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Exclusive: A fire incident at Zenith Bank’s primary data centre is causing a network downtime
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Zenith Bank, Nigeria’s biggest bank by market capitalisation, is experiencing a total infrastructure downtime after a fire at the company’s primary data centre. The downtime affects Zenith Bank’s services, leaving millions of customers in the lurch. At one of the bank’s branches, a security official could be heard telling a customer that the network was down. The security official did not provide further information.
Zenith Bank, Nigeria's largest bank, is experiencing a total infrastructure downtime due to a fire at its primary data centre. The incident occurred after a backup power system caught fire, triggering a power cut to the data centre. Zenith Bank is attempting to switch to its disaster recovery infrastructure to get all services up and running, but delays are expected as not all banking services were running in an active-active deployment. The bank has not shared any information with customers on social media channels or acknowledged that it is experiencing a downtime. The incident highlights the need for moving banking infrastructure to the cloud to prevent day-long downtimes when unexpected incidents happen.
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