Hosting Over 200 Secured Public Websites
By Our Reporter
Nigeria’s leading public data and cloud services company, Galaxy Backbone, said today that it would spend about $100 million to expand its data services infrastructure and extend services to 18 more states in the next few months.
The company’s second phased project could actually begin in June, according to the company’s Business Manager for Lagos and the South West, Tope Dele-Oni.
Dele-Oni spoke at Cyber Africa’s Breakfast meeting on Data Center and Cloud Roundtable held in Lagos.
Currently, Galaxy Backbone provide services to 13 states and has 38% of Abuja covered in a 10-year effort which has seen the flourishing public data and cloud company’s infrastructure transit from radio to Vsat and now into fibre.
Dele-Oni also said its 4G platform is LTE-enabled and the company is well-prepared to transit to 5G at the appropriate time.
He said GB was not thinking of taking its services outside the country as only 25 per cent of the huge market in Nigeria has been served.
According to Dele-Oni, GB currently hosts over 200 public websites, among them Pencom, and since it began offering services in 2008 none of its platforms has been penetrated by hackers and other intruders, which is due to the robustness of its network.
“None has come down for a second. Security is very key for us at GB, such that we have a security operation Centre that ensures invulnerability”, he added.
He said GB provides two of the five top security levels, such that every attempt by hackers to penetrate its network has failed, more so as its network is secured by United States, Chinese and Israeli expertise.
“ When you host your data with GB you do not think about how to preserve it; your data longevity and all other management issues, such as cooling, space, and electricity because they are all well covered by our services”, he added.
Dele-Oni said, though GB had initial challenges in getting government agencies to patronize it, that has since changed as some of the leading security outfits have signed on to its services.
“We have actually matured, we have grown. We are where we should be; we are miles ahead of others. In terms of funding support we are also ahead”, Dele-Oni confidently said.
GB was set up to promote data sovereignty across the country and secure government information processes and connect public institutions under one national infrastructure, among other mandates.
