With only 14 data centres nationwide and growing demand for storage, Citidata Centre plans to build six Tier III edge data centres in Ogun and Lagos state in the next two years.
Edge data centressmall data centres close to users and their deviceshave low capacity and are easy to manage. They offer affordability in a price-sensitive market.
Before joining forces with TopTech Engineering Limited to establish Citidata, Petrodata Management Services managed edge data centres in Lagos and Abuja for oil and gas clients. TopTech Engineering worked with Huawei to provide final fittings for the Chinese companys data centres.
Most data centers are concentrated in Lagos, but demand for colocation or data centre services is rising as the federal government has mandated all ministries and departments to store data locally. State governments are also pushing for colocation, further driving demand.
For Citidata, citing its flagship facility in Ogun statethe first Tier III data centre in that statemakes sense from a disaster recovery or business continuity perspective. A disaster could be any event that disrupts the normal operations of the data centre such as natural disasters, cyberattack, or power outage. If a cyber attack or earthquake for instance affected data centres in Lagos, a company or government entity that backed-up its information in a data centre outside Lagos, has less continuity issues.
