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NIGERIA’S PREMIUM DATA CENTRE TIER III DESIGN CERTIFIEDSECURE | RELIABLE | SCALABLE

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IT TAKES MILLIONS OF US DOLLARS TO BUILD AN EFFICIENT

DATA CENTRE. A KEY ASSET, BUT

NON-EARNING ASSET.

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO BUILD A DATA CENTRE?

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MANAGE YOUR BUSINESS, NOT A DATA CENTRE. Co-locating within Rack Centre allows companies to avoid fixed infrastructure investments and to leave the growing complexity of managing power and environmental issues to specialists.

We are providing reliable infrastructure to some key international blue chip, corporate organisations.

The technology invested in by Rack Centre will provide clients with guaranteed levels of uptime, power and service availability as standard.

Security, fire monitoring and prevention, power supply and cooling distribution are all governed by a 100% resiliency policy: one passive set of components for every active set to protect valuable data systems.

IF YOUR DATA CENTRE IS DOWN YOUR BUSINESSIS DOWN!

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RELIABILITY

Rack Centre is the first Uptime Institute Tier III design certified data centre in West Africa.

An Uptime Institute certification confirms that a data centre’s design meets reliability requirements desired by high performing enterprises.

You can rest assured that your business will not go down with our 99.982% SLA which comes down to 1.6 hours a year or 8 minutes a month SLA for power and redundant power systems, and resources necessary to meet your business needs.

RACK CENTRE HAS HAD 100% UPTIME SINCE LAUNCH

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCERack Centre’s operations are modeled in full compliance to the international best practice standard for IT Service Management - the ISO20000 Standard.

The Nigerian consumer is increasingly savvy and will not tolerate business failure.

TIER IV

TIER II

TIER I

Enterprise corporations 99.995% 26.3 minutes downtime per year 2n+1 fully redundant 96 hour power outage protection

Large businesses 99.982% uptime 1.6 hours downtime per year n+1 fault tolerant 72 hour power outage protection

Medium-size businesses 99.749% uptime 22 hours downtime per year partial redundancy in power and cooling

Small businesses 99.671% uptime 28.8 hours downtime per year no redundancy

Rack centre is the first Uptime Institute Tier lll design certified

data centre in West Africa

TIER III

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UNCOMPROMISED SECURITYThe data centre facility has world class ten (10)levels of physical security and located on a private estate that is secured by guards, card access, biometric verification and CCTV. This gives your equipment the highest level of physical protection and security.

All access requires biometric verification and is recorded.

Access into the data centre is only possible after pre-authorization and when accompanied by a Rack Centre technician.

GUARANTEED POWERAll cabinets are supplied with two independent power circuits from resilient dual bank of UPSs. Maintenance can be performed at any time on any of the UPSs without service disruption.

Multiple power generators ensure that an interruption does not affect the equipment.

SECURITY & TRUST

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FLEXIBILITY AND GROWTHRack Centre clients have the flexibility to implement information systems in the way they choose, and easily make changes as needed, whether scaling systems or changing how they interconnect with ISP or carrier.

Rack Centre’s modular data centres use standardised configurations and can be manufactured in a matter of weeks. Unlike traditional data centre build-outs, modular data centres allow for the deployment of data centre capacity in a fraction of the time.

Locating servers and networking operations in Rack Centre provides clients with the highest level of security, optimal conditions for their equipment and plenty of scope to grow. All cabinet locations are engineered with direct access to a cable distribution system to allow any number of interconnections of any speed.

AGILITY Get your business running in weeks, not 12-18 months.

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RESILIENT CONNECTION TO NIGERIA AND THE WORLD!

Rack Centre operates a carrier neutral facility and it’s fully equipped to support multiple telecommunication carriers.

The diverse access to multiple telecommunication carriers allows our clients to achieve multiple paths and multiple carriers for redundancy and resilience.

Multiple telecommunication providers connected in our facility are Broadbased, MainOne, MTN, Vodacom, Globacom, Airtel, Smile, Etisalat and many more to come.

CARRIERNEUTRAL

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THE INTERNET EXCHANGE POINT OF NIGERIA (IXPN)Rack Centre is the only Tier III designcertified data centre hosting the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN). The IXPN point of presence established in Rack Centre allows for direct and indirect peering, the widest choice of carriers and ISPs, lower cost, improved quality through lower latency and robust connectivity redundancy.

With IXPN in Rack Centre, local ISP’s and telecom carriers switch data traffic more quickly and at a faster speed. Data transactions are domiciled in Nigeria.

HOME OF NIGERIA’S INTERNET EXCHANGE.

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SUSTIANABILITYADVANCED COOLINGRack Centre’s energy-efficient data centre cooling technology offers the lowest Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.5 rather than industry norms of 2.5.

The Air Optimiser is a sophisticated mechanical cooling system linked to the building management system. The cold aisle doors have a patented automatic louver technology which matches cooling to server demand. This close control of air volumes into the IT rooms allow each to operate at mixed densities.

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OUR VISIONRack Centre’s vision is to be the leading data centre in Sub-Saharan Africa; delivering robust colocation services to world class standards. Within a short period of time, Rack Centre has been recognised as the premium data centre facility in West Africa offering reliable service and appreciated for having the most competent and highly motivated personnel in the industry.

AWARDSChosen as a finalist in the Data Centre Dynamics Awards, Modular Deployment category for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Region for 2014.

The Data Centre Dynamics Awards recognise Innovation, Leadership and Best Practice in the global data centre industry and Rack Centre is the only company from Africa to be nominated.

Achieved Leadership and Governance award from Institute for Government Research Leadership Technology.

Rack Centre recently won the Beacon of ICT Award for best infrastructure provider in Nigeria

ABOUT RACK CENTRERack Centre is 100% owned by Jagal, a Nigerian conglomerate holding that operates leading energy businesses and manages a diverse portfolio of investments.

RACK CENTRE PARTNERSThe Rack Centre blue chip partner ecosystem includes more than 7 telecom carriers, strategic reseller partners, service and technical partners. Rack Centre works with its partners to provide hosting, cloud, managed services and connectivity.

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Rack Centre Limited+234 (1) 631 4950 info@rack-centre.comJagal Close, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

www.rack-centre.com