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- 15 May 2018
Rack Centre Bags ICT Infrastructure, Data Centre Provider Awards
Rack Centre, Africa’s premium data centre provider has won two awards at the 2018 Beacon of ICT Awards. It won the “ICT Infrastructure Provider of the Year” and ICT Infrastructure Provider of the…
- 11 Feb 2024
Expert Tasks Govt to Create Incentives to Promote Data Centres, Digital Infrastructure Deployment in Nigeria
To prioritize the sustainability of the data centres industry in Nigeria, the federal government has been tasked to create incentives to promote data centres and expand the deployment of digital…
- 27 Mar 2019
Data Centre Infrastructure is Strategic to Developing Economy - Coker
Ayotunde Coker is the managing director of Rack Centre a data centre operator. He spoke to Chike Onwuegbuchi on the importance of data centre infrastructure to a developing economy such as Nigeria.…
- 19 Dec 2021
Rack Centre LGS1 Data Centre Expansion Wins MEA Data Centre Development Award
Rack Centre, the leading carrier neutral data centre colocation provider in West Africa, has emerged the winner at the Data Centre Dynamics (DCD) global award, the first for the Middle East and…
- 11 Feb 2026
Open Access Data Centres Acquires Seven NTT Data Centres Across South Africa
Open Access Data Centres (OADC), Africa’s fastest-growing data centre company, has officially announced the strategic acquisition of seven NTT data centres across South Africa. The acquisition, which…
- 5 Nov 2012
Kits Technologies to Reduce Data Centre Outages, Causes
KITS Technologies Limited, a leading Data Centre Infrastructure Services Provider is to reduce data centre outages and its causes to improve data centre efficiency. To this end, the company will hold…
- 22 Feb 2018
Medallion Expands Interconnect, Data Centre infrastructure to Enugu, Others
Medallion Communications Limited said it is expanding its Interconnect and Data Centre infrastructure to Enugu, Port-Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano and Asaba in an effort to accommodate more service…
- 7 Jun 2022
Africa Data Centres Builds 30MW Data Centre Facility in Expansion Drive to Ghana
Africa Data Centres, part of the Cassava Technologies Group, a pan-African technology group, has announced that it is building a 30MW data centre facility in Accra, Ghana. The new facility will lay…
- 29 Nov 2021
Africa Data Centres Unveils New 10MW Data Centre in Lagos
Africa Data Centres, the largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities on the continent, is pleased to announce that it has officially opened its new 10MW data…
- 1 Sept 2013
Capitoline advocates Data Centre Security Management Compliance for the Financial Sector
Capitoline LLP, an independent specialist engineering and management consultancy, and KITS Technologiesa data Centre Infrastructure service provider recently held a Data Centre Seminar in Nigeria.…
- 30 Apr 2018
MainOne Data Centre, MDXI Wins Most Connected Nigerian Data Centre Award
Premier data centre operator in West Africa, MDXI (a MainOne Company) won the most Connected Tier III Data Centre award at the Beacon of ICT Awards (BoICT), organized by the Nigerian Communications…
- 5 Sept 2021
Africa Data Centres Plans to Build Large Hyperscale Data Centres Across the Continent
Africa’s leading carrier-neutral co-location data centre provider, Africa Data Centres has announced plans to build large hyperscale data centres throughout Africa, including the North African…
- 19 Jun 2022
Rack Centre Becomes the First IFC EDGE Certified Data Centre in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Rack Centre, an Actis majority owned data centre and the leading carrier-neutral Tier III data centre in West Africa, has become the first International Finance Corporation (IFC) EDGE certified data…
- 15 Mar 2023
Africa Data Centres, TechAccess Partner to Deploy DCIM Solution Across its Facilities
Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies a pan-African technology group, is pleased to announce it has partnered with TechAccess, to implement a Data Centre Infrastructure Management…
- 16 Jun 2022
Rack Centre now First IFC EDGE Certified Data Centre in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Rack Centre, an Actis majority owned data centre and the leading carrier-neutral Tier III data centre in West Africa, has become the first International Finance Corporation (IFC) EDGE certified data…
- 18 Feb 2026
Africa’s Active Data Centres' Capacity on Back Foot, Despite Investment Push
With its meteoric rise in data centre development and it accounting for 20% of the global population, Africa still only has 0.6% of global data centre capacity. This is based on the 2026 Economic…
- 12 Dec 2019
Rack Centre Wins Data Centre Operations Team of the Year @ DCD Awards in London
Rack Centre, the first and only truly carrier neutral state-of-the-art Tier III Constructed Facility Certified data centre in Africa offering colocation, content distribution, interconnect and Cloud…
- 20 Jun 2018
Rack Centre, Data Centre Provider Recognized as Winner @ Datacloud Awards
Rack Centre, Africa’s Premium Data Centre and the leading carrier neutral Tier III constructed facility certified colocation data centre provider has been honoured with the prestigious Datacloud…
- 7 May 2019
Rack Centre Inducted into Data Centre Hall of Fame
Rack Centre, Africa’s Premium Data Centre has been inducted into the Beacon of ICT Awards Hall of Fame, the annual award ceremony held in Nigeria by Communications Media Limited, Publishers of…
- 4 Oct 2013
KITS to Address Critical Data Centre Challenges
Taofeek Okoya, director of Business and Strategy, KITS Technologies a Data Centre Infrastructure Service Provider, said the company plans to ensure that Data Centre landscape in Nigeria takes a giant…
- 28 Feb 2019
Medallion Democratizes Data Centre Service in Nigeria
Engr. Ike Nnamani, managing director, Medallion Communications, a data centre operator in the country has attributed the emergence of his company’s data centre as the most connected data centre in…
- 18 May 2023
Africa Data Centres to Start Construction on a New Facility in Accra
Africa Data Centres, the largest network of interconnected, carrier-and cloud-neutral data centre facilities on the continent, announces that it will shortly start construction on its newly acquired…
- 20 May 2024
Open Access Data Centres Recognize Sustainability as Key in its Operations - Aduloju
Mr Olatunji Aduloju is Operations Manager at Open Access Data Centres (OADC) on Sustainability in Data Centre Operations. He has an enviable career in operations of data centre, and has worked with…
- 10 Nov 2015
Data Centre Dynamics Awards Shortlists Rack Centre in 2 Categories
Rack Centre, the leader in the Nigerian data centre industry has been named finalist in two categories of the Data Centre Dynamics Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Awards for 2015. The…
- 28 Jun 2026
OADC Reaffirms Abundant Capacity in Data Centres in Nigeria to Host Financial Data
Ayotunde Coker, managing director, Open Access Data Centres has reiterated availability of abundant capacity and world-class infrastructure in key data centres in Nigeria. This is coming against the…
- 20 Mar 2017
Banks at Crossroads over CBN Deadline on Data Centre
Money deposit banks are at crossroads over whether to fully outsource their data centre operations or get theirs certified to the required standard in view of security and control concerns as they…
- 15 Jun 2022
Africa Data Centres Expands South African Footprint with New 20MW Facility in Cape Town
Africa Data Centres, part of the Cassava Technologies Group, a pan-African technology group, is pleased to announce building a second data centre in Cape Town, South Africa. The new 20MW facility…
- 16 Oct 2023
Medallion Rebrands to Digital Realty, Opens New Data Centre in Lagos
Medallion Data Centres Limited, Nigeria’s premier carrier neutral data centre operator, on Monday announced the opening of its second data centre (“LOS2”) in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. The…
- 1 Apr 2026
Alleged Drone Strikes on AWS Data Centres Raise Concerns Over Cloud Infrastructure Security
Reports circulating in tech and security circles have alleged that drone strikes linked to Iran targeted data centre infrastructure belonging to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the United Arab Emirates…
- 13 Apr 2016
FG Moves to Localise Data Hosting, Urges Data Centres to Improve Capacity
Barrister Adebayo Shittu, minister of Communication has said that once Nigeria data centres has enough capacity locally to handle data generated within the country, the Nigerian government will put a…