The latest awards saw Rack Centre going
home with the prize of the ‘IT Infrastructure Provider of the Year (Data
Centre)’ category, and the second year running, winner of the ‘ICT
Infrastructure Provider of the Year’.
ITRealms also reports that the Managing Director, Rack Centre, Mr
Ayotunde Coker in 2016 won the ICT Personality of the Year and delivered the
year’s Distinguished Lecture on the subject “Data Centre as Kiln of
Industrialisation and Transformation”.
The Beacon of ICT award recognises
organisation and individual contribution to the development of ICT in Nigeria,
is an annual event organised by Nigeria’s Communications Week, the country’s
leading and respected information and communication technology news medium.
According to Communications Week, in
2017 awards said Rack Centre vote was a testament to its “talents, innovations,
contributions and commitment to the growth of the ICT not only in Nigeria but
in Africa and a demonstration of the recognition of hard work, sincerity and
dedication towards the development of Data Centre industry and ICT
infrastructure in Africa.’’
Reacting to the development, Mr Coker, expressed
Rack Centre delight to have been selected as finalist by the judges, and to
have then been voted by the public and IT community for such recognition and
prestigious awards.
“We are grateful and humbled. We are doing our best to bring world class
infrastructure to underpin technology developments in Nigeria and the African
continent,” he said.
ITRealms recalls that Rack Centre, is the state-of-the-art, Tier III certified
carrier neutral datacentre offering IT colocation and Cloud services. It is the most connected Tier III certified
and carrier neutral data centre in Africa with all major Telco’s, carriers and
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country connected in situ and direct
connection to all undersea cables serving the Atlantic Coast of Africa. Its Cloud on Ground services
offers a locally hosted cloud heterogenous marketplace.
Colocating within Rack
Centre allows companies to avoid fixed infrastructure investments and to leave
the growing complexity of managing power and environmental issues to
specialists, while enjoying unrivalled reliability and quality. Tier III certification by Uptime Institute,
the global body is the stamp of certified quality and reliability.
Nonye Dom/GEE
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