LAGOS, NIGERIA
- EQS Newswire - February 20, 2020 - On February 21, 2020, MDXi, MainOne's data
center subsidiary, will announce the local offering of Microsoft's Azure Stack
to its customers as part of its 'Managed Cloud Services'. The Stack platform
provided in partnership with Microsoft and HPE will be unveiled at MainOne's
5th annual gathering of customers, partners and tech professionals, called Nerds
Unite.

With the
introduction of the local offering of Microsoft's Azure Stack services, MDXi
will be the first data center in Nigeria to offer the Cloud service commercially
to customers in Nigeria.  This latest Cloud
offering by MDXi into the Nigerian market, will reinforce MainOne's leadership
positioning in the Cloud market, enabling the company to offer its customer a broader
suite of cloud solutions. Ranging from managed Cloud deployment on public and
private Cloud services in the MDXi data center, to management of offshore deployment
on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure, in addition to Express Route services
that enable secure, reliable communications to cloud services offshore.

Showcasing at
the launch will be some of the benefits of MDXi's Azure Stack in processing
in-country data and applications thereby reducing customer latency to under 10ms
and resulting in better
experiences for end users.  The demo will
also showcase cost effective data storage solutions that allow businesses meet all their data sovereignty requirements with locally domiciled infrastructure.

The new Cloud services
platform will offer enterprises and businesses the choice of a scalable,
flexible computing platform to enable them to migrate critical applications
from legacy technology to modernized and more efficient technology without
having to go offshore.

"MDXi has been in
the business of providing Cloud services to its Enterprise customers for over 5
years, with skilled and certified engineers.  We are the data center of
choice for Enterprise looking to host data locally in the Cloud. With the
introduction of the Azure Stack solution, we further demonstrate our commitment
to investing in Cloud infrastructure in order to continually meet the changing
and growing requirements of our customers in Nigeria, and indeed across West
Africa. Our partnership with Microsoft and investment in HPE
infrastructure to deploy the Cloud platform continues to position MDXi as the
West Africa's leading communications solution provider, delivering world-class
quality services to our local customers." said Gbenga Adegbiji, General
Manager, MDXi.

Nerds Unite,
MainOne's flagship event of the year, brings together IT professionals,
influencers, and decision makers in an environment for one full day to connect,
discover opportunities, collaborate, and learn new techniques and breakthrough
trends in the global IT industry. This year's edition will feature presentations
and panel discussions on Cloud adoption, Cloud migration and all things Cloud
with global leaders across West Africa, making it the perfect platform for MDXI
to unveil its new Cloud services.

MDXi builds and
operates Tier III data center campuses across West Africa to meet the rapidly expanding
global demand for certified data centre facilities.
It's Tier III data center in Lekki, Lagos-Nigeria, is the largest purpose-built
commercial data center in West Africa, designed with a strong focus on high
availability, security, and open access connectivity. Its facilities have operated with 100% uptime
since inception.