ITI Sets Up Data Centre With Trimax In Bangalore

Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) has set up a next-generation data centre at its main facility on the outskirts of Bangalore in collaboration with the Mumbai-based IT infrastructure and services firm Trimax Data Centre Services.

The Rs 77 crore (Rs.770 million) data centre, which will provide customer-centric services to the government and private enterprises, was unveiled by telecom secretary and telecom commission chairman Siddhartha Behura in Doorvaninagar campus, about 20 km from Bangalore here.

The 50-seater ITI data centre will offer a range of services, including co-location services, hosting services and managed services such as server management, network management and security management.

“The prime business focus of the data centre will be value-added services such as messaging solutions, video conferencing and remote infrastructure management,” ITI chairman and managing director S K Chatterjee said.

As per the joint agreement, 82 percent of the revenue generated by the data centre will be credited with Trimax, while the rest will accrue to ITI.

ITI is in final discussions with the state-run RailTel Corporation of India, New Delhi; Karnataka Police Housing, Bangalore; Business Intelligent Technologies, Bangalore; Glodyne, Mumbai; and Madhucon, Hyderabad; to engage them as customers for data centre services.

“We are targeting Rs 50 crore in the first year (2009-10) of operations. As part of our diversifying strategy, we plan to set up two more data centres at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and Palakkad in north Kerala,” Chatterjee said.

Going forward, the loss-making ITI plans to offer pan-India data centre services by networking the new centre and the proposed centres in other locations across the country.

Trimax chairman Surya Prakash Madrecha said an additional Rs143 crore would be invested in the data centre during the second phase of expansion by this year-end. (IANS)