Africa Data Centres (ADC), a business of Cassava Technologies has partnered enterprise cloud services provider, Unitellas, who will be bringing Zadara’s global federated edge service to its new facility in Lagos, Nigeria.
Cassava Technologies is a pan-African technology group.
Unitellas is a Nigerian-based full-stack managed infrastructure-as-a-service provider and distributor of ‘Zadara’ – a renowned global leader of Edge cloud services.
According to the CEO of Africa Data Centres,Tesh Durvasula, “West African enterprises are looking at cloud technology, but it will be vital to build trust to mitigate concerns around data sovereignty, security, and privacy.
“Addressing these issues will be vital if we are to onboard new cloud providers. Enterprises can take advantage of the cost, flexibility and scalability of cloud while local data centres provide the unique ability to control, localise and secure physical access to data.”
Through its ecosystem of partners,the CEO said, customers have access to multiple cloud onramps and connectivity options, noting that data centres and cloud technology provide a platform for effective disaster recovery, cloud migrations and hybrid solutions.
“Increasing the richness of the ecosystem by adding solutions like Zadara through Unitellas, makes our Lagos-based offering even more attractive to West African players,” Durvasula pointed out.
The move into Nigeria follows the announcement in July 2021 when Africa Data Centres added edge cloud services to its Midrand marketplace in South Africa. However, where the Midrand deployment involved service provider, Global Sense, in West Africa, Zadara is distributed through Unitellas.
Africa Data Centres has facilities across Africa’s major regional business and trade hubs and aims to help drive Africa’s digital transformation using that network.
Both multinationals and large African enterprises are being attracted to these growing hubs of cloud-based business operation—all provided in highly connected, physically secure and efficient facilities that are designed, built and operated to the standards demanded by leading global cloud providers, carriers and enterprises.
“Providing local access to world-class cloud technology aligns with our strategy of digitally transforming Africa. The partnership between Africa Data Centres and Unitellas means that West African customers have at their disposal fully-managed IT infrastructure-on-demand, can flexibly scale their solutions as business needs change, simplifying potentially complex IT deployments so that they can focus on their core business.
“We value our continued growing partnership with Zadara through our secure, cloud and carrier-neutral facilities,”Durvasula said.
“With the African data centre market expected to experience a CAGR of 15 per cent over the coming years, the time is now to bring these benefits to the continent,” said, MD and CEO of Unitellas, Smith Osemeke.
”This means enterprises can now take advantage of the cost, flexibility and scalability of the cloud, because having this presence in a local data centre provides the unique ability to control, localise and secure physical access to data, enabling data sovereignty, security and privacy,” Osemeke said.
With this strategic partnership, Osemeke said, major regional businesses and trade hubs are now empowered to drive Africa’s digital transformation using the network of Africa Data centre across Africa.
