Wipro Infotech forays into data centre space

BANGALORE, INDIA: Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a provider of IT and business transformation services, announced on Tuesday the launch of its enterprise data centres.

This new initiative, which complements the existing IT service offerings, provides end-to-end Data Centre Lifecycle Management Services to enterprise customers, said a press release.

The first data centre at Mysore is completely sold out while the commissioning of the data centre in Greater Noida in UP is currently underway and likely to be launched soon.

The third data centre at Pune is being commissioned to accommodate more customers, said Wipro. The Wipro Enterprise Data Centres (WEDC) would also be the platform for launching Wipro's cloud computing services for the India and Middle East markets, for customers to avail services on a pay-per-use model.

Wipro said that both data centre life cycle management services and cloud computing services would offer a high level of flexibility to customers with respect to service delivery and costs.

Commenting on the launch Anand Sankaran, senior vice president and business head, India & Middle East, Wipro, said that Wipro decided to launch the enterprise data centre to complete its portfolio of offerings.

“Enterprise customers today are seeking services beyond simple hosting and co-location, and this is a very strategic move by us and positions us uniquely to cater to the lifecycle needs of enterprises as a single face," he said.

IT infrastructure and applications that are deployed at WEDC will be managed from Wipro's Global Service Management Center (GSMC) in Mysore, said the release.

Wipro said it has plans to achieve a pan-India presence for its data centres and expand this service to offer more value-added services to clients.