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A Data Centre Subsidiary of MainOne, MainData Nigeria Ltd. (MDXi) on Tuesday said it would announce the local offering of Microsoft’s Azure Stack to its customers as part of its ‘Managed Cloud Services’.
Gbenga Adegbiji, Managing Director, MDXi said that the Stack platform provided in partnership with Microsoft and HPE would be unveiled on Feb. 21 at Nerds Unite, MainOne’s 5th annual gathering of customers, partners and technology professionals.
Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud computing software solution developed by Microsoft based on the company’s Azure cloud platform.
Azure Stack is designed to help organisations deliver Azure services from their own data centre.
Adegbiji said that the introduction of the local offering of Microsoft’s Azure Stack services, MDXi, would be the first data centre in Nigeria to offer the Cloud service commercially to customers in Nigeria.
He said that this latest Cloud offering by MDXi into the Nigerian market, would reinforce MainOne’s leadership position in the Cloud market, enabling the company to offer its customers a broader suite of cloud solutions.
The managing director said that it would range from managed Cloud deployment on public and private Cloud services in the MDXi data centre, to management of offshore deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure.
According to him, it would be in addition to Express Route services that enable secure, reliable communications to cloud services offshore.
“MDXi has been in the business of providing Cloud services to its enterprise customers for over 5 years with skilled and certified engineers.
”We are the data centre of choice for enterprise looking to host data locally in the Cloud.
”With the introduction of the Azure Stack solution, we further demonstrate our ability to invest in Cloud infrastructure to meet the changing and growing requirements of our customers in Nigeria and indeed across West Africa.
”The partnership with Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deploy this platform demonstrates a concerted effort toward accomplishing the vision of being West Africa’s leading communications solution provider, delivering world-class quality services to our local customers.” Adegbiji said in a statement.
He said that the launch would showcase some of the benefits of MDXi’s Azure Stack in processing in-country data and applications, thereby reducing customer latency below 10 minutes which would result to a better experience for end users.
According to him, the demonstration would also showcase cost effective data storage solutions that allow businesses meet all their data sovereignty requirements with locally-domiciled infrastructure.
Adegbiji said that the new Cloud services platform would offer enterprises and businesses the choice of a scalable, flexible computing platform to enable them to migrate critical applications from legacy technology to modernised and more efficient technology without having to go offshore.
Nerds Unite, MainOne’s flagship event of the year, brings together Information Technology professionals and decision makers to connect, discover opportunities, collaborate and learn new techniques and breakthrough trends in the global Information Technology (IT) industry.
This year’s edition will feature presentations and panel discussions on Cloud adoption, Cloud migration and all things Cloud, with global leaders across West Africa, making it the perfect platform for MDXi to unveil its new Cloud services.
MDXi builds and operates Tier III data centre campuses across West Africa to meet the rapidly-expanding global demand for certified data centre facilities.
Its Tier III data centre located in Lagos is the largest purpose-built commercial data centre in West Africa, designed with a strong focus on high availability, security and open access connectivity.
Its facilities have operated with 100 per cent uptime since inception.