MainOne’s new subsidiary MDX-I has called on the major companies in the country to leverage outsourced data centre services to drive down costs and optimise operational efficiency.
In view of this, MDX-I and its parent company, MainOne organised a breakfast seminar targeted at senior level IT managers to discuss strategies for companies that require improved data center capacity. This session revealed valuable global insights from leading IT research company, the International Data Corporation (IDC), and global cloud specialist, EMC2 Corporation, in addition to specialists from MainOne.
Speaking ahead of the seminar, Jumoke Akande, MainOne’s head of marketing, said the recent macro-economic issues in the country and fluctuating global oil prices necessitated the need for companies to use the session to explore how they can utilise cloud and other data centre hosted-business applications to enhanced productivity at reasonable costs.
With leading data experts from IDC and EMC2 Corporation as speakers, the session shed light on global trends in data centres, planning issues to consider, and the case for businesses to colocate in commercial data centres which offer extraordinary levels of performance, as against building in-house data centre facilities from ground up.
Akande said that the high level of attendance at the seminar, themed “Making the Business Case for Data Centre Migration,” revealed the enlightened perspectives that IT managers in Nigeria were adopting to withstand economic pressures and reduce costs.
Ben Uzor
