OADC’ s newly appointed CEO, Ayotunde Coker, shares his vision for Africa’ s future and the role OADC will play in the country’ s transformation
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OADC’ s newly appointed CEO, Ayotunde Coker, shares his vision for Africa’ s future and the role OADC will play in the country’ s transformation
L ate 2021 saw WIOCC- the leading player in the deployment of carrier-scale, futureproofed network infrastructure into Africa- announce US $ 200mn in funding to launch a new pan-African data centre operator through WIOCC Group company Open Access Data Centres( OADC). Along with this announcement, OADC revealed its plans to invest US $ 500mn over the next five years in deploying and operating a network of world-class data centres across the continent.
Just over six months later, OADC’ s newly appointed CEO, Ayotunde Coker, shares his plans to drive Africa’ s digital ecosystem forward:“ We want to build at speed, expanding the market and delivering customer-centric value propositions. In Africa, the future is cloud. If you consider the business model for mobile telephony in Africa, its success was ensured by a pay-as-you-go charging model. The cloud is the most effective way to deliver technology solutions to customers – and again, is based on a pay-as-yougrow, pay-as-you-go, pay-as-you-need model.”
“ We see significant growth and further opportunity in the hyperscale cloud data centre market. Our new facility in Lagos, for example, is being built in phases to match demand, but can ultimately scale to over 20MW, capable of supporting over 5,000 racks. However, not every location requires facilities of this size. In more regional business hubs, a medium-sized data centre( or‘ midi’), circa 200 to 400-rack facilities, for instance, is more appropriate, and for smaller edge workloads, edge facilities of up to 150kW critical power support services, applications and network extension closer to the network edge; so, uniquely in Africa, we are doing all of this.”
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