Acclaimed eco-friendly data center in West Africa, the MDXi has voted to
spend the sum of N2.5 billion for the 2018 financial year on infrastructure
development, reports ITRealms.
Adegbiji also declared that MDXi has assumed the West Africa’s largest data center facility offering colocation, wholesale deployments, interconnection and cloud services.
The latest investment inflow, he
said, would facilitate the anticipated expansion of the data centre to 600
racks from its current 300 racks; having invested some $35 million, about N12,635,000,000.00
till date, just as they planned to increase this to $40 million.
He further disclosed plans to create
facilities in Sagamu, another suburb of Lagos, Accra in Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire in
Abdijan as well as in Senegal, as Adegbiji showed the media practitioners some
newly purchased rack cooling system ready for installation.
Currently, he said, MDXi is best in
class infrastructure, built to TIA 942 and Uptime Institute Tier III standards,
thus remain the West Africa’s only Tier III facility with Payment Card
Industry-Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) in addition to the International
Organisation for Standardisation (ISO 27001 and 9001) certifications.
“As a matter of fact, PCI-DSS
ensures MDXi is the natural choice for financial institutions who must
guarantee secure card infrastructure,” he declared, revealing that 90 per cent
of financial institutions in the country are linked and hosted with MDXi.
He insisted that MDXi has been rated
as the West Africa’s premier resilient, vendor-neutral data center; maintaining
that it’s the only data center with direct connections to 4 submarine cables
within 10 kilometer (km) namely the African Coast to Europe (ACE), West Africa
Cable System (WACS), Glo 1, and MainOne.
Reiterating that MDXi is the most
environmentally, friendly data centre in West Africa determined to save
environment approximately 18 tonnes of Carbon dioxide (chemical formula CO 2) and
other dangerous gas emissions per annum, therefore, most Eco-friendly data centre
in Nigeria.
“Policy-friendly and fully aligned
with power sector privatization efforts in Nigeria,” he said.
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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