MTS India partners with IBM

NEW DELHI, INDIA: IBM announced that it has entered into an IT services agreement with MTS India, the mobile telephony services brand of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL).

As part of the agreement, IBM will design and build two green data centers—in Chennai and Gurgaon. The move is to support SSTL’s pan-India expansion plans for offering telephony services. The green data centers will help SSTL achieve 20 percent energy savings.

Speaking on the need to adopt energy-efficient IT infrastructure in an enterprise, Vsevolod Rozanov, President and CEO, Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd said, “As a global telecom player with ambitious expansion plans for the Indian market, we are aware of the advantage of adopting energy-efficient operational measures and in the process will work proactively to reduce global energy emissions. We are glad to partner with a technology leader like IBM in making our IT infrastructure eco-friendly.”

The data center solution being deployed by IBM provides the facility to scale power and cooling automatically depending on the load. IBM will also build a Network Operations Center (NOC) to help the SSTL team monitor and manage applications and network in a 24x7 environment. SSTL is currently in an expansion phase with plans to launch Pan-India telecom services in the coming months.

Shanker Annaswamy, MD, IBM said, “IBM’s association with Sistema Shyam TeleServices is aimed at helping our client take advantage of leading IT infrastructure solutions and assets that IBM has built especially for telecom companies. Moreover, SSTL’s adoption of green and energy-efficient technologies can help them optimize their resources while serving their growing customer base across India."

The Chennai site will serve as the main data center for SSTL, while the data center in Gurgaon will serve as the disaster recovery site. IBM has deployed cooling solution at these data centers, which will result in substantial operational savings for SSTL.