as the biggest constraint, due to offshore data hosting of content.
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With improved access to Internet services on the continent, leading content
providers are finding that the high latency experienced with serving Africa from
offshore does not effectively engage the market and have started establishing
beachheads for content in data centres on the continent.
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In his comments, Adegbiji asserted that despite the limitations, the
opportunities for data centre growth are enormous given the upsurge in the use
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Adegbiji also highlighted MainOne’s
efforts at improving transit traffic in
Nigeria with its partnership with the
Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria
(IXPN), and its new interconnection
service OpenConnect, which
facilitates increased interconnection,
collaboration and peering for telecom
operators, ISPs and content providers
within its data centre. According to
him, this service would enhance local
Internet performance, lower costs
and minimise traffic bottlenecks for
Internet traffic in Nigeria.
Also on the Africa Data Centre
Leadership Panel was the President,
Schneider Electric, Francophone
Africa, Paul-François Cattier;
Managing Director, BCX Nigeria, Dr
Ayo Adegboye; Managing Director,
Rack Centre Nigeria, Ayotunde Coker;
Founder and CEO, icolo.io, Ranjith
Cherickel and Director General Group,
Orange Africa, Fatoumata Dieng.
In its 6+ years of operation, MainOne
has established a strong reputation as
the preferred provider of connectivity
and data centre solutions in West
Africa. The company owns and
operates MDXi data centre; the only
Tier III certified colocation facility in
West Africa with combined PCI DSS,
ISO 27001 and 9001 certifications. ¡
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