Again, Rack Centre Wins IT Infrastructure Provider Award

Rack Centre, Africa’s premium carrier neutral data centre, has for the third consecutive time, won the IT Infrastructure Provider of the Year (Data Centre) category at the Beacon of ICT Awards, held in Lagos at the weekend.

For the third year running, Rack Centre was named the winner of the ‘IT Infrastructure Provider of the Year (Data Centre)’ category, and for the second year running, it was named winner of the ‘ICT Infrastructure Provider of the Year’.

Managing Director, Rack Centre, Mr. Ayotunde Coker, in 2016 won the ICT Personality of the Year and delivered the year’s Distinguished Lecture on the subject “Data Centre as Kiln of Industrialisation and Transformation”.

The Beacon of ICT award, which recognises organisation and individual contributions to the development of ICT in Nigeria, is an annual event organised by Nigeria’s Communications Week.

Organisers of the awards, in one of its citations, said Rack Centre vote was a testament to its “talents, innovations, contributions and commitment to the growth of the ICT not only in Nigeria but in Africa and a demonstration of the recognition of hard work, sincerity and dedication towards the development of Data Centre industry and ICT infrastructure in Africa.’’

While receiving the award, Coker said he was delighted for Rack Centre to have been selected as finalist by the judges, and to have then been voted by the public and the information technology (IT) community for such recognition and prestigious awards. “We are grateful and humbled. We are doing our best to bring world class infrastructure to underpin technology developments in Nigeria and the African continent,” Coker said.

According to him, “Rack Centre is the state-of-the-art, Tier III certified carrier neutral data centre, offering IT colocation and Cloud services. It is the most connected Tier III certified and carrier neutral data centre in Africa with all major Telco’s, carriers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country connected in situ and direct connection to all undersea cables serving the Atlantic Coast of Africa.”

The company’s ‘Cloud on Ground’ services offer a locally hosted cloud heterogenous marketplace. Colocating within Rack Centre allows companies to avoid fixed infrastructure investments and to leave the growing complexity of managing power and environmental issues to specialists, while enjoying unrivalled reliability and quality.