MTS India Partners With IBM

IBM has entered into an IT services agreement with MTS India, the mobile telephony services brand of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL), a joint venture company between Sistema of Russia and Shyam Group of India. As part of the agreement, IBM will design and build two green data centres – one each in Chennai and Gurgaon. The move is integral to supporting SSTL’s pan-India expansion plans for offering telephony services. The green data centres will help SSTL achieve 20 percent energy savings.

Vsevolod Rozanov, president and CEO, Sistema Shyam TeleServices, said, “As a global telecom player with 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 player like IBM to make our IT infrastructure environment friendly.”

The data centre 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 Centre (NOC) to help the SSTL team monitor and manage applications and network in a 24/7 environment. SSTL is currently in an expansion phase with plans to launch Pan-India telecom services in the coming months. The scalability and dynamic nature of the solution being provided by IBM will ensure that SSTL’s expansion plan is supported by a resilient and green IT infrastructure.

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