BANGALORE, INDIA: Data services provider Tulip Data Center Services Pvt Ltd (Tulip), a 100 per cent owned subsidiary of Tulip Telecom Ltd, announced the launch of Tulip Data City (TDC).

The Tulip Data City is a multi-tenanted, and multi-tiered data centre facility built to tier 4 and tier 3 standards.

Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communication and IT inaugurated TDC, touted to be Asia’s largest and the world’s third largest data centre.

Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communication and IT, said: “Data centres are at the heart of today’s digital revolution and enable not enterprise services, but also many government to citizen services. It is a matter of pride that India today boasts of a world class data centre, which is the largest outside of the US.”  -

The facility is expected to save close to 35 MW power at full capacity and touts power utilization efficiency (PUE) of around 1.5 compared to the industry average of over 2.

The company has been implementing aggressive sales and marketing programme to achieve its target of booking 25 per cent capacity by the end of FY12

Lt Col HS Bedi, chairman & MD, Tulip Telecom Ltd. said, “The launch of this world class facility is aligned with our vision to become one of the largest players in the data services space globally. With this, the data center is now a completely independent operational subsidiary with a strong financial backbone , operational infrastructure and a robust organization” 

It is spread across 0.9 million sq.ft and has the capacity to house upto 12,000 racks, backed by up to 100 MW of power. This facility is equipped with an Integrated Building Management Systems, which ensures management of every component of the data centre to include power, cooling, security and air-conditioning. Seating space for upto 1,500 people, which will enable enterprises to provide support to equipment hosted here. The data centre being modular, will continue to be expanded by Tulip over the next three years.

Tulip teamed with IBM, HP, Cisco, EMC, Schneider Electric, Emerson, Panduit and Corning among others to build the facility. Schnabel of Germany was the design review consultant for the data centre. This data center is built to meet the LEED Gold Standards.

Analysts forecast that the hosted data centre market is expected to witness the highest CAGR of 18.4 per cent in 2011 through 2016. India's data centre market for raised floor space has been growing at a healthy 25 per cent to 30 per cent annual rate in the last three years.

Going forward, managed and cloud services will gain prominence in the coming three-four years. Cloud, primarily Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), will grow at 35-40 per cent and become an integral part of Data Center business.

The company already has four operational data centres (two in Mumbai, and one each in Delhi and Bangalore) with ISO 20000-1 & ISO 27001 certifications.