Clear facts have emerged on why Nigerian businesses and corporate citizens longing to host their data aboard should make a U-Turn and consider Nigerian data centres especially MDXI, a subsidiary of MainOne Cable Company.
Addressing a group of publishers and top Nigerian media executives from the Nigeria Information technology Reporters’ Association (NITRA), during a facility tour of the company premises in Lekki, Lagos weekend, the General Manager of the company, Mr. Gbenga Adegbiyi said “Main Data Xchange Internet (MDXI), is West Africa’s largest full scale data center provider offering colocation, wholesale deployments, interconnection and cloud services. MDXI is the gold standard for data center real estate in the region as it develops a data center ecosystem spanning facilities in Lagos, Sagamu, Accra, Cote D’Ivoire and Senegal”.
According to him, the company is currently implementing 2018-2019 expansion plan which is expected to gulp about N2.5bn.
MDXI is the home of West Africa’s biggest internet exchange, IXPN and investment till date is $35 million out of the planned $40 Million.
One of the key advantages of hosting servers at MDXI is that it is only Data center to guarantee 100% power uptime availability as power efficiency is driven by dedicated feed and power transmission line with more than four standby mega power sources.
He said the new investment plan will among other things deliver on record time, additional 300 racks to add up to the existing 300 racks and bring the total rack capacity to 600, the highest in West Africa sub-region.
Giving details on why the centre remains the best, Adegbeji revealed that “MDXI is the best in class infrastructure, built to TIA 942 & Uptime Institute Tier III Standards”
While noting that the centre is the West Africa’s only Tier III facility with PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and 9001 certifications, he disclosed that PCI DSS ensures MDXI is the natural choice for financial institutions who must guarantee secure card infrastructure.
“MDXI is West Africa’s premier resilient, vendor-neutral data center; only data center with direct connections to 4 submarine cables within 10km: ACE, WACS, Glo 1, and MainOne, the parent company.
“With its Data Center and submarine cable, MainOne operates a central hub supporting West Africa’s connectivity, cloud and data center needs even as MDXI is the only content aggregator hosting global OTTs in Nigeria.
Continuing, the managing director averred that “MDXI fully compliant with financial sector 20km distance diversity between primary and secondary DC.
MDXI is West Africa’s Telehouse, with proven competence to interconnect major network, content and financial providers”.
He stressed that collocating in MDXI gives your organisation access to the largest ecosystem of interconnected networks, services and applications in Nigeria. Besides, MDXI customers have direct access to all major telecom carrier and ISP networks in West Africa, with interconnections at multiple peering exchanges (Nigeria, Ghana, Amsterdam, London).
Adegbiyi told journalists that “Apart from being Nigeria’s premier Cloud Services provider and West Africa’s first facility to be certified as an SAP Infrastructure Hosting Partner, currently, MDXI is the only Microsoft Cloud OS Network Partner in Nigeria”.
The centre is the winner of coveted Microsoft Country Manager’s Partners Award and the first choice for cloud solutions and managed data services for businesses with global scale ambitions.
MDXI provides robust cloud solutions, including IaaS and DraaS with hosting to indigenous domain registrars including Whogohost, among others.
