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Shortage of personnel with tech skills big threat to 58% of businesses in Nigeria — Survey

A Nigerian business survey has shown that 58 per cent of IT decision makers in Nigeria view a shortage of personnel with IT skills as one of the main threats to their business. The survey also found that 34 per cent of tech decision makers in Nigeria are planning to move to a new region and 33 per cent into a new country, while 58 per cent view a shortage of personnel with IT skills as one of the…

American Equinix Is Acquiring Nigeria’s MainOne In A $320m Deal

California-based American multinational company Equinix announced that it will be acquiring MainOne, a West African centred data centre and connectivity solutions provider which is present in Nigeria Ghana and Ivory Coast, for $320 million. As with other acquisitions, the deal is subject to the “satisfaction of customary closing conditions including the requisite regulatory approvals” and is…

MDXi hosts webinar to support financial sector

West Africa’s leading commercial data center, MDXi, a subsidiary of MainOne http://mainone.net, has concluded the first in a series of webinars aimed at promoting improved business efficiency and operations based on Cloud solutions.  The webinar themed “Optimising Business Operations with MDXi Cloud Solutions” was targeted at Technical heads of Micro-finance Banks, Pension Fund Administrators,…

MDXi launches local cloud infrastructure in Ghana

Following the successful launch of its Tier III Data Center at Appolonia City, Accra-Ghana, MDXi, a MainOne company and West Africa’s leading provider of data center, colocation, and cloud services has expanded its digital footprint yet again with the launch of Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure platform, MDXi’s Azure Stack at its Appolonia Data Center. For the first time in Ghana, customers…

ナイジェリア発のデータセンターニュース ナイジェリアの通信事業者であるMainOneが、ガーナのアクラ郊外のアポロニア市に新データセンターを開設しました。 2019年に発表された100ラック規模のこの新データセンターは、MainOneの子会社であるMDXiによって運営が行われます。敷地内には、CCTVの動体検知カメラとレーザー光を使った境界線侵入検知システムが設置されています。 MDXiの最高執行責任者であるGbenga Adegbiji氏は次のように述べています。「アポロニア・データセンターは、今日のデジタルインフラに求められる最高水準の施設であり、MainOneブランドにふさわしい最新鋭の施設である。Uptime Tier III認証を受けたこのアポロニア・データセンターの運用は、2015年の開設以来施設稼働率が100%であることが証明されているLekki Data…