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Business Connexion
Nigeria benefits from
Case Study
Objective
Improve knowledge of data centre
design and operation
Approach
Researched suitable training courses
IT Matters
• Instructs sta in the operation and
maintenance of a mission critical
data centre
• Teaches the design lifecycle of data
centres and the stages involved
• Empowers participants to
pinpoint data centre challenges
and provide solutions
Business Matters
• Makes Business Connexion Nigeria
more competitive in its market
• Improves the level of service
provided to clients
• Enables sta to eectively deal
with vendors and contactors
specialist training
HPE Education Services delivers valuable
data centre knowledge
Business Connexion Nigeria
(BCX) specialises in data
centre projects. It’s often
called in to help clients whose
data centres have been
designed and implemented
by non-professionals, leading
to problems with system
availability, performance
and security. To ensure that
it provides a professional
service, members of the
BCX team have attended
two specialist data centre
courses run by HPE
Education Services.
Challenge
Improved design knowledge
Business Connexion Group (BCX) is one of
Africa’s leading ICT service providers with
over 30 years of operational experience.
Headquartered in Johannesburg, it has
more than 7,500 employees across six
African countries, the UK and Dubai.
The company oers a wide range of
services including business consulting,
communication, data centre management,
information security and cloud computing.
It also runs a world class Global Service
Management Centre that provides clients
with a single contact point to resolve their
IT issues, and has a network of data centres
with direct interconnectivity.
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Nigeria
“After attending the HPE training courses, I now know much
more about how to design and implement eicient data centres.
I’m much better equipped to solve clients’ problems.”
– Kelvin Oghafua, senior enterprise design architect, Business Connexion Nigeria
Industry
IT Services
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The Nigeria branch in Lagos has 150
sta. To date, this oice has delivered
projects including data centres, wireless
networks and cabling infrastructures to
clients in the financial services, academic,
telecommunications, SMB and oil and gas
sectors. One of its main jobs is to assist with
data centre design and operation and the
BCX team are called in by many companies
who need help.
“Most of our clients previously had their data
centres designed and implemented by nonprofessionals and this was aecting system
availability, performance and security. That is
why it called in BCX to help it redesign and
implement new environments,” says Kelvin
Oghafua, senior enterprise design architect
with BCX Nigeria.
To ensure that it could provide the best
service, BCX Nigeria needed training in the
recommended standards for data centre
design and it turned to Hewlett Packard
Enterprise for the answer.
The two-day professional course exposes
trainees to the key components of the
data centre, addressing how to set up and
improve eiciency. Instruction covers key
aspects of the high-availability data centre
such as power, cooling, security, cabling and
safety. The training also addresses the main
operational and maintenance aspects of a
mission critical data centre. Participants can
tap into the trainer’s extensive experience
to discuss specific needs and issues in
their own environments, assisting them in
solving practical problems. Objectives are
to enable trainees to choose the optimum
size for mission critical data centres based
on current and future needs; describe all the
components needed for a high-availability
data centre and name and apply various
industry standards and technologies.
The three-day specialist course focuses
on the knowledge needed to review and
improve existing data centre facilities and
to decide on the correct implementation of
those facilities.
Solution
Understanding the requirements
To obtain the necessary knowledge and
skills, BCX employees have attended HPE
Education Services’ Certified Data Center
Professional® and Certified Data Center
Specialist® training courses.
It empowers customers to deal with
suppliers and to be able to verify oers
from vendors for suitability, eectiveness
and eiciency.
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Business Connexion
Nigeria
Industry
IT Services
Customer at a glance
HPE services
• HPE Education Services Certified
Data Center Professional® Training
• HPE Education Services Certified
Data Center Specialist® Training
The course uses a combination of lectures
and Q&A sessions to discuss participants’
specific needs and the issues they have
experienced in their own environments.
After completing the course, attendees
should be able to understand the design
lifecycle of data centres and the stages
involved; discuss data centre requirements
in detail with vendors, suppliers and
contractors; validate design plans and
understand redundancy levels for data
centre design, setup and maintenance.
HPE has a global agreement with EPI,
the developer of the course material,
and the training is available on a global
basis via any HPE oice. All courseware
and examinations are accredited by EXIN
which is an independent accreditation and
examination institute with over two million
certified students. Training is delivered by
HPE instructors who are certified by EPI.
HPE Education has a comprehensive
portfolio of solutions and services that
the workforce of an organisation needs, to
meet their desired business outcomes on
the journey to the new style of IT which is
driven by big data, cloud, mobility and
security. The training solutions for the new
style of IT are intended to make IT simpler,
safer, more agile, faster, and more cost
eective and to produce a better skilled
workforce. Organisations may have the
best technology but without skilled
workers, they won’t get the most from
their investment in technology.
Benefit
Better equipped
“I have previously undertaken data centre
professional training with another supplier
but I preferred the HPE Education Services
course because it was very comprehensive,”
says Oghafua. “It covered end-to-end design
principles and the cooling and power parts
were also very useful to me.
“I think that taking part in the HPE training
enables me to create better data centre
designs for our customers. Now, when I
re-design the data centres I can adhere
to the proper standards such as TIA 942,
the recognised telecom standard for data
centres. I am also better equipped to
advise on data centre locations and
building standards.
“The advice I have been able to give as
a result of this training has dramatically
reduced downtime at our clients’ sites
and has enabled me to eectively analyse
original equipment manufacturer (OEM)
products and advise my clients on them.”
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