Cognizant to invest $25 mn in new data centres

BANGALORE, INDIA: Cognizant announced plans to expand its data centre footprint in North America and Europe, and deploy an enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure.

As part of the strategy, Cognizant will initially invest $25 million to open additional data centres in Arizona (US), Virginia (US), Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and Slough (UK).

These data centres, coupled with an enterprise-class multi-tenant cloud platform, will further strengthen the company's infrastructure management capabilities, says a release.

Cognizant's cloud infrastructure platform broadens the company's overall cloud services portfolio, which includes cloud assessment, architecture and design consulting, cloud system integration, and cloud management services across private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions. These services are powered by Cloud360, Cognizant's cloud management solution.

"Clients need to modernize their IT capabilities and bring consumer IT models to their users, and at the same time virtualize their infrastructure, rationalize costs, and improve productivity through flexible, as-a-service business models," said Robert Boles, Senior Vice President of Cognizant's IT Infrastructure Services practice. "With our expanded cloud capabilities across our network of data centers, we can greatly enhance our ability to fulfill this growing client need."