Unveiling the Technology Infrastructure for National Development, By Zeenat Sambo
The ever-evolving technological revolution has continued to cause disruption leading to incremental change across the globe. These changes require technicians to constantly acquire new knowledge and keep abreast of the latest innovative developments and trends to develop digital literacy and digital innovation for the promotion of digital inclusiveness. So to ensure the sharing of knowledge for development, great minds never stop learning, no matter how responsible.
Certainly, there is no end to the acquisition of knowledge as the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Mallam Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has demonstrated his commitment to academia confirming that he still teaches and supervises various postgraduate students, despite his enormous responsibilities as a serving minister.
Pantami made the revelation in an appreciation to the leadership of Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria (MAAUN), Kano, while commissioning the computer school that bears his name there . The Minister took advantage of the ceremony to re-emphasize the important advantage of continuous knowledge acquisition in the technological ecosystem. This is another historic contribution of the institutions to the advancement of knowledge and skills in cyber security, information technology, software engineering and computer science in Nigeria.
MAAUN Founder Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo has informed that the School of Computing is named after the Minister because of his lofty achievements in building Nigeria's digital economy and the encouragement of technological advances in all sectors of the economy.
In an extension of Kano's emerging status as the center of innovation for Nigeria's northwestern geopolitical area, the minister has also commissioned another giant structure in the ancient city of the pyramids , in the form of a world-class building Kano Digital Services Infrastructure and Tier 4 Data Center launched by Galaxy Backbone (GBB) Limited in response to demand from stakeholders and technology companies for more digital data centers in Nigeria.
Inspecting GBB's digital services infrastructure, the minister commended the agency for the step taken to design the center to enhance the total customer experience for its discerning clients who cut across sectors public and private. He said the new digital infrastructure will serve as a backup to Uptime Institute's Tier III certified data center in Abuja.
The new data center infrastructure will provide secure, nationwide available data center services and improve online information needed for seamless research and programming. Indeed, data centers, also called supercomputers, have the capacity to store huge volumes of information.
Data centers are supercomputers that store all of the online information and data of millions of people around the world. Kano's new data center once again confirms that the world is becoming more and more interconnected every day.
Galaxy Backbone Limited was established to enable and provide technology services to public sector agencies and institutions, as well as the private sector, managing information technology and shared services for the Federal Government of Nigeria. While supporting public and private sector organizations and companies in hosting and securing their data for business continuity purposes, he has also engaged in numerous projects to deepen the experience of the national digital infrastructure in the country.
The Kano data center is not the first in Nigeria as the agency had run Nective 1 which is the backbone of the national information and communication network in the states from South. As such, the commissioning of Nective 2, which covers the northern regions of the country, is another major technological achievement of GBB Limited.
The North West Regional Office and Network Operation Center of GBB has brought many benefits to Nigerians, especially to the Northern Region by expanding its technology innovation ecosystem. Data center storage capacity is being implemented in phases, with the first phase being 0.7 petabytes, with the ability to increase as need/demand grows.
The new data center infrastructure...
The ever-evolving technological revolution has continued to cause disruption leading to incremental change across the globe. These changes require technicians to constantly acquire new knowledge and keep abreast of the latest innovative developments and trends to develop digital literacy and digital innovation for the promotion of digital inclusiveness. So to ensure the sharing of knowledge for development, great minds never stop learning, no matter how responsible.
Certainly, there is no end to the acquisition of knowledge as the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Mallam Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has demonstrated his commitment to academia confirming that he still teaches and supervises various postgraduate students, despite his enormous responsibilities as a serving minister.
Pantami made the revelation in an appreciation to the leadership of Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria (MAAUN), Kano, while commissioning the computer school that bears his name there . The Minister took advantage of the ceremony to re-emphasize the important advantage of continuous knowledge acquisition in the technological ecosystem. This is another historic contribution of the institutions to the advancement of knowledge and skills in cyber security, information technology, software engineering and computer science in Nigeria.
MAAUN Founder Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo has informed that the School of Computing is named after the Minister because of his lofty achievements in building Nigeria's digital economy and the encouragement of technological advances in all sectors of the economy.
In an extension of Kano's emerging status as the center of innovation for Nigeria's northwestern geopolitical area, the minister has also commissioned another giant structure in the ancient city of the pyramids , in the form of a world-class building Kano Digital Services Infrastructure and Tier 4 Data Center launched by Galaxy Backbone (GBB) Limited in response to demand from stakeholders and technology companies for more digital data centers in Nigeria.
Inspecting GBB's digital services infrastructure, the minister commended the agency for the step taken to design the center to enhance the total customer experience for its discerning clients who cut across sectors public and private. He said the new digital infrastructure will serve as a backup to Uptime Institute's Tier III certified data center in Abuja.
The new data center infrastructure will provide secure, nationwide available data center services and improve online information needed for seamless research and programming. Indeed, data centers, also called supercomputers, have the capacity to store huge volumes of information.
Data centers are supercomputers that store all of the online information and data of millions of people around the world. Kano's new data center once again confirms that the world is becoming more and more interconnected every day.
Galaxy Backbone Limited was established to enable and provide technology services to public sector agencies and institutions, as well as the private sector, managing information technology and shared services for the Federal Government of Nigeria. While supporting public and private sector organizations and companies in hosting and securing their data for business continuity purposes, he has also engaged in numerous projects to deepen the experience of the national digital infrastructure in the country.
The Kano data center is not the first in Nigeria as the agency had run Nective 1 which is the backbone of the national information and communication network in the states from South. As such, the commissioning of Nective 2, which covers the northern regions of the country, is another major technological achievement of GBB Limited.
The North West Regional Office and Network Operation Center of GBB has brought many benefits to Nigerians, especially to the Northern Region by expanding its technology innovation ecosystem. Data center storage capacity is being implemented in phases, with the first phase being 0.7 petabytes, with the ability to increase as need/demand grows.
The new data center infrastructure...
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