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BRILLIANTCLOUD

BrilliantCloud — Managed Cloud

Virtual machines, Kubernetes, backup and disaster recovery hosted in Nigeria and watched around the clock from our Kano network operations centre — with the bill in Naira and no egress surprises.

What BrilliantCloud is

BrilliantCloud is our managed cloud service: virtual machines and managed Kubernetes running on infrastructure we own in Kano, with a disaster-recovery region in Abuja, monitored 24 hours a day from our network operations centre and billed in Naira. It is bought by banks and microfinance institutions, state governments and agencies, hospitals, telecommunications operators and mid-sized private firms that want cloud economics without the foreign-currency exposure, the latency, or the data-residency argument with their regulator.

The problem it solves is threefold. First, cost predictability: a dollar-denominated bill with metered egress is impossible to budget against a Naira revenue line, and clients regularly find that data transfer charges exceed compute. Second, residency: a growing number of Nigerian regulators and internal policies require that customer, patient or citizen data remain physically in the country, and an offshore region with a Nigerian billing address does not satisfy that. Third, capability: most organisations do not want to hire and retain the Kubernetes, backup and security engineers a serious platform needs.

BrilliantCloud answers all three. Hosting is physically in Nigeria and we will say exactly which building your data is in. Pricing is in Naira, published, and inbound and outbound transfer is unmetered on all standard plans. And the service is managed, not merely rented: patching, monitoring, backup verification, capacity planning, cost review and incident response are done by our engineers, of whom 96 hold current vendor certifications, under an information-security management system certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022.

For clients with existing on-premises estates or workloads already in AWS or Azure — we are an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and a Microsoft Solutions Partner — we build hybrid connectivity rather than insisting on a wholesale migration you did not ask for. The common pattern is regulated Nigerian data held in BrilliantCloud, elastic or globally distributed workloads left offshore, and a private link between the two that we build, monitor and operate on your behalf.

What the service covers

Eight managed capabilities, delivered by our infrastructure and managed services practices from Kano, Abuja and Lagos.

Managed Virtual Machines

Compute

Provisioned, hardened and patched Linux and Windows instances with resizing on request, snapshot management, and console access, on enterprise hardware with redundant power and cooling.

Managed Kubernetes

Containers

Production clusters with control-plane management, worker node scaling, ingress, certificate automation and a private registry, with version upgrades planned, tested and executed by our engineers inside your agreed change window.

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Resilience

Scheduled encrypted backups with retention you set, cross-site replication between Kano and Abuja, documented recovery objectives, and quarterly restore tests we run and report on.

24/7 Monitoring

Kano NOC

Continuous monitoring of availability, capacity, performance and security events from our network operations centre, with defined escalation paths and a duty engineer on call at all times.

Patching & Hardening

Security

Operating system and platform patching on an agreed monthly cycle, with emergency out-of-band patching for critical vulnerabilities, plus baseline hardening, configuration drift detection and quarterly vulnerability scanning.

Cost Optimisation

Economics

Monthly review of utilisation against spend, written right-sizing recommendations, identification of idle and orphaned resources, and reserved-capacity options that cut the annual bill substantially for steady predictable workloads.

Hybrid Connectivity

Integration

Site-to-site VPN or dedicated private circuits linking your premises, BrilliantCloud and the public clouds you retain, with routing, firewalling, bandwidth and failover managed as part of the service.

In-Country Hosting

Residency

All data physically resident in Nigeria across the Kano primary and Abuja recovery sites, with written confirmation of location for your regulator and no replication abroad.

BrilliantCloud in numbers

12,000+

Managed endpoints

Under active service

99.95%

Uptime attainment

Managed services, FY2025

2

Nigerian regions

Kano primary, Abuja recovery

96

Certified engineers

Microsoft, Cisco, AWS, Fortinet

Price list

Published Naira pricing, billed monthly in arrears. Inbound and outbound data transfer is unmetered on all standard plans. Prices exclude VAT. Reserved twelve-month commitments attract a 20 per cent discount.

Resource Specification Unit Monthly price
Compute — Small 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD Per instance ₦42,000
Compute — Medium 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD Per instance ₦118,000
Compute — Large 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, 400 GB SSD Per instance ₦236,000
Compute — Extra Large 16 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, 800 GB SSD Per instance ₦458,000
Managed Kubernetes Control plane, ingress, registry, upgrades Per cluster ₦295,000
Block storage — SSD Replicated, snapshot-capable Per 100 GB ₦9,500
Object storage S3-compatible, unmetered transfer Per 1 TB ₦47,000
Backup service Encrypted, 30-day retention, restore tests Per 500 GB protected ₦31,000
Disaster recovery Cross-site replication to Abuja, 4-hour RTO Per protected instance ₦68,000
Managed service wrap Patching, monitoring, incident response, cost review Per instance or cluster ₦38,000

Included in every plan

No hidden lines and no metered surprises at the end of the month.

  • Unmetered inbound and outbound data transfer
  • Billing in Naira, with no foreign-exchange exposure
  • 24/7 monitoring from the Kano network operations centre
  • Operating system and platform patching on an agreed cycle
  • Encrypted backups with quarterly restore testing and a written report
  • Written confirmation of physical data location for your regulator
  • Monthly service report on availability, incidents and utilisation
  • Cost optimisation review with right-sizing recommendations
  • Emergency out-of-band patching for critical vulnerabilities
  • Migration assistance for the first ten workloads at no charge

How we onboard you

A first production workload usually runs in BrilliantCloud within three to six weeks of the workshop, and a full estate migration is phased over three to nine months.

1

Requirements workshop

Two to three days assessing your current estate, application dependencies, recovery objectives, regulatory constraints and current spend. We produce a written migration plan with a workload-by-workload sequence.

2

Configuration

We build your tenancy, network segmentation, firewall policy, identity integration, backup schedules and monitoring thresholds, and agree the change window and escalation contacts before anything moves.

3

Data migration

Workloads are replicated to BrilliantCloud and validated while the originals keep running. Large datasets are seeded by physical transfer from Kano, Abuja or Lagos where the link would take too long.

4

Integration

Hybrid connectivity is established to your premises and to any public cloud you retain, DNS and certificates are prepared, and monitoring is wired into your own service desk if you operate one.

5

Training

Your infrastructure team is trained on the tenancy portal, change request process, backup and restore procedures, and the escalation path. Runbooks are handed over in writing rather than described verbally.

6

Pilot

One non-critical production workload runs live for two to four weeks while performance, backup and failover are proven, including at least one deliberate restore test that you witness.

7

Go-live

Remaining workloads cut over in the agreed sequence during approved change windows, each with a tested rollback. Legacy infrastructure is kept warm for an agreed period before decommissioning.

8

Hypercare

Ninety days of enhanced support with daily health reviews for the first fortnight, weekly thereafter, a first cost optimisation review at day sixty, and formal transition to steady-state managed service.

Questions buyers ask

Exactly where is our data held?
Primary hosting is in our facility in Kano, with the disaster-recovery copy in Abuja. Both are inside Nigeria and both are ours to inspect, which means we can arrange a site visit for your risk officer. Nothing is replicated outside the country on any standard plan, and we provide written confirmation of physical location for your regulator or internal audit.
Does using BrilliantCloud help with NDPA compliance?
It removes the hardest part of the argument, which is cross-border transfer. Data stays in Nigeria, we act as your data processor under a signed data-processing agreement, access is controlled and logged, and our information-security management system is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022. We will provide the statement of applicability and supporting evidence for your compliance file, and assist with your data-protection impact assessment.
What happens to our systems when the internet link fails?
Your workloads keep running in our data centre; what fails is your access to them. We therefore design connectivity properly: dual links from different providers into your premises, and for critical sites a wireless or satellite backup path. For applications that must survive total isolation, a hybrid design keeps a local instance in your building that synchronises with the cloud when the link returns.
Can we keep some workloads in AWS or Azure, or on our own servers?
Yes, and most clients do. We are an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and a Microsoft Solutions Partner, and we build and operate the private connectivity between your premises, BrilliantCloud and the public clouds. The usual pattern places regulated Nigerian data with us and keeps globally distributed or highly elastic workloads offshore.
What are the support hours and service levels?
Monitoring and incident response are 24 hours a day, every day, from the Kano network operations centre, reachable on +234 803 047 9666. The standard availability commitment is 99.9 per cent monthly with service credits, against an attained 99.95 per cent across managed services in FY2025. Priority-one incidents carry a 15-minute response and a two-hour restoration target, escalating to the Director, Managed Services.
How do we get our systems and data out if we leave?
There is no exit fee and no egress charge. On termination we provide machine images, database dumps and object storage contents in standard formats, over the network or on physical media, and we will work with your successor provider for ninety days. Because the platform is built on standard virtualisation and Kubernetes, workloads move without re-engineering. Nothing about the design is intended to trap you.
Is training for our own engineers included?
Yes. Onboarding includes training for your infrastructure team on the tenancy portal, change process, backup and restore, and escalation, together with written runbooks. Deeper certified programmes in cloud engineering, Kubernetes and information security are delivered by our ICT Training Academy in Kano, Abuja and Lagos and can be added to the contract.

Free 30-day sandbox tenancy

We will provision a sandbox tenancy — two medium instances, 500 GB of storage and a backup schedule — free for thirty days, so your engineers can test a real workload before committing to anything. Migration assistance for your first ten workloads is included at no charge when you proceed. Write to [email protected] or call +234 802 913 8013.

Get your cloud bill in Naira and your data in Nigeria

Send us your current estate or your last three cloud invoices and we will return a written comparison, a migration plan and a fixed monthly figure.

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