February 25, 2009 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Indian telecommunications giant Tata Communications (www.tatacommunications.com) has revealed new details on its 21,400 square foot, energy efficient Tier-3 data center, built to support its customers’ mission-critical systems and applications.
Equipped with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features, according to TATA’s Wednesday announcement, the 21,400 square foot London 2 data center will go online in the second quarter of 2009.
Tata Communications said it has seen significant growth in the number of UK companies looking to outsource their hosted IT operations to save on costs. Companies were given another reason to outsource in May 2008, London’s electricity supplier put a moratorium on data center building in preparation for the 2012 Olympics to limit data centers’ toll on London’s already-taxed grid. The lack of power in London has driven many firms operating in the metropolitan area to move their IT services and into a managed service environment to lower their cost of ownership.
Earlier this week, Tata signed a turn-key data center lease with world’s largest wholesale data center provider, Digital Realty Trust (www.digitalrealtytrust.com), giving Tata a new presence at a Digital Realty Trust facility in London that formed the basis of London 2. The new data center is Tata’s third in the UK, which will bring the company’s total data center footprint in the region to over 50,000 square feet when it opens. The company owns and operates data centers on three continents totalling nearly one million square feet of space.
At London 2, located 25 miles from London, Tata will offer its full suite of data center services including colocation, managed hosting and managed storage services, in addition to related and complementary value-added services. The company’s data center operations and services are monitored and managed on-site and remotely, from its centralized managed services operations center on a 24x7x365 basis and by a team of highly experienced technical, communications and facilities staff.
“Tata Communications has seen a rapid increase in demand for managed IT infrastructure services in the EMEA region, driven in part by rationalising IT budgets and companies looking to outsource their data center operations and achieve greater cost and resource efficiencies,” Tata data center services vice president Abid Qadiri said in a statement. “As the availability of highly secure Tier-3 data center space is limited, we are pleased to bring this state-of-the-art facility to the market.”
Part of Tata’s $2 billion plan to fuel global expansion, the London data center investment follows an announcement earlier in the month when Tata unveiled plans to invest $180 million in the development of data center and associated services in Singapore, scheduled to open in 2010.
