Tata Communications opens datacenter in Pune

Thursday, 21 January 2010, 19:39 IST
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Bangalore: Tata Communications has unveiled a nearly 55,000 square-foot datacenter, its largest such facility to date in India, reports TMCnet.com. The datacenter is designed to offer collocation, managed hosting and storage, as well as CDN and managed security services. Located in Pune, the datacenter will reside on Tata Communications' Tier-1 IP backbone enabling it to provide high capacity Internet, MPLS and global Ethernet services. According to Sunil Joshi, President of Tata Communications, India, APAC and MENA regions, the center will provide a state-of-the-art infrastructure for supporting mission critical environments, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that clients' critical systems and applications are readily available while optimizing energy efficiency. "The center has enough resources to double its area to be able to continue to serve the future needs of our customers," he said. "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." According to TMCnet.com, the Pune datacenter will serve the hosting, storage and connectivity needs of large enterprises and SMBs 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. The datacenter operations and services are monitored and managed on-site and remotely, from its centralized Managed Services Operations Center (MSOC) on a 24x7x365 basis and by a team of highly experienced technical, communications and facilities staff.