Microsoft Nigeria at its Partner\u2019s Award in Lagos recognised Signal Alliance and MainOne for delivering solutions in the 2016 fiscal year spanning July 2015 through to June 2016. The Microsoft Partners Award is an initiative of Microsoft Nigeria to appreciate partners for their commitment to Microsoft business as well as supporting the digital transformation drive in the country.<\/p>\n
Connectivity and data center solutions company MainOne<\/a>, has won the Microsoft Country Manager\u2019s Partner of the Year Award for Nigeria, during the Microsoft Partner Network Awards held in Lagos recently. The Country Manager\u2019s Partner of the Year Award recognises a partner that was fully aligned to Microsoft\u2019s priorities during the 2016 financial year and has over achieved in one or more of the transformational pillars of Microsoft: personal computing, intelligent cloud and reinventing productivity. The choice of MainOne this year reinforces the company as a leader in enterprise cloud and data center solutions in Nigeria.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are pleased to recognise MainOne as this year\u2019s Winner of the 2016 Microsoft Country Manager\u2019s Partner of the Year Award,\u201d said Oluwawemimo Adeniyi, Director Small Midmarket Solutions and Partners, Microsoft Nigeria. \u201cMainOne is a classic example of the excellent resource we see in our Microsoft partner ecosystem to deliver innovative and transformative solutions to our mutual customers.\u201d<\/p>\n In his comments while receiving the award, MainOne\u2019s Chief Information Security Officer, Chidinma Iwe, said \u201cWe are honoured to be recognised by Microsoft as Country Partner of the Year. Since January 2015, when we launched our Tier III data center<\/a>, we have worked with Microsoft to provide cloud-based solutions to our customers. This award cannot have come at a more opportune time than this, as it demonstrates the value we bring to our customers by helping them improve organisational efficiency at competitive costs during these challenging times.<\/p>\n \u201cWith MainOne\u2019s cloud technology, enterprises can leverage the latest solutions available on the Microsoft Azure platform or host locally to enhance their business with minimal expenditure as majority of the capital expenditure is borne by the cloud host, being MainOne. The platform enables Infrastructure as a service, a solution MainOne offers to customers in finance, e-commerce and oil and gas sectors who need their data domiciled in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe cloud technology is also built to enable MainOne to offer Cloud Connect, a solution that provides enterprises with dedicated connectivity to their Microsoft Office 365 and other web services offshore including Amazon web services. In addition, MainOne enables other cloud business partners to host their solutions on our platform allowing them to go to market quicker knowing that their hardware environment is managed by the Tier III MainOne Data center MDXi<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMainOne is proud to build up the region\u2019s low technology footprint. In addition to the Microsoft Country Manager\u2019s Partner of the Year Award, we have received other awards including the PCI DSS and ISO 9001 and 27001 certifications, Frost & Sullivan Nigerian Data Centre Customer Value Leadership Award, African Information Technology and Telecoms Awards, Telecoms Wholesale Provider of the Year and Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry Award for Excellence in Broadband Infrastructure, among others,\u201d Iwe concluded.<\/p>\n