 "Tulip Telecom Unveils Asia's Largest, World's Third Largest DC In Bengaluru")
Tulip Data Center Services Pvt Ltd (Tulip), a 100% owned subsidiary of Tulip Telecom Ltd, India’s leading Enterprise Data Services provider today announced the commercial launch of its Bengaluru Datacentre, Tulip Data City (TDC), which is Asia’s largest and the world’s third largest Datacentre. Mr Sachin Pilot, Hon’ble Minister of State for Communication and IT inaugurated this world-class Datacentre.
The Tulip Data City is a multi-tiered facility built to tier 4 and tier 3 standards. Large hosted Datacentre facilities such as this one are multi-tenanted, and because of the scale, are far more efficient than smaller facilities, therefore saving huge amounts of power. Being the most ‘green’ and the most power efficient datacentre in India, the facility is expected to save close to 35 MW power at full capacity. This because of an extremely high Power Utilisation Efficiency of around 1.5 compared to the industry average of over 2.
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Lt Col HS Bedi, Chairman & Managing Director, Tulip Telecom Ltd. said, “This datacentre by Tulip Telecom is a testimony to our focus on constant innovation and commitment towards adopting new technologies. Large enterprises and global leaders are partnering with Tulip progressively through this datacentre as they see cost optimisation and complete security of their mission critical data. We believe that with this state of the art Datacentre facility, our customers are assured that Tulip will fulfill their needs pertaining to data management and date security. The launch of this world class facility is aligned with our vision to become one of the largest players in the data services space globally. With this, the datacentre is now a completely independent operational subsidiary with a strong financial backbone , operational infrastructure and a robust organisation”
Sachin Pilot, Hon’ble Minister of State for Communication and IT said “I am happy to be a part of the inauguration of this technology marvel which is the third largest datacentre in the world. Datacentres are at the heart of today’s digital revolution and enable not enterprise services but also many Government to Citizen services. It is a matter of pride that India today boasts of a world class Datacentre, which is the largest outside of the US.” -
To fulfill the expected demand towards this huge potential, Tulip Telecom has built this datacentre offering the latest in world class technologies. It is spread across 0.9 million sq.ft. A modern day fortress, this facility has the capacity to house upto 12,000 racks, backed by up to 100 MW of Power. This facility is equipped with an Integrated Building Management Systems, which ensures management of every component of the data centre to include power, cooling, security and air-conditioning. Seating space for upto 1500 people, which will enable enterprises to provide immediate support to their equipment hosted here. The data centre being modular, will continue to be expanded by Tulip over the next three years.
The Tulip Datacentre is a technology marvel built by the company in Tulip’s journey from being an enterprise data connectivity provider to becoming the leading enterprise data services provider. To make this state of the art Datacentre facility Tulip teamed with industry leaders like IBM, HP, Cisco, EMC, Schneider Electric, Emerson, Panduit and Corning among others to build the facility. Schnabel of Germany was the design review consultant for the datacentre. This datacentre is built to meet the LEED Gold Standards.
Tulip’s modular datacentre is fully capable of delivering cloud solutions in order to cater to the always-changing data and connectivity needs of today’s enterprises and the government sector. The facility will serve the hosting, co-location, storage and bandwidth needs of large, small and medium businesses in the region, while also serving as a disaster recovery facility for enterprises across the world.
Tulip Telecom has been able to set the highest service delivery standards in datacentre services with its mature service delivery practices and security standards. The company already has four operational datacentres (two in Mumbai, and one each in Delhi and Bengaluru) with ISO 20000-1 & ISO 27001 certifications to ensure reliable and high quality service delivery.