Paratus Group’s brand-new data centre opens in Lusaka, Zambia on 1 October 2021.
Offering colocation services, 24/7 quality connections for local and multinational businesses, together with a highly sophisticated range of digital and aligned services, Paratus Zambia is helping local and international businesses in the region to perform at a new and unlimited level.
The Paratus Zambia data centre offers customers colocation services. Customers are given the option to rent space within the data centre for their equipment and servers. Businesses can choose from a range of options, including dedicated, shared, caged, and private suite options.
The benefits of using colocation services include unlimited 24/7 physical access to equipment and the facility. If a customer is not able to physically make it to the facility, the Paratus Zambia DC team will offer their remote hands service which enables the DC team to perform any immediate functions on the customer’s behalf.
In terms of overall maintenance, the Data Center is designed with optimal resilience to allow for concurrent maintainability. It is also fitted with redundant systems ranging from power, cooling and connectivity with each running system on a primary and alternate to achieve this. This essentially means each one works concurrently to ensure maximum availability and that the customer’s systems are constantly online.
Colocation is especially advantageous to smaller business owners who do not necessarily have the capital to invest in the infrastructure similar to a data centre. Colocation means they can migrate to the data centre and have access to all these significant services and minimise some of the risks and costs that come with onsite data maintenance.
If a company loses its connectivity or power to their critical equipment and systems, it can lead to an unfortunate loss of productivity and other far-reaching effects such as loss of business.
The benefit of moving offsite and migrating to one of the Paratus Data Centres, is that the facility guarantees uninterrupted power and connectivity. It runs at a 1-megawatt power capacity with two dedicated generators, and this ensures uninterrupted power.
Each on-site data hall has connectivity resilience, and each cabinet has dual UPS feeds which deliver up to 3.5kVA. It is advantageous to have UPS systems in place as this allows for back-up power to be activated in case there is a utility power outage.
However, having a dual UPS feed is more beneficial, as this means that there are two separate sets of these components always operating independently, so if the one cuts out, the other one automatically starts operating.
Although Paratus operates its own resilient 100 Gbps fibre network that interconnects the Data Centre to the rest of the world, the Paratus Data Centre is carrier neutral. This means that the client has more choice in connectivity options and has the freedom to connect to the facility using a solutions’ partner that works for them.