Nigeria’s Data Centre Expansion Increases

The Chief Executive Of
ficer, Main one, Funke Opeke has said that data centres would help create the growth of digital economy in the country.
Speaking with journalists last Monday in Lagos during a tour of the company’s $25 million tier 3 data centre which is expected to be completed in Q4 2014, Opeke said there was a rise in online business models.
She said the online business would require a lot of computing power to manage huge volumes of business transactions.
Also speaking the Group Managing Director, Computer Warehouse Group (CWG), Austin Okereke told newsmen that at CWG data centre there were innovative service to Nigeria’s entrepreneur community.
He said his organisation would provide them (entrepreneurs) with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications on the cloud which they would pay for on subscription basis.
According to our source, abundance of data and the attendant rapid growth coupled with global digitalisation were driving data centre projects in Nigeria.
Speaking to newsmen on the development, President, Tech Xact Group Corporation, USA, Mehdi Paryavi said the trend was also taking place in advanced economies were banks, oil and gas and other multinational firms that require high speed and secure digital facilities to operate.
Also, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at FPG Technologies and Solutions Limited, Rex Mafiana revealed that the Central Bank was seeking an effective data storage centre.
He said generally, bank and stockbrokers across the country would be another main drivers for data centres.
The Tide gathered that since 2011, global data centre operators have flocked to the Nigerian market with such names as Google, Micro-Soft, Dell Global among others.
The Tide further gathered that investments into the data centre business are expected to push the country’s 17.6 million Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) on the global stage.
According to sources, even in the midst of the rise in data centre construction, broadband connectivity continue to lag behind.
The race to expand the nation’s IT infrastructure to power the fast grouping dot com online services was providing business activities.