Cognizant to invest $25 mn for data centres in US, Europe

Chennai: As part of measures to expand its presence in North American and European markets, IT major Cognizant would initially invest $25 million to open additional data centres, the company said today.

“As part of the strategy, the company will initially invest $25 million to open additional data centres in Arizona and Virginia in the US, Amsterdam in The Netherlands and Slough in the UK”, a company statement said.

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These data centres, would further strengthen Cognizant’s infrastructure management capabilities and enable clients to maximise value in their IT environment, it said.

“Clients need to modernise their IT capabilities and bring consumer IT models to their users, and at the same time virtualise their infrastructure, rationalise costs and improve productivity through flexible, business models”, Cognizant IT Infrastructure Services division Senior Vice-President Robert Boles said.

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With the expanded cloud capabilities across our network of data centres, it would greatly enhance the ability to satisfy the client needs, he added.

He said the expanded capabilities help Cognizant to offer clients a fully integrated suite of business solutions, business process services, application development, data services and cloud infrastructure.

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