MainOne, and data centre supplier, Minkels have announced the completion of the second phase of upgrade to West Africa’s largest Tier III+ Data centre company (MDXi).
According to the investment partners, the upgrade further enhances the capacity of MainOne to deliver on its promise of quality services in furtherance of its plans to expand its data centre business, MDXi, into new territories across West Africa.
Specifically, the leading connectivity and data centre solutions provider targets to build new facilities in three new locations including Sagamu, Nigeria; Accra, Ghana and Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire in addition to an ongoing expansion of its Lekki Data Centre in Lagos, Nigeria.
According to MainOne’s network expansion agenda, the company plans to build new data centres in each location and invest in infrastructure projects as part of a push to ramp up technology penetration in the region over the next decade.
Reiterating the company’s commitment to the digital transformation of West Africa, Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Funke Opeke, spoke on the opportunities in the region, noting that ICT infrastructure investments will support rapid technology proliferation.
She explained: “Given the size of its markets and status as home of some of Africa’s biggest economies, West Africa has a vantage opportunity to scale up infrastructure deployment to support digital transformation.
“Targeted investments in the region will bridge the gap in digital infrastructure and address the increasing reliance on data storage”, Opeke added.
Similarly, the Chief Executive Officer of Minkels, Christiaan van Terheijden, also expressed delight on the second phase of the project.
He enthused: “We are very proud to be part of the digital transformation of West Africa. MainOne is a company that knows how to drive Internet use across West Africa through investments in digital infrastructure required to grow the broadband ecosystem in the region. This benefits both inhabitants as well as Internet-enabled business models across the region.”
It would be recalled that MainOne’s data centre subsidiary, MDXi, had built the region’s largest Tier III facility in 2015 and recently commenced the second phase of the project, with additional investments to construct 300 additional racks in its Lekki facility.
Determined to develop a data centre ecosystem spanning facilities across the West African sub-region, the company plans to launch its new Tier III data centre project in Sagamu in 2019, Accra, Ghana in 2019 and Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire in 2020.
MDXi just received its Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF) from the Uptime Institute in addition to the PCI-DSS certification which certifies the Data centre to process payment card information, the SAP Infrastructure Services license which certifies the Data Centre as ideal for running SAP applications and infrastructure, and ISO 27001 and 9001 certifications.
These certifications reflected MDXi’s compliance to globally accepted standards on high availability, commitment towards the security and protection of the information assets of the company and its customers.
The certifications also guarantee assurance of the quality of the Data Centre’s infrastructure and ability to react to disruptions due to unplanned activities
