An online tour of Tata's facilities shows its worldwide infrastructure footprint. A new, 6,000-square-foot Kolkata facility is the latest addition.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — India-based global IT giant Tata Communications (www.tatacommunications.com) has opened a 6,000-square-foot Eastern India data center located in Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), making it the first commercially available tier III data center of its kind in the region.
According to its Monday announcement, Tata’s new data center is connected to its Tier I India network and is in the same facility as Tata’s core network infrastructure backbone, giving customers low-latency and reliable connectivity options throughout India and the world.
“The eastern India market is a relatively untapped market and we hope to act as an enabler for attractive investment opportunities in this region through our services,” Tata global managed solutions data center services vice president Abid Qadiri said in a statement. “Now customers will no longer need to invest in setting up captive data centers or locate it outside the region. We offer them the same stringent SLAs and quality assurance which they have come to expect from us.”
The facility is also built to Telecommunications Industry Association 942 standards, which specify a generic telecommunications cabling system for data centers and related IT facilities.
The new data center is part of a $2 billion investment plan over the next three years. With nearly 1 million square feet of data center space worldwide, and Indian facilities in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune, Tata is the largest and widest service provider in India.
An online tour of Tata’s facilities is available on its website.
Its recent activities outside India include it becoming an anchor tenant customer of Africa’s $650 million deep water cable system, SEACOM (www.seacom.mu), which opened two weeks ago. As an anchor tenant on the 9,320-mile, undersea cable system, Tata Communications is able to provide fully integrated network services from South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya to its networks in Europe, Asia and India.
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