The Tribune

Cable Bahamas has unveiled its state-of-the-art Grand Bahama data centre, which is designed to provide commercial clients with histing and business continuity/disaster recovery services.

The Grand Bahama Data Centre, located in the heart of Freeport, also complements Cable Bahamas’ existing data centre at its Robinson Road headquarters complex in Nassau.

With data centres in New Providence and Grand Bahama, businesses based on each island can now locate their back-up servers and data storage on the other island. This makes a natural disaster threatening their home base operation less likely to affect the back-up systems located at the data centre on the other island.

Cable Bahamas said that although the two data centres are more than 120 miles apart, they are connected by the company’s fibre optic data network.

The BISX-listed communications provider’s commercial sales director, Andre Knowles, said: “A business with online operations and vital data processing needs - which are most businesses today - cannot afford any downtime. Our two data centres virtually eliminate downtime.”

The data centre facilities are housed within a secure concrete and steel structure. It is supported by dual UPS (uninterruptable power supply) systems, as well as backup generators, redundant water-chilled air handling systems, and smoke and fire suppression systems.

Edris Wilson, operations manager at Cable Bahamas’ Freeport office, said: “We are delighted that a data centre of this kind is on the island of Grand Bahama. With its state-of-the-art design and infrastructure, our clients can feel safe and secure.”

The Grand Bahama Data Centre provides clients with full rack and half rack space options. The centre was designed, built and maintained by Cable Bahamas’ own Bahamian engineering team, and is constantly monitored by the company’s network operations centre.