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AFRICA

“ Currently , larger data service and cloud providers reach out to DC operators , like us , so that they can meet more of their client needs in Africa ”

DAN KWACH GM of EADC facility built in the region , and it just hit another milestone having joined an elite list of independently certified data centre facilities by Uptime Institute – the leading data centre certification and accreditation body . “ This is a stamp of approval for EADC having met Tier III requirements as a concurrently maintainable facility ,” says Kwach
The facility is currently in the process of completing the requirements for ISO 27001 Certification – a globally acclaimed information security management standard that forms a basis of securing critical operations , functions and businesses against risk .
Evolution But the work is not over for EADC . As competition heats up in the data
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