Leading provider of pan-African corporate total communication
solutions and telecommunications, Vodacom Business Nigeria (VBN), has
reaffirmed its commitment towards quality service delivery by the introduction
of its dedicated hosting solution in Nigeria.
Marketing Manager, Vodacom Business Nigeria, Ms. Anne
Ihugba, said in a press statement made available to ITRealms Online that the
new entrant is aimed at reducing the hosting challenges faced by corporate
organizations and to guarantee better Information Technology (IT) connectivity
at all fronts.
The dedicated hosting solution, she said, is ideal for
companies that want to eliminate the pain of managing their own server rooms
while also increasing performance, uptime, and server resources.
“Vodacom Business’ Dedicated Hosting solution allows
customers to place their web and enterprise application servers in one of
Vodacom Business’ highly advanced and reliable data centres,” she said,
stressing that this solution provides customers with rack space in a secure,
redundant facility to house their equipment while management of generator
back-up, UPS-protected power, temperature conditioning and all environmental
systems are Vodacom’s responsibility, even as it lets organisations to focus on
their core business activities.
The Managing Director, Vodacom Business Nigeria, Mr. Guy
Clarke was quoted as saying that the company is determined to provide solutions
that suit its customer business requirements perfectly, giving the ability to
confidently roll out virtually any type of website or online application for
business purposes, on customer’s own dedicated servers.
“The dedicated hosting solution allows the customer to
retain full ownership of the hardware and software applications that runs on it
with full management control over the dedicated server. It ensures easy change
management, business continuity and disaster recovery,” he said.
Further, Mr. Clarke highlighted that there are two data
centres to choose from, one in Abuja and one in Lagos.
“The Vodacom Data Centers offer state-of- the- art
facilities that provide world-class technology,
infrastructure and secure
hosting environments,” he said, adding that the data centers are fully managed,
secured and engineered to ensure the highest possible reliability for network
connectivity and uninterrupted power supply.
This, he pointed out ensures a fantastic end user
experience, just as customers have access to highly skilled engineers through
customer service operations centre to attend to any operational issue. Maintaining
that Vodacom has reliable data centre, which guarantees 24 hours engineering
support offering high availability at reduced capital expenditure with
affordable operational costs.
As said by him, the Vodacom Business’ Lodged Hosting
solution consists of two components; physical space with up to 42 units of 4cm
rack space available per rack.
The second component, he said, is the bandwidth where
Vodacom Business provides customers with fixed Dedicated Internet Access (DIA)
and MPLS WANs into the data centres, emphasizing that customers could purchase
bandwidth into the data centre to avoid bottlenecks for their end users.
The Vodacom’s dedicated hosting solution, he asserted, is
stable and ideal for companies with increased hosting requirements that have
invested in IT infrastructure.
He assured that it is also cost effective as customers only
pay for what they have used avoiding wastage and it guarantees short term
return on investment.
Remmy Nweke
ITREALMS Online ... delivering news for ICT4D
1 comment:
It's very true that dedicated hosting provides you a ton of benefits. However, it doesn't come for free. Shared hosting is still way cheaper that dedicated. it support bristol
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