As banks, security organizations and other entities requiring data storage, Africa is seeing a growth of data centres across the continent. The Jasco Group, an ICT smart technology solutions partner has signed an agreement with Icolo to create a data centre in Karen, Nairobi.
In light of this, new points of presence (PoP) are growing. Nairobi is becoming a hub as data storage and security is becoming needed ever so more.
Jasco co-locating with Icolo takes the company a step towards ensuring it provides its customer’s guaranteed solutions. Data centres offer non-stop available of internet and data with guaranteed backup and protection against damage, disaster and damage.
iColo is a carrier-neutral data centre service provider. They offer access to co-locate to business in all fields including cloud providers, content providers, financial sector and enterprise segment. Therefore, it creates an ecosystem for businesses to hold on as well as grow. The company has data centres in Mombasa and Nairobi which provide 99.999% availability of power, security, cooling and connectivity.
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With cloud security becoming a major stepping stone in Africa, dedicated data centres are needed as real-time security, aggregation and acquisition of data and storage in safe centres is imperative as economies are growing.
Jasco co-locating with Icolo takes the company a step towards ensuring it provides its customer’s guaranteed solutions. Data centres offer non-stop available of internet and data with guaranteed backup and protection against damage, disaster and damage.
Jasco is an ICT company covering the whole of East Africa with IP telephony systems, contact centres, professional voice recorders and data storage applications. With the number of challenges faced in maintaining data in house, Jasco offers carrier-neutral data centre services, providing network infrastructure and data centre space for the storage and exchange of traffic from a variety of different networks.
The company also has a unified communication technology with a voice over IP which integrates with other UC solutions and voice messaging systems to answer calls when users cannot.
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Through the power of intelligent technology and automation, Jasco incorporates smart building technologies such as connectivity, automated lighting, heating, ventilation and cooling, energy management, surveillance, security, access control, alarm activation, renewable energy, building management and more.
Jasco has invested in renewable energy such that businesses will be less dependent on utility or grid-supplied energy with investment in solar electricity production technology.
This will now protect businesses from rising electricity costs, reduce the impact of power outages and offer ever-improving financial investment returns with payback periods in the medium term.
Jasco Renewable Energy offers a number of photovoltaic (PV) energy production solutions, helping organisations to combat global warming, reduce the collective dependence on fossil fuels, and enjoy Carbon Tax savings from 2016 onwards.
