EAST AFRICA DATA CENTRE
Inside the East Africa Data Centre
what is meant by Tier I , II or even III ? We had to really educate ourselves on what we were getting into ,” he says .
Part of this process saw Kwach travel the world and explore data centres in the UK , South Africa and Dubai .
“ My other challenge was to understand what the value in a commercial data centre was , not just from a technical aspect but to ensure alignment to a customer need .”
As product manager , Kwach was tasked with developing a business plan and commercial strategy for EADC . The first task ? Settling on a colocation site , which could host multiple network service providers and offer primary or secondary hosting to enterprise customers .
EADC was the first carrier neutral
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