The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Wednesday said it had inaugurated an ultra-modern green data centre aimed at safeguarding its equipment and intellectual property.
This is contained in a statement signed by the Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division of the corporation, Mr Fidel Pepple.
It said that the data center was designed for maximum energy efficiency with minimum environmental impact and built with leading industry standard technologies.
It said that the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mr Andrew Yakubu, described the centre as highly secured and fault-resistant.
“Today, we begin a bold and crucial journey in our collective quest with an eye for the future by inaugurating the New NNPC Data Centre,’’ Yakubu said.
He said that the philosophy behind the project was to establish a centre where equipment central to the corporation could be hosted.
“It is common knowledge that in today’s global corporate space, data centres are not only prevalent but have become indispensable.
“These centres are specialised environments that safeguard a company’s most valuable equipment and intellectual property.
“They house the critical enterprise applications and systems that process business transactions, store data and maintain financial records.
“The centre will save the corporation billions of naira that would have been expended in third-party hosting of critical applications central to NNPC’s operations like the Nigerian Petroleum Exchange.’’
Yakubu said that the state-of-the-art corporate data centre took-off in 2005 when it was identified as one of the critical requirements for an effective transformation of the corporation.
He said that the new facility had independent power, efficient cooling, intelligent physical security, fire protection systems and other components.
He added that the facilities were to ensure consistent availability of critical business applications and information on the platform.
The group managing director said that the facility would be available for use by the private sector operators on commercial basis to generate revenue. (NAN)