[ 2016-01-28 ]

National Data Centre opens to private businesses
Accra, Jan. 27, GNA - The National Information
Technology Agency (NITA) has officially announced
the opening of the National Data Centre to private
businesses for commercial use.

The benefits to be derived in using the facility
included cost efficiency as compared to purchasing
and hosting an in-house physical server,
reliability in terms of uninterrupted power
supply, relentless cooling and 24 hours security
of data and equipment.

Other benefits included the fact that periodic
maintenance would be done on the server, flexible
customization of server specification, and upgrade
as well as higher bandwidth at a low cost.

Dr Edward Omane Boamah, the Minister of
Communications, who made this known at a breakfast
meeting by NITA in Accra, said the
State-of-the-Art tier three Centre infrastructure,
was built by Government to facilitate efficient
delivery of government services and use by private
sector with the key objective of speeding up the
uptake of Information and Communication Technology
(ICT), and promoting local content in highly
secured, available and resilient environment.

The primary national data centre, he said, is
situated in Accra with a secondary replica in
Kumasi, is currently being managed by the National
Information Technology Agency (NITA) and its
partners Alcatel and Huawei Technologies, Ghana.

Dr Boamah said with the Centre’s ultra-modern
facility, businesses could rent spaces to
co-locate their servers and other computing
hardware.

He said the Centre has installed first-rate
facilities to safe guard all security and
co-location needs. Worries over burglary or poor
cleaning services were now a thing of the past and
the Centre would also be declared as a security
zone by the National Security to ensure utmost
safety.

According to Dr Boamah, data would soon become the
currency of the 21st century, considering the
changing nature of the economy and that there was
the need for a robust system to ensure that data
was properly stored for use and for development.

Dr Boamah said government has already invested 300
million dollars into the establishment of the
Centre and would remain committed to providing the
enabling environment, but urged NITA to work hard
to build the trust of the private sector towards
embracing the objectives of the Centre.

He further called on private businesses to take
advantage of the numerous benefits to be derived
from the establishment of the Centre to ensure
economic as well as sustainable growth in ICT for
national development.

Mr Eric Akumiah, Project Manager, NITA, said the
benefits to be derived using the facility include
cost efficiency as compared to purchasing and
hosting an in-house physical server, reliability
in terms of uninterrupted power supply, relentless
cooling and 24 hours security of data and
equipment.

Other benefits, he said, were the fact that
periodic maintenance would be done on the server,
flexible customization of server specification and
upgrade, as well as higher bandwidth at a low
cost.

Mr Archur Zou, Director for Enterprise Business at
Huawei Technologies, Ghana, thanked the Ministry
of Communications for the partnership, and assured
government of the Company's continuous support to
the project as it goes commercial.

He said the National Data Center was of world
class standard and their team of expertise was
ever ready to work with all clientele who may
require the services of the all important data
centre.

Source - GNA

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