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Nigeria’s premier carrier neutral data centre operator, Medallion Data Centre Limited is now officially rebranded as Digital Realty, a move that should strengthen its market presence in Africa allowing it to leverage the “huge opportunity to both meet growing customer demand for connectivity in Africa and improve the internet infrastructure.”
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The data centre operator announced the opening of its second data centre, LOS2, in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city significantly boosting its capacity to service its growing number of clients.
The new facility offers customers an additional one megawatt of IT capacity to be connected to the existing LOS1 data centre, currently rated as the most interconnected facility in the West African sub-region and the top peering point for the region.
Founded by Ikechukwu Nnamani who was also its CEO, Medallion Data Centre was acquired in 2021 by Digital Realty, a data center real estate investment trust in a joint venture with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to begin its new corporate journey as Digital Realty.
Before its acquisition in 2021, Medallion operated two data centres in Lagos and Abuja.
“The rebranding from Medallion to Digital Realty is a testament of our commitment to our customers and vision of being a world class organization in technology industry. Indeed, it is a new dawn for Nigeria’s telecommunication sector,” said Nnamani in Lagos during the rebranding ceremony. He continues as the CEO of the rebranded Digital Realty company in Nigeria.
Often described as one of Nigeria’s telecom industry visionary leaders, Nnamani said with the rebranding the company is now poised to enhance its service delivery to meet the growing expectations of the market.
His words: “In line with our customers and values, Medallion has now been rebranded as Digital Realty, We have made a strategic decision to align with Digital Reality and we are proud to be part of one of America’s largest Public Companies.”
“For over a decade, we have been at the forefront of the Nigerian digital economy through the provisioning of carrier neutral data centre services in both Lagos and Abuja. Over that period, as a company, we have solidified our position as the “go-to” provider for fast, efficient, and cost-effective data centre and connectivity services where time to market and affordability has become essential “he said. This is a testament of our commitment to our customers and vision of being a world-class organization in technology industry. Indeed, it is a new dawn for Nigeria’s telecommunication sector.”
According to Digital Realty’s Vice President for Market Development, Mike Hollands, “we are able to build and expand on the existing customers and structures to continue to grow and expand the business and to also help make internet infrastructure in Nigeria stronger and better.”
Hollands stressed that Digital Realty will leverage the huge opportunity to meet “growing customer demand for connectivity in Africa and improve the internet infrastructure that serves over one billion people who don’t yet have proper access to the benefits of the Internet.”
With assets valued in excess of $42 billion; a generated revenue of about $4.9 billion and declared profits of $ 373.3 million as at 2023, Digital Realty is touted as an entity that brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. Its portfolio of services includes artificial intelligence (AI), networks, cloud, digital media, mobile, financial services, healthcare, and gaming.
PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive center architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges.
“Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in more than 50 metros across more than 25 countries on six continents.
