90% Data Centers in Nigeria Need Optimization- Eaton

Technology experts at Eaton have estimated that about 90% of data centre infrastructure operating in Nigeria, both at the public and the private sectors, need optimization.

The experts who were speaking at one-day Eaton Data Centre infrastructure workshop‎ for IT journalists in Lagos, observed that reliability of data centers and ‎security ‎are top priorities for organizations.

Deon Ferreira; Data Centre Segment Leader, Eaton Electrical Sector, described ‎a data center as all important facility that centralizes an organization’s IT operations and equipment, and where it stores, manages, and disseminates its data.

Data centers house a network’s most critical systems and are vital to the continuity of daily operations.

Nigeria is however a destination of most pre-fabricating or pre-packaging data center infrastructure assembled at remote factories, he said. 

He said that storage network infrastructure in financial institutions could be improved upon or meet the volume of data they generate saying the same for the telecommunication industry, Oil and Gas and other sectors to country’s economy.

Ferreira who reckoned that what Nigeria really need is more premium data center infrastructure said that the volume of data being generated in the country is way beyond the essential or superior data center infrastructure in use in most companies.

Data center architectures and requirements can differ significantly.
For example, a data center built for a cloud service provider like Amazon EC2 satisfies significantly different facility, infrastructural, and security requirements than a completely private data center, such as one built for the Pentagon that is dedicated to securely maintaining classified data.

Regardless of classification, according to Ferreira,  an effective data center operation is achieved through a balanced investment in the facility and equipment housed which really need to be improved upon here in Nigeria.

He said; “What Nigeria really need is more data centers, the volume of data that is being generated in this country is increasing on daily basis, so a premium data center with Eaton expertise is what is needed.

"A handful of vendors have packaged a whole data center in a pre-fabricated module or container. Some have done so just with the electrical equipment or with cooling gear – systems that would otherwise take longer to ship to the site and assemble piece by piece.”

Also, ‎‎Mr Charlse Iyo‎, regional sales manager, West Africa, Eaton Electrical Sector, "Enterprises Plan to Spend More on Data Center’ is missing in most cooperate organization reckoning that without that the bane of cost for a standard infrastructure require real time planning and investment".

According to Iyo there is guarantee on Return on Investment (RoI) as promising savings of $50,000 to $75,000 per UPS modules via lower contracting costs and materials.

He said with the presence of Eaton in Nigeria organizations with data center infrastructure are guaranteed 100% safety and security.

“Eaton is data center power and cooling equipment vendors with pre-fabricated, pre-integrated electrical infrastructure solutions for mission critical facilities .They come in three configuration options: a pre-tested package that includes UPS, switchgear, static switches, controls, and monitoring; a package of UPS, switchboard, batteries, and interconnections that comes on single skid; and a shipping container that includes UPS, switchgear, batteries, HVAC, and fire safety equipment.”

“The UPS used in all three packages is Eaton’s Power Xpert 9395. The packages can be installed up to three times faster than the traditional piece-by-piece approach. “

“These solutions allow early adopters, such as multi-tenant data centers, government sites, and hyper-scale facilities, to advance to the next level of prefabricated deployment," he said.