IBM
to Build Green Data Centres in India
As part
of its IT services agreement with MTS India,
IBM will design and build
two green data centres – one each in Chennai and Gurgaon. The aim is to
support company's pan-India expansion plans for offering telephony
services.
In a
similar initiative,
IBM, Syracuse University (SU) and New York State have also entered into
a multiyear agreement to build and operate a new computer data center on
the University's campus. It’ll use smarter computing technologies to
make an energy-efficient data center. The data center, says IBM, is
expected to use 50% less energy than a typical data center today, making
it one of the "greenest" computer centers in operation. (Read:
Making Energy-efficient Data Centers)
MTS
India is the mobile telephony services brand of Sistema Shyam
TeleServices Limited (SSTL), a joint venture company between Sistema of
Russia and Shyam Group of India.
The
green data centres, according to IBM, will help SSTL achieve 20% energy
savings.
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 IBM solution is supposed to ensure
that SSTL's expansion plans are supported by Green IT infrastructure.
The
Chennai site will serve as the main data centre for SSTL, while the data
centre in Gurgaon will act as the disaster recovery site. IBM has
deployed cooling solution at these data centres, which aim to result in
operational savings for SSTL.
IBM is
aggressively targeting Indian market. Recently,
HDFC Bank became the first
commercial bank in India to use IBM System z mainframe. (Read:
HDFC Bank Banking on IBM System z Mainframe)
It has
also signed an
agreement with STAR India. The tech major will implement SAP application
covering all major business processes of the leading film, TV company.
(Read:
IBM to Entertain TV Player STAR India)
According to IBM, SSTL is already providing telecom services in
Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala states in India. It has acquired
licenses and spectrum to provide mobile telephony services in all the 22
circles across the country under its MTS brand name.
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