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Optimising Business Operations in the Oil & Gas Industry

MDXi, a MainOne company and West Africa’s leading data center company, has provided a roadmap to optimise business operations in Nigeria’s Oil and Gas industry at a webinar titled; “Optimizing Business Operations in Oil and Gas Industry with MDXi Cloud and colocation solutions.”

The high-impact, virtual conference offered insights into myriad benefits of data center services, enabling attendees appreciate the benefits of outsourcing their IT infrastructure to a service provider that complies with global standards. MDXi is certified compliant with ISO27001, ISO9001, PCI-DSS and SOC 2 standards which provides the assurance these companies require to focus on their core areas rather than IT.

Expanding on the theme, Akinkunmi Ogunsola, Head of Cloud Services at MainOne, showcased how businesses in the Oil and Gas industry have leveraged these solutions for success in today’s market. According to him, “It is important that the Oil and Gas sector rethink the way they manage their IT infrastructure in order to derive certain benefits, and migrate to the ‘new normal’ with zero service impact” he adds.

The panel session had Corporate Communications General Manager of Lekoil Nigeria, Hamilton Esi and Managing Director of ILF Engineers Nigeria Limited West Africa, Abiodun Oshodi, discussing the benefits of leveraging MDXi’s data center services and how these solutions has helped their organizations improve performance, optimize business operations and increase efficiency. According to Esi, “With the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to rethink how to work effectively at a time when everybody retreated to their homes and so thought that moving our IT infrastructure into a colocation facility would free up the burden of managing things on our own. The MDXi team assisted us to ensure a seamless transition that facilitated a company policy that has staff working from home, with better efficiency and productivity”.

Abiodun Oshodi, recounted a similar experience. He explained how MainOne came to the company’s rescue by assisting to make the switch swift and seamless, when his company had urgent need to react to the pandemic.

MDXi continues to blaze the trail in enabling the digital transformation of businesses. Its carrier neutral data centers provide colocation, cloud, and managed services to leading players in the Oil and Gas industry across West Africa.