Internet Solutions expands Victoria Island Data Centre and Hosting facility: Invests further US1.5 million
The Managing Director of Internet Solutions West Africa, Mr Steve Herridge today announced the expansion of the Data Centre and Hosting Facility housed in the Victoria Island part of Lagos State. This expansion exercise was announced in a statement released to the media and comes on the back of previous revelations made signalling the company’s dedication and commitment to communications infrastructural development in Nigeria.
According to Mr Herridge, growth of the IT data processing environment is multidimensional.
“Factors like business type, customer behaviour, storage, regulatory demands, risk management, and technology innovation all affect how businesses process and store data. Due to developments such as increasing demand, virtualization, and requirements for low latency data connectivity, the data centre has become a dynamic environment which must constantly be re-calibrated to maintain its effectiveness.”
This expansion according to Herridge involves an additional investment of $1.5m (N225 million) in the Victoria Island centre covering areas like Power Generation and upgraded Facilities to cater for the growth of the Data Centre.
He continued that since the arrival of two new submarine cables in Nigeria there has been an explosion of interest from international companies wanting to do business in Nigeria and has facilitated the growth in demand for server and application hosting. “We made the decision to expand the available space in our VI facility on the back of an order received from one of our major banking customers; but this expansion then allows us to cater for the high demand that we now see in the hosting and co-location business in Nigeria, both from businesses currently operating within Nigeria and business looking to enter the market,” Herridge said.
“On the back of this demand we will be launching our new Virtualisation Hosting service to create better utilisation of our space and facilities, allowing customers to take Infrastructure as a Service, to a whole new level,” he added.
The level of capital investment required to bring data centre facilities in Nigeria up to world standards requires that there is a clever balancing act with the long-term plan for how the benefits can be maximised. Historically, Internet Solutions have held a very strong stance on infrastructure sharing and advocates that it can only result in better servicing for all stakeholders. Herridge said: “at Internet Solutions, we believe that Infrastructure sharing of networks and facilities such as Data Centre's will help drive the cost of the services we provide down and assist in the growth of the internet and internet based businesses in Nigeria.”
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