Abuja, Nigeria - MainOne, the leading provider of connectivity solutions for
businesses in West Africa is empowering enterprises to adopt Cloud technology
by connecting businesses across the region directly and privately to public
cloud service providers.
The MainOne Cloud Connect service ensures direct, secure, and
reliable network connectivity between enterprise data centers or offices locations
and public cloud providers such as Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services. MainOne
also has a partnership with Equinix-Telecity that grants the company direct
access to other global providers such as Oracle and IBM, thereby giving customers
access to the services they need.
With MainOne Cloud
Connect, enterprises can collaborate seamlessly while adopting remote work (Work
from Home) policies. Collaborating across phones, emails, and applications has
been made easier through cloud-hosted team collaboration applications with
MainOne Cloud Connect providing additional security and compliance benefits for
industries in the Financial, Oil and Gas, and Manufacturing sectors.
MainOne Cloud
Connect solution is backed by MainOne’s private submarine cable and supports
direct connections to Cloud services at speeds from 10 Mbps to 100 Gbps.
According to the Head, Technical Solutions & Managed Services, Oluwasayo
Oshadami, “Our Cloud Connect service enables businesses in Nigeria, Ghana, and
Cote d’Ivoire to adapt to the rapid growth of cloud solutions with always-on,
secure access to their cloud-enabled applications. Our investments in a
world-class connectivity infrastructure coupled with technology from our global
partners is strategically positioned to support the digital transformation
efforts of our customers”.
As stated by one of
the company’s customers “MainOne Cloud Connect service allowed our team has
direct access to Microsoft Azure services, which means we don’t have to
leverage on the shared internet of the bank which was resulting in high
bandwidth usage, unpredictable latency, and impact on other services. The
latency of the service is guaranteed, and the service performance is
predictable”.
