3i Infotech launches IDC in Chennai

NEW DELHI: 3i Infotech, provider of IT solutions and software product company, has announced the launch of its first International Data Center (IDC), in Chennai, which will offer managed hosting services for application and disaster recovery solutions.

As part of its strong foray in the $41.5 billion managed services market, 3i Infotech announced the launch of its Remote IT Infrastructure Management Services through its Global Network and Security Operations Center (GNSOC).

The company is also setting up mini centers of excellence (COEs) for Operating Systems: Microsoft, Red Hat Linux, AIX, Solaris, Databases : Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, DB2, Messaging Solutions and IT Security Labs for Ethical Hacking and Vulnerability Assessments and niche Application Infrastructure solutions, 3i Infotech said in a statement.

Located in 3i Infotech’s Chennai facility, the IDC, GNSOC and COEs will be jointly spread over 25,000 sq. ft area. Out of this, the IDC, which conforms to the Tier III International Data Standard, will alone occupy a total of 6000 sq. ft area, with all access controls, CCTV, UPS, Precision AC along with Rack and cage facility.

The center will provide secure data center hosting facilities for its clientele in India and across the globe. The GNSOC will provide customers with Remote IT Infrastructure monitoring and management services with a 24/7 IT helpdesk. With an operating area for around 75 people, the remote infrastructure set up is spread across 3000 sq. ft area.

Hari Padmanabhan, deputy managing director, 3i Infotech, said “With the inauguration of our International Data Centre today, 3i Infotech has dramatically shifted its ability to service such customers to provide them a single point business execution outsourcing solution.“

“With our domain specific products positioned as the core IT solution, the infrastructure being managed by us, hosted applications provided out of our data center and linked to our back-end BPO services, the business manager can today get a single point variable cost solution on service levels not available else where. This unique end-to-end single point business execution outsourcing proposition, will give us a strategic advantage in the market,” he added.