AMECEA: CUEA Holds Ground Breaking Ceremony for Data Centre Construction
SOURCE: CUEA Communications and AMECEA Online News reporter
The Vice Chancellor (VC) of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, (CUEA) Prof. Justus Mbae on 6th October 2016 launched the construction of the long awaited Data Centre run by Internet Colocation input output (icolo.io) in Africa.
The project had been approved by the University Council as part of the diversification of revenue generation and reinforcing the teaching and learning of ICT at the University. The project was also to create employment opportunities and strengthen the University relations with leading institutions.
During the groundbreaking ceremony, the Vice Chancellor paid glowing tribute to icolo.io and welcomed them to join CUEA and the AMECEA fraternity. The VC stressed the value of ICT as an enabler of innovation and the future of growth as well as development for the region and beyond.
He noted with appreciation that major ICT providers in Kenya, Africa and beyond shall pull their data cables into the University and thus putting CUEA on the global ICT map. He emphasised that both staff and students shall have access to the facility for purposes of research, training and internships.
Furthermore, he reminded the users of the facility to observe human values and moral ethics as outlined by the Catholic Church.
The Director of icolo.io, Mr. Ranjith Cherickel expressed his joy that the project had eventually commenced. He thanked the University administration and in particular, Prof. Mbae and the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Rev. Dr. Pius Male for speeding up the process and have the construction start.
He said that they will construct a ‘state of the art’ facility based on European Standards and contribute to the role the University plays in the AMECEA region and beyond. The facility will have huge servers that institutions can rent to keep their data and also provide uninterrupted ICT support to business enterprises in the region and beyond.
Icolo.io (www.icolo.io) is a carrier and vendor neutral data centre service provider that designs, builds and operates state of the art carrier neutral data centre to serve a broad spectrum of clients – telecom carriers, ISPs and peering points, IT and cloud providers, content providers, enterprise and financial services customers.
These Data Centers are hyper-connected hubs and provide colocation services which include power, security, network access, redundancy, rack space, and precision cooling to its customers.
Clients benefit from lower costs and improved resilience by securely housing their information systems and networking equipment in the purpose built facilities which are operated to global best practices by an expert organisation.
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