Sunnet, Datacom, IBM educate businesses on IT utilisation

Indigenous Information Technology companies, Sunnet Systems and Datacom Services Limited, in collaboration with IBM, have emphasised the increasing importance of IT in business transformation. They said businesses could never become more agile and fast in delivering products and services without deploying the right IT.
The firms insisted that there was the need for businesses to optimise their operations by deploying the right IT infrastructure, adding that this was the rationale behind the one-day customer sensitisation forum they jointly organised in Lagos on Friday.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Sunnet Systems, Mr. Paul Olagunju, said the forum was to educate clients on how they could transform their businesses using IT solutions to make them more agile and fast in the delivery of products and services.
According to him, Sunnet Systems has a proven track record in the delivery of IT infrastructure, customised application solutions, and implementation systems support and services in Nigeria.
He explained that the company, in partnership with IBM, was also offering solutions in data centre deployment and management, project management for government, technology software, enterprise resource planning, and global integrated network infrastructure.
Olagunju said the partnership with IBM had enabled the company to have access to various IBM infrastructure, technology, services and technical supports, adding that this had enhanced its position in delivering end-to-end suites of solution to its customers.
He said Sunnet Systems had been engaged in the implementation of over 20 data centres in the country as well as other African countries with cutting-edge technologies to the financial, oil and gas, public and telecoms sector.
The Sunnet Systems boss, who disclosed that the company had been a premier IBM partner for 15 years, said it had been providing data centre infrastructure and software solutions in West, East and Southern Africa, with operational hubs in Lagos and Ghana.
Olagunju said, “Currently, we have two hubs with which we reach out to African markets. One of them is in Lagos, where we reach out to countries such as Equatorial Guinea, Chad and Niger Republic; and the second one is in Ghana, where we reach out to customers in Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal and Gambia.
“We are creating a third hub in Kenya through which we can reach countries like Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania and Central African Republic, and this will take place in the first quarter of 2013.”
Speaking on IBM data centre solutions, the Enterprise IT Architect, IBM West Africa, Mr. Nwoke Okechukwu, said to meet the business and IT demands of today and the unpredictability of the future, organisations needed more flexible ways to manage capacity growth and integrate new technologies into the data centre environment.
He added that IBM modular data centre designs held the key to such flexibility, enabling continuous IT capacity growth, while cutting operational cost and also reducing environmental impact.