MDXi Appolonia, the data center subsidiary of MainOne, an Equinix company, has announced that it had received Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF) from the Uptime Institute. The facility features private data center suites, enterprise-grade 24×7 multi-level security and video su...

MaineOne has announced the opening of its second facility in Lagos, Nigeria. The West African data center firm recently acquired by Equinix opened the Lekki II data center earlier in the week. MDXi, a subsidiary of MainOne, first announced it was developing the data center in October last year...

Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operation ...

MDXi, a MainOne company, has announced that four months after the launch of its Tier III facility in Appolonia City, Accra, Ghana, it is expanding its data center facilities in Lekki, Lagos.According to reports, the new Tier III data center is being deployed on a “very aggressive timeline.” M...

International Telecoms Week 2021 was recently held, with 1,500 attendees in National Harbor and over 5,000 attending virtually. A number of experts from the data center industry came together and discussed data center expansion in Africa, and the current disparity between data centers and popu...