As the next step in its on-going campaign to position Mauritius as a global centre for business continuity and disaster recovery, the country’s Board of Investment has appointed consulting firm BroadGroup as advisors on its data centre strategy, and also as producers of a special two-day conference for enterprise CIOs, IT directors and senior data centre managers and investors.

"Mauritius is ideally positioned at the crossroads of Africa, Asia and Australia and outside major earthquake ridges," commented Philip Low, managing director at BroadGroup. "The island is also well known as a major financial and infocom hub. Being relatively remote but well-connected to the world is a major attribute for the island-nation to position itself as a disaster recovery and business continuity destination."

Mauritius is connected to the SAFE/SAT3/W3C international fibre optic cable networks, and a further link is envisaged to the SEACOM/EaSSy cable which will link Southern and Eastern Africa to Europe and India, by mid 2010.

In this context, Mauritius will host the Internet Data Centre Conference which will take place September 30 - October 1 2009, to connect local operators with potential partners. The event will also act as a showcase to position Mauritius as the next emerging data hosting and business continuity destination, which is increasingly recognized as a bilingual, high-quality destination with cost per seat comparable with India, Philippines and Egypt.

The possibility of solving the cooling issues which the data centre industry is facing at the moment through the use of sea-water air-conditioning in a dedicated eco-park will also be presented in the conference.

•Date: 10th July 2009• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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