Protecting Nigeria's Digital Destiny: Galaxy Backbone Embraces Disaster Recovery Techniques
In a digital age where data is paramount to governance, commerce, and service delivery, Galaxy Backbone, Nigeria's federal digital infrastructure and shared services provider, is at the forefront of safeguarding digital assets and ensuring business continuity.
Galaxy Backbone's disaster recovery services offer a strategic approach to minimising downtime, financial losses, and rebuilding trust for businesses in the event of disruptions. These services are built upon a foundation of infrastructure resilience, proactive planning, and a strong emphasis on business continuity, data sovereignty, and rapid recovery.
Infrastructure Resilience
At the heart of Galaxy Backbone's offering are Tier III and Tier IV data centres located in Abuja and Kano. These data centres, built to global standards with fault-tolerant architecture, provide secure hosting, off-site data replication, and high-availability systems. They operate under ISO 22301-certified business continuity management frameworks, ensuring strong operational resilience and prioritising data sovereignty. By keeping data within Nigeria’s borders, Galaxy Backbone complies with national and African Union data protection directives.
Strategic Planning
Disaster recovery is not treated as an afterthought by Galaxy Backbone. Instead, it is framed as a critical business continuity strategy for organisations to prepare for inevitable disruptions. The company advocates for comprehensive disaster recovery planning, integrating rapid failover capabilities and tailored digital infrastructure solutions. They collaborate with Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to align disaster recovery with national policies like the Nigeria First Policy and Nigeria Data Protection Regulation requirements.
Key Benefits
The benefits of Galaxy Backbone's disaster recovery services are manifold. They enable Nigerian organisations to maintain uninterrupted public services, ensure regulatory compliance, protect digital assets and organisational reputation, and accelerate digital transformation. The rapid failover and recovery capabilities allow clients to resume operations quickly and safely within Nigerian borders. Galaxy Backbone's role as the government’s designated ICT provider ensures integrated, secure, and reliable digital public infrastructure, fostering Nigeria’s digital resilience amid rising cyber threats and increased digitization.
In summary, Galaxy Backbone delivers secure, compliant, and resilient disaster recovery infrastructure, backed by strategic planning and national ICT policy alignment, providing Nigerian organisations strong protection and continuity of digital services despite growing cyber risks.
The threat of data loss exists across all sectors in Nigeria, due to cyberattacks, hardware failures, human error, and natural disasters. To combat this, Galaxy Backbone has issued a call to action for public and private organisations to prioritise disaster recovery. They collaborate with clients to identify critical systems, conduct simulations, and refine response strategies to meet realistic recovery objectives.
In the words of Galaxy Backbone, the question is not if disruption will happen, but whether organisations are prepared to recover. Preparation, proactive planning, internal training, and continuous testing are key to ensuring this readiness. Galaxy Backbone's Tier III and Tier IV data centres in Abuja and Kano are part of Nigeria's defence against digital crises.
[1]: Nigeria Data Protection Regulation [2]: Nigeria First Policy [3]: Nigeria Data Protection Regulation Implementation Guidelines [4]: Nigeria Data Protection Regulation Enforcement Guidelines [5]: Nigeria Data Protection Regulation Compliance Guidelines
- By utilizing Nigeria's Tier III and Tier IV data centers, equipped with fault-tolerant technology and compliant with the nation's data protection directives, organizations in Nigeria can ensure that their environmental-science, technology, and overall business operations are safeguarded and can withstand potential disruptions.
- When disaster strikes, the collaborative effort between organizations and Galaxy Backbone, Nigeria's digital infrastructure provider, using strategic planning, rapid recovery technology, and science-based approaches, can minimize downtime, financial losses, and rebuild trust in the environmental-science and technological sectors, respectively.
