State of the Nigeria Data Centre Sector
Since the Nigerian telecoms market liberalization in 1999, the country’s connectivity and IT markets have grown in leaps and bounds. Now penetration is about 111% and there continues to be increased investment in the latest Mobile to fixed broadband infrastructure.
Micro Edge Datacentres Saving Lives
Once upon a time, post-independence, IBM - American multinational technology company must have had the foresight to build a Silicon Valley in Nigeria, a country with a relatively high population density and heart of the African economy. The IBM Education Centre was then established at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
African Students Train at I.B.M. Centre in Ibadan, Aug. 15, 1964
This is a group of 50 young Africans are now training in Nigeria to be the vanguard of the computer age on that continent. The men, from seven African nations, are the first students at the IBM World Trade Corporation's African Education Centre at the University of Ibadan.
How Is Your Datacentre Environment Fairing In This Corona Pandemic?
The institution of the internet infrastructure services together with sprawling Datacentre has proven to be invaluable and an essential element in nowadays government activities, business affairs and human interactions.
In most parts of the world, the lockdown due to the pandemic has seen increased reliance on broadband services for Gaming and movie downloads e.g. via Netflix.
Visit to Rack Centre Nigeria
My adventures into mighty IT infrastructures has seen me working in top UK Data centers such as in Global Switch, SAVVIS and Equinix. After years of servicing and managing Data halls of these greats - I thought I had seen it all, until my recent visit to Rack Space Nigeria.
I must share my brief encounter of an impressive Data Center environment in Nigeria – Rack Center.
Build a cloud redundancy strategy using multiple providers
No cloud platform is perfect; there is always a risk of an outage or data loss. Consider a multi-cloud model to ensure redundancy and backup.
Synopsis
While providers and analysts define it differently, multi-cloud computing generally refers to the use of multiple providers for public cloud infrastructure, such as pairing Google Compute Engine and Amazon Web Services or pairing Microsoft and IBM.
There are different reasons to use a multi-cloud model, although most relate to platform requirements. For example, organizations might meet their big data needs with Google, but prefer the compute and storage options on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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