National Data Centre launched in Accra
A national data centre to facilitate the efficient delivery of government services and serve the private sector has been launched in Accra.
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The primary national data centre is situated in Accra, while a secondary centre is sited at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) campus in Kumasi.
The centres are being managed by the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) and its partners- Alcatel Lucent and Huawei Technologies, Ghana (HTG), on behalf of the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).
By managing the centres, the NITA and its partners will relieve the MDAs of the burden of hosting their own applications and allow them to concentrate on their core businesses.
The MDAs will be provided with email, antivirus, document management systems initially from the data centre and given more of such utility applications over time, to ensure structured and simplified work flow between and among them.
The centre will house several racks of computing equipment, including high performance servers, fibre channel disk storage, backup storage systems and sufficient power conditioning and resources to keep the data centre running.
Launching ceremony
At the launch of the centre yesterday, the Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, reiterated that the centre would facilitate the storage, management, and dissemination of data and information for both public and private establishments.
Its installations, the minister said, included first-rate gadgets to safeguard security and prevent problems such as power outages and burglary or poor cleaning services.
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Dr Omane Boamah said the establishment of the centre was part of the government’s policy to make information resources widely available and accessible to all, to facilitate the consolidation and aggregation of all the government’s key computing infrastructure in secure, highly available and resilient facilities.
For his part, the Director of Enterprise Business (DEB) from HTG, Mr Archur Zou, said the centre was of world standard, adding “our teams of expertise are ever ready to work with clientele who may require the services of this all important centre.
We have deployed similar solutions in several other countries around the globe; therefore, you can trust our expertise to get you nothing but the best,” he stressed.