Company Press Release:
Tata Communications launches its Largest Indian data centre at Pune
Planning to invest upto Rs 500 crore in three years
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New Delhi, January 20th 2010: Tata Communications, today unveiled its largest data center in the country. Spread across nearly 55,000 net square feet, the data center would offer services including Co-location, Managed Hosting & Storage and a suite of complementary services including Managed Security Services and CDN services. The Pune IDC will reside on Tata Communications’ Tier-1 IP backbone enabling it to provide high capacity Internet, MPLS and global Ethernet services.
“We are very pleased to announce the availability of the Pune IDC for our domestic and global customers. The Centre will provide a state-of-the-art infrastructure for supporting mission critical environments, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that our client’s critical systems and applications are readily available while optimizing energy efficiency. |
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Centre has enough resources to double its area to be able to continue to
serve the future needs of our customers. The launch of this datacenter is a
demonstration of Tata Communications commitment to its India and
International customers to support their business needs while providing
end-to-end solution for connectivity, storage and hosting capabilities,”
said Mr. Sunil Joshi– President, India, and
APAC & MENA Regions at Tata Communications Limited.
The Pune data center will serve the hosting, storage and connectivity needs of large enterprises and Small and Medium Business in the region, while also serving as a disaster recovery facility for enterprises that are present in other key business centers across India or nearby countries.
Tata Communications has already invested around Rs 125 crore in the Pune data center and intends to further investment over the next three years to Rs 500 crore based on market demand.
Tata Communications is the largest player in the data center business in India with 42 facilities worldwide spread over nearly 1 million square feet Tata Communications is uniquely positioned to offer services to its customers by virtue of a pan India presence with facilities in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Kolkata and international facilities in Singapore, UK, and USA.
The data centre operations and services are monitored and managed on-site and remotely, from its centralized Managed Services Operations Centre (MSOC) on a 24x7x365 basis and by a team of highly experienced technical, communications and facilities staff.
About Tata Communications
Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. With a leadership position in emerging markets, Tata Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers. The Tata Global Network includes one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly 1 million square feet of data center and collocation space worldwide. Tata Communications’ depth and breadth of reach in emerging markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services, leadership in global international voice, and strategic investments in operators in South Africa (Neotel), Sri Lanka (Tata Communications Lanka Limited), Nepal (United Telecom Limited), and subject to approval by the Chinese government, China (China Enterprise Communications) Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL)