Businessday, June 19, 2015, by BEN UZOR Ayotunde Coker is the managing director of Rack Centre Limited, Nigeria’s premier tier 3 Data Centre. In this interview with BEN UZOR, he draws attention to the dearth of ICT skills, while calling for the development of IT professional leadership capabilities. Coker however says no advanced economy exist successfully without fundamental

This Day Live, June 18, 2015 Managing Director of Rack Centre, Mr. Ayotunde Coker Managing Director of Rack Centre, a global service provider in data and shared services, Mr. Ayotunde Coker, spoke with journalists on the need for collocation and business outsourcing, among other key industry issues. Emma Okonji was there.  Excerpts: The general elections that

Vanguard, June 17, 2015, by Prince Osuagwu Collocation and shared in-frastructure are practices which have found it difficult to penetrate freely in the Nigerian ICT market. While many companies are sharing infrastructure, a whole lot believe in slugging it out with each other in amassing infrastructure which ordinarily they should have shared from somewhere. While some

Martins, February 4, 2015, by Stanislaus Martins So I finally got to visit the Rack Center datacenter in Lagos, Nigeria this year and below are my views on the facility. This is not intended to be a detailed step by step review of their facility (their website already has a lot of information about their facility) This

Nigeria Communications Week, February 4, 2015, by Bankole Orija Rack Centre and the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) are delighted to announce the establishment of an Internet Exchange Point at Rack Centre’s Tier III, carrier neutral data centre in Lagos. Rack Centre, wholly owned subsidiary of the Jagal Group, is a state-of-the-art, Tier III Certified data

Vanguard, January 21, 2015, by Laju Iren The term ‘data centre’ is not a popular one in the technology vocabulary of the average Nigerian. But for every bank account being maintained, every surveillance video captured, and every piece of data that large organisations need to store securely, the use of data centres is not only ubiquitous but

This Day Live, January 15, 2015 Managing Director, Rack Centre Limited, Mr. Ayotunde Coker, spoke with Emma Okonji on the company’s efforts in developing its data centre operations in order to address growing demands for big data storage and management. Excerpts: There is a growing demand for big data storage and management among organisations. What is