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MDXi Leads Data Centre Providers at Capacity Africa Conference
MDXi, West Africa’s premier Data Center Company, and a MainOne company reinforced its position as the leading data centre provider in the regional market at the just concluded Capacity Africa Conference which held in Kampala, Uganda.
The Capacity Africa conference is the largest networking event in Africa for global carriers and provided the platform for MDXi to showcase to the community, its commitment to enabling a robust digital ecosystem with its investments across the region.
In acknowledgement of its pioneering work, Ms. Funke Opeke, MainOne’s CEO, was recognized with the “People’s Choice Award” for her achievements in expanding data centre facilities and connectivity in the West of Africa at this year’s event.
During the conference, Vremudia Oghene-Ruemu, product manager, MDXi, joined a panel of experienced data centre thought leaders to analyse the growth potential of the African data centre market as well as discuss challenges peculiar to the continent.
The panelists highlighted expensive connectivity and epileptic power supply as significant constraints to the uptake of data centre services and the participation of more operators on the continent.
In his comments, Oghene-Ruemu asserted that despite the limitations in Nigeria, MDXi has continuously innovated to surmount the power and connectivity challenges peculiar to the country.
According to him, “MDXi is the only operator in Nigeria with direct and dedicated connection to the national grid guaranteeing 24/7 Power availability to customers beyond any other in-country data centre provider.
“As internet traffic increases and performance improves, the opportunities for data center growth are enormous given the upsurge in the use of ICT services and a largely young population immersed in content creation and consumption.
“MDXi is well positioned to handle this demand and has expanded its colocation offering to Ghana, while building another Tier III data centre close to the Sagamu- Lagos Interchange off the Lagos-Ibadan expressway” he acquiesced.
Oghene-Ruemu highlighted the role MDXiplays in ensuring open access and carrier neutral connectivity to colocation customers hosted in its Lekki and Accra data centres.
“With a target of 80% of internet traffic exchanged locally by 2020, MDXi’shosting of the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), and its new OpenConnect interconnection service will facilitate increased interconnection, collaboration and peering for telecom operators, ISPs and content providers within its data center.
“This service would enhance local internet performance, lower costs and minimize traffic bottlenecks for Internet traffic in Nigeria and West Africa”, he said.
Since inception, MDXi as a subsidiary of MainOne has established a strong reputation as the preferred provider of data centre and interconnection services in Nigeria. The company owns and operates the Lekki Data Centre; the only Tier III certified colocation facility in West Africa with combined PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications.
The facility has been recognized at several awards since inception and in 2015 received the Customer Value Leadership Award from Frost and Sullivan in recognition of best practice in the Nigerian Data Centre Industry.
MDXi was also a finalist in the 2016 Datacenter Dynamics (DCD) EMEA Internet Data Center category award.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 75 percent of enterprise software engineers will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) code assistants, up from less than 10 percent, currently.
According to a Gartner poll of 598 global respondents conducted in the third quarter of 2023, 63 percent of organisations are now testing, deploying, or have previously implemented AI code assistants.
AI code assistants provide for more capabilities than only code development and completion, notes the research firm.
According to Gartner, the use of AI code assistants can lead to higher work satisfaction and retention, resulting in lower turnover costs.
Philip Walsh, senior principal analyst at Gartner, comments: “Software engineering leaders must determine ROI and build a business case as they scale their rollouts of AI code assistants.
“However, traditional ROI frameworks steer engineering leaders toward metrics centred on cost reduction. This narrow perspective fails to capture the full value of AI code assistants.”
Gartner notes that software engineering leaders must “reframe the ROI conversation from cost reduction to value generations”.
Walsh adds: “Calculating time savings on code generation is a good place to begin building a more robust value story. To convey the full enterprise value story for AI code assistants, software engineering leaders should connect value enablers to impacts, and then analyse the overall return to the organisation.”
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that the planned national ID card will be issued to applicants by their banks.
NIMC said it is working with the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) to deliver the cards to applicants.
“The card will be issued through the applicants’ respective banks in line with existing protocols with the issuance of the Debit/Credit cards,” the agency said at the weekend update on its official X handle.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROPOSED NEW GENERAL MULTIPURPOSE NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD
- The new National ID Card is a single, convenient, and General multipurpose card (GMPC) , eliminating the need for multiple cards—not three.
- The single GMPC has multiple use cases:…
— NIMC (@nimc_ng) April 12, 2024
It said applicants need to request their cards with their NIN “through the self-service online portal, NIMC offices, or their respective banks”.
“The card will be powered by the AFRIGO card scheme, an indigenous scheme powered by NIBSS,” NIMC said.
“The card can be picked up by holders at the designated center or delivered to the applicants at the requested location at an extra cost to be borne by the applicants,” the update read.
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that the new national Identity card, powered by AfriGo Card, is a single card with multiple services.
NIMC made the clarification against the confusion and criticisms that have trailed the AfriGo Card , touted as a National Domestic Card Scheme.
NIMC is launching the AfriGo Card, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System (NIBSS), and has had appointed SecureID, a Lagos headquartered company to manufacture the Card Scheme
Making clarification on the card, Kayode Adegoke, head of Corporate Communications of the NIMC, said the General multipurpose card (GMPC) will eliminate the need for multiple cards.
“The new National ID Card is a single, convenient, and General multi-purpose card (GMPC), eliminating the need for multiple cards—not three.
“The single GMPC has multiple use cases: Payments/Financial, Government intervention/services, travel, etc.
“The National Identity Management Commission is working with the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System to deliver the payment and financial use cases.
“The card will be powered by the AFRIGO card scheme, an indigenous scheme powered by NIBSS. Applicants for the card will have to request with their NIN through the self-service online portal, NIMC offices, or their respective banks.
“The card will be issued through the applicants’ respective banks, in line with existing protocols with the issuance of the Debit/Credit cards.
“The card can be picked up by holders at the designated centre or delivered to the applicants at the requested location at an extra cost to be borne by the applicants,” he said.
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