Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center

The Galaxy Backbone (GBB) has announced that it is launching a Tier IV data center into the public and private sector space, in order to boost its digital infrastructure. In a statement, the agency said: “The infrastructure has been specifically built to respond to the desire of its growing base of customers and stakeholders with a storage capacity of about 2.2 petabytes which translates to huge amounts of data that can be securely stored.”

According to the company, the data center has been built for disaster recovery, back-up and redundancy purposes in order to enhance Nigeria’s drive towards becoming one of the “most recognized digital economies of the world, and a serious player in global digitization.

Speaking about the company’s goals, Professor Muhammad Bello Abubakar, GBB’s Chief Executive, outlined: “Our goal is to collaborate with other private sector ICT companies to enhance digital transformation in Nigeria. So, I invite all of us, to leverage this Tier IV Datacentre for the collective benefit of our customers and stakeholders.”