Rack Center

 
#8Rack Center
CEOAyotunde Coker
Year Founded (in Nigeria)2013
Websitewww.rack-centre.com
Head OfficePlot 18, Jagal Close, Jagal Road, Oregun, Lagos
NationalityNG

Rack Centre is the first and only truly carrier neutral state-of-the-art Tier III Constructed Facility Certified data center in Africa offering colocation, content distribution, interconnect and Cloud services. It’s also the most connected and certified of such facility in Africa, featuring connection to over 40 of the major carriers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the Nigeria.

It is a pan Africa international carriers, and had direct connection to all 5 undersea cables serving the South Atlantic Coast of Africa; every country on the Atlantic coast of Africa is directly connected to Rack Centre.

Its CloudonGround™ services offers locally hosted comprehensive Cloud and content distribution marketplace.

This brings the hosting of world class Cloud services to Nigeria thereby reducing the entry threshold to high quality Cloud services to the West African region. 

All these and quality of service had earned Rack Centre, wide range of accolade and awards
Rack Centre who is embarking on an expansion of its Lagos campus to 6,000 sqm (64,000 sq ft) to accommodate 13MW of IT power capacity hit the news recently with an attractive investment from Actis, a London private equity firm, who is also taking a controlling stake in the business