Kapil Sibal inaugurates BSNL Data Centers

NEW DELHI: State-run
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd
(BSNL) and Dimension
Data jointly announced on
Monday the ‘go live’ of
BSNL Internet Data Centers
(IDCs).
BSNL will offer managed
colocation, managed hosting
and cloud services through
these IDCs built, operated
and managed by Dimension
Data for BSNL.
The six centers are located
at Mumbai, Faridabad, Ahmadabad,
Jaipur, Ludhiana
and Ghaziabad. These are
Tier III level data centers
certifi ed by internationally
reputed Uptime Institute of
the US.
“These IDCs will enhance
BSNL’s comprehensive
service portfolio to meet
the communications and IT
needs of large medium as
well as small business enterprises
in India,” Communications
and Information
Technology Minister Kapil
Sibal said while inaugurating
these centers.
It will facilitate various
organisations to quickly
induct IT enabled services
within their organizations
without the hassles of setting
up and maintaining
their own data centers, he
added.
Commenting on the activation
of the IDCs, BSNL
CMD R K Upadhyay said,
“With the launch of our
IDCs, we can now offer
secure hosted services and
cloud services to support
various government initiatives
as well as to our enterprise
clients.” Mr Upadhyay
said the company has already
signed contracts with
three leading government
organisations for managed
hosting and cloud services.
“We expect to sign more
contracts from leading state
and Central Government departments
as well as several
private enterprises shortly,”
he said.