Tata Communications Announces Expansion of Data Centre Services With Launch of
Tier-3 Data Centre in EMEA Market
LONDON, Feb 25 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
- Demand for UK Data Centre Services Soars as Enterprises Look to Reduce
Costs Worldwide
Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications,
announces it plans for London 2, a Tier-3 data centre, that will provide a
state-of-the-art environment for supporting mission critical infrastructures,
with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to
ensure that Tata Communications client's critical systems and applications
are readily available while optimizing energy efficiency. The 21,400 square
foot London 2 data centre will be ready for service during the second quarter
of 2009.
Tata Communications has seen a dramatic growth in the number
of UK companies looking to outsource their hosted IT operations as they look
to rationalise costs and free up capital. Increasingly, the lack of power in
the City of London has seen many firms seek to move operations outside the
M25 and into a managed service environment to lower their cost of ownership,
improve performance and reduce downtime of their IT investment. Moreover, a
shift to an Opex-based hosting model by selectively outsourcing their IT
infrastructure to an experienced services provider such as Tata
Communications can achieve rapid cost savings.
Tata Communications will offer its full suite of data centre
services including colocation, managed hosting and managed storage services,
in addition to related and complementary value-added services. The company's
data centre operations and services are monitored and managed on-site and
remotely, from its centralized Managed Services Operations Centre (MSOC) on a
24x7x365 basis and by a team of highly experienced technical, communications
and facilities staff. Tata Communications is ISO/IEC 14001, 20000 and 27001
certified for its Global Managed Services Operations in the areas of Managed
Hosting, Managed Storage Services and Hosted Messaging Services. The London 2
data centre will reside on Tata Communications Tier-1 IP backbone from which
it can provide high capacity Internet, MPLS and Ethernet services globally.
"Tata Communications has seen a rapid increase in demand for
managed IT infrastructure services in the EMEA region, driven in part by
rationalising IT budgets and companies looking to outsource their data centre
operations and achieve greater cost and resource efficiencies," said Abid
Qadiri, Vice President of Data Centre Services for Tata Communications. "As
the availability of highly secure Tier-3 data centre space is limited, we are
pleased to bring this state-of-the-art facility to the market."
Located 25 miles from London, the highly secure data centre
facility was built by Digital Realty Trust, the world's largest wholesale
data centre provider, and contains two individually segregated, maintainable
data halls that receive six megawatts of power from diversely routed
supplies. As Tata Communications third data centre opened in the UK, London 2
brings the company's total data centre footprint in the region to over 50,000
square feet. The company owns and operates data centres on three continents
totalling nearly one million square feet of space.
On February 12, Tata Communications' announced plans to invest
USD $180 million in development of data centre and associated services in
Singapore,
(http://www.tatacommunications.com/news/release-view.asp?d=20090212-
investment) scheduled to open in 2010. (Due to the length of this URL, it may
be necessary to copy and paste this hyperlink into your Internet browser's
URL address field. Remove the space if one exists.) The addition of London 2
and the Singapore data centre are part of the global expansion to address
demands of enterprise customers worldwide, while supporting Tata
Communications' commitment to invest more than $2 billion to further fuel
global expansion plans.
For further information on Tata Communications Data Centre Solutions and
For more information on London 2 visit
About Tata Communications
Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group,
is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. The emerging
markets communications leader leverages its advanced solutions capabilities
and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver
managed solutions to multi-national and Indian enterprises, service providers
and Indian consumers.
Tata Communications' range of services include transmission,
IP, converged voice, mobility, managed network connectivity, hosting and
storage, managed security, managed collaboration and business transformation
for global enterprises and service providers, as well as Internet, retail
broadband and content services for Indian consumers. The Tata Global Network
encompasses one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a
Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 300
Pops, and more than 1 million square feet of data centre and colocation
facilities.
Tata Communications' unique emerging market depth and breadth
of reach includes a national fiber backbone network and access to network in
over 60 cities and 125 Pops in India, strategic investments in South African
converged services operator, Neotel, Sri Lanka and Nepal and, subject to
fulfilment of conditions precedent, a 50% ownership in China Enterprise
Communications (CEC) providing full country VPN coverage in China.
Servicing customers from its offices in over 80 cities in 40
countries, Tata Communications is the number one global international
wholesale voice operator and number one provider of international long
distance, enterprise data and Internet services in India, the Company was
named "Best Wholesale Carrier" at the World Communications Awards in 2006,
"Best Pan-Asian Wholesale Provider" at the 2006 and 2007 Capacity Magazine
Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards and was awarded "Best Progress in
Emerging Markets" at the 2008 Mobile Communication Awards.
Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock
Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on
the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL)
Forward-looking and cautionary statements
Certain words and statements in this release concerning Tata
Communications and its prospects, and other statements, including those
relating to Tata Communications' expected financial position, business
strategy, the future development of Tata Communications' operations, and the
general economy in India, are forward-looking statements. Such statements
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including
financial, regulatory and environmental, as well as those relating to
industry growth and trend projections, which may cause actual results,
performance or achievements of Tata Communications, or industry results, to
differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. The important factors that could cause actual results,
performance or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking
statements include, among others, failure to increase the volume of traffic
on Tata Communications' network; failure to develop new products and services
that meet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; failure to
successfully complete commercial testing of new technology and information
systems to support new products and services, including voice transmission
services; failure to stabilize or reduce the rate of price compression on
certain of the company's communications services; failure to integrate
strategic acquisitions and changes in government policies or regulations of
India and, in particular, changes relating to the administration of Tata
Communications' industry; and, in general, the economic, business and credit
conditions in India. Additional factors that could cause actual results,
performance or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking
statements, many of which are not in Tata Communications' control, include,
but are not limited to, those risk factors discussed in Tata Communications'
various filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or
alter its forward-looking statements.
Media Contacts:
Andrew Faupel
Tata Communications
+44(0)7833-482329
andrew.faupel@tatacommunications.com
Janice Goveas
Tata Communications
+91-92233-94575
janice.goveas@tatacommunications.com
Media Agency
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Source: Tata Communications Limited
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