Netmagic, an NTT Communications company has today announced the launch of its new data centre in Electronic City, Bangalore. This tier III certified data centre is spread over 100,000 sq. ft. area and was jointly developed and built by Mumbai based Netmagic and NTT Communications – part of Japanese NTT Group in short 15 months duration. It has a capacity of 1500 racks however presently 250 racks are already installed in the data centre.
“This is a moment of pride for us, as this new data centre will give Indian and multi-national enterprises an opportunity to experience the state-of-the-art data centres that NTT Communications operates across the world,” said Akira Arima, President and CEO, NTT Communications.
According to Arima, the added advantage of Netmagic’s excellence in IT infrastructure management and service delivery in the Indian enterprise space, gives this data centre the capability of becoming the new benchmark for data centre in India.
“This facility is part of our Global Cloud Vision to become a genuine global ICT partner for enterprises, providing seamless ICT solutions such as networks, data centres and applications, thereby capitalizing on the trend of enterprises’ migrating their on-premise systems to the cloud,” added Arima.
According to Sharad Sanghi, MD and CEO, Netmagic, Bangalore offers a strong growth potential and a supply-constrained market, making this the most opportune moment to launch the new data centre.
“Given the large concentration of data intensive activities in Bangalore, our objective is to accommodate enterprises’ demand to house their critical IT infrastructure closer to them, as well as ensure that our data centers have the scalability to meet their growing needs, while offering highly efficient services at the same time,” said Sanghi.
This new facility also marks the formal launch of the Nexcenter brand of data centre services in India. Under this brand, NTT Communications offers leading-edge data centre services across the globe. In India, these services are offered through all 8 Netmagic data centres.
The data centre will deliver Netmagic’s entire suite of services including managed co-location, dedicated hosting, cloud computing, IT infrastructure monitoring and management and security. It will provide enterprises customizable hosting space with high power and cooling densities and offer not only individual racks, but also highly secure cages and enclosed server rooms to meet the requirements of large global enterprises.
Since Bangalore is least prone to natural calamities it makes ideal for large enterprises, across India and other geographies to establish their disaster recovery and business continuity sites. This second data centre of Netmagic in Bangalore and company will add one more data centre in Mumbai.