SECOND National Operator, Globacom, has moved into another area of the ICT business spectrum with the establishment of a state of the art internet data centre. The data centre in Lagos has about 20,000 square feet of repository space which the Nigerian business community can make use of.
By the way, a data centre is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, for the storage, management, and dissemination of data and information organized around a particular body of knowledge or pertaining to a particular business. With this development, Glo is poised to compete with world-class providers of similar services.
Conducting newsmen round the facility, Sanjeev Boyana, Globacom’s head of IDC Managed Services said that the facility with its 20,000 square feet of space is part of Glo’s data centre operations in different parts of the country.
A fascinating aspect of the facility, according to Boyana, is the power system, backed up with generators and a diesel stock of no less than 20,000 litres at any given time. In case of mishaps, the data centre itself is backed up at other locations, while the facility itself is protected with a state-of the art fire containment system that is designed to ensure minimal damage to equpment should the undesired happen.
Further, Glo announced plans to expand its existing data management platform by building another data centre in Abuja, the federal capital. The Abuja facility is planned to be Nigeria’s largest and will be iconic, providing Tier 3 and Tier 4 enterprise data services.
The new data centre will provide network-based services, applications, equipment and cloud services in a highly safe and secure environment with backed ups.
According to Globacom’s Corporate Chief Information Officer (Information Systems), Mr. Cesar Camara, most of the websites and servers of various Nigerian organizations are hosted elsewhere across the world in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States of America due to unreliable power supply, insecurity and other challenges.
“This is why Globacom has stepped in to become one of the top players in the Managed Services Industry across Nigeria & West Africa. We are leveraging on 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,” he told journalists while conducting them round the Glo Data Centre in Lagos.
Data Centres, especially the Tier 3 and Tier 4 categories, which 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.
“This make our high capacity Data Centres highly sought after by all categories of businesses including Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs), Financial Institutions, Oil and Gas, Educationists, Hospitals and Telecoms Service Providers,” Camara said.
He explained that Glo’s data centre has achieved 99.99% uptime for all our servers and systems because they are housed in a safe, fireproof and secure environment built to international standards with 24- hour power supply, internet connectivity, data backup capacity and redundancy for all equipment.
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