By Tare Youdeowei

Data Centre Operators, Rack Centre, has been announced as finalist in two categories in this year’s Data Centre Solutions Awards in the United Kingdom. This is the second time consecutively it has been so nominated. The finalist categories are Excellence in Data Centre Services Award’and Data Centre Hosting/co-location Supplier of the Year.

The DCS awards are designed to reward the product designers, manufacturers, suppliers and providers operating in data centre arena.

Reacting to the nomination, Managing Director of Rack Centre, Mr Ayotunde Coker, said: “It is great news that Rack Centre’s dedication to significantly raise the quality threshold for the African data centre industry and our innovation in the local cloud ecosystem through our cloudonground and cloudexchange has been acknowledged by the Data Centre Industry. We are delighted to have been recognised; reaching the finalist shortlist is a great achievement, and we now hope to be voted as winner in at least one of the categories, surpassing our unprecedented runners up last year which was a first for any data centre collocation and cloud company in Africa.