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Follow UsBANGALORE, INDIA: AXA Technologies Services, a fully-owned AXA Group subsidiary, is in the process of setting up a new data center in Singapore. The company would invest around Euro 20 million in setting up a dual center, which would incorporate the latest technologies and comply to green standards.
Imran Ali, regional head Asia Pacific, AXA Technology Service, said, “We AXA Group companies deal with IT and telecommunications infrastructure management services. Since we are in the process of selling our Australia business, we are moving the data center from Melbourne to Singapore. So in the next 18-24 months, we are shifting all the platform that are hosted in Melbourne. We are looking for partners who can host in their premises as we do plan to spend in building a data center from scratch.”
The company is evaluating different technologies like virtualization, green computing.
According to him, AXA Technology Services looks at 95 per cent of the in-house demand of AXA Group and has the only client for their business.
He said, “We have so much responsibility within AXA that we do not look for other client. We serve around 95 per cent of their requirements, while the remaining comes from within the IT department of the Group. Like in Thailand we provide some services.”
AXA Technology services, unlike the cases of Citigroup or other global banks, continues to run under AXA as an independent technology firm, and the global firm does not seem to dissolve it out as a separate unit.
He said, “A lot of other companies were separated from their parent firms to bring cost-savings and technology advancements. For AXA TS next wave of optimization is consolidation, making the global team work as one centrally monitored team. We are bringing further cost-saving by outsourcing a few jobs to the local team in India.”
According to reports, around 2006, AXA Tech partnered with PlateSpin to automate the transition between dedicated physical servers and a virtual infrastructure in their Melbourne data center.