Rack Centre, one of Africa’s top
carrier neutral facilities, is expanding its power capacity to 1.5MW, as the
company moves steadily towards over 10MW of power capacity over multiple locations.
Rack Centre has rapidly grown since
its establishment in 2013 with a capacity of 350kW, which has grown to the
current 750kW as the company grows its service offerings, ensuring reliability
24 hours a day.
Nigeria has had a bad perception with
power outage, but Rack Centre boasts of 100 percent service availability since
the company went live in 2013, a critical success factor for any company
providing carrier neutral data center services.
“We have operated without one second
of downtime since our launch in 2013,” said Ayotunde Coker, Rack Centre Managing
Director.
In addition to African and Nigerian
awards, Rack Centre has received numerous recognitions abroad for its uptime
record and track record of exemplary customer satisfaction, including
recognition at the DCD Awards in the UK, Datacloud Awards in Monaco, and the
Global Carrier Awards at Capacity Europe in London. Furthermore, the company boasts of being the
first commercial company in Sub Saharan Africa to be Tier III Constructed Facility
certified by the Uptime Institute. The MD of Rack Centre was awarded the Africa
Trailblazer Award by the Uptime Institute in 2018.
“Power availability is a key
challenge; however, we also turn that into an advantage. We are power experts
and a unique value proposition to customers who do not have steady power for IT
infrastructure,” Ayotunde added.
Ayotunde also noted that Rack Center
is passionate about lifting startups into complex level businesses through the
company’s partnership and incubation network.
“We are creating the future, so
unlikely people have all the experience we require. In Nigeria, we have fantastic available raw
talent, so it comes down to leadership context to deliver the best of the raw
material which we do at Rack Centre. The
key differentiator is leadership context, vision and delivery excellence, all
of which we focus on at Rack Centre,” Ayotunde noted.
The Rack Centre neutral carrier
ecosystem comprises carriers such as Orange and other international carriers
such as WIOCC and BringCom. Rack Centre has 5 undersea cables servicing the
Atlantic Coast of Africa and the cables are directly connected and can be
accessed through at least 12 different carriers of over 36 carriers resident at
the facility.