Bharti Airtel launches green data centre in Mumbai
05 Dec 2012
Bharti Airtel has launched 22,000 square feet green data centre in Mumbai, which has been jointly designed and commissioned with NetMagic Solutions.
The facility has been designed to achieve 1.7-1.75 power usage effectiveness (PUE), making it one of the most energy efficient facilities in India, the company said in a statement.
PUE is a metric used to determine the energy efficiency of a data centre.
''Mumbai is the commercial capital of India and one of the world's top commercial hubs. It provides tremendous opportunity to provide IT managed and cloud services to enterprise customers.
With the launch of this facility, airtel takes another step in moving beyond its core connectivity services and into collocation, managed hosting services and bringing these services closer to our customers in Mumbai. It supports our drive to be the preferred IT&T provider delivering end to end solutions to our customers,'' said Drew Kelton, President – Airtel Business, Bharti Airtel.
At present, Airtel operates 7 data centres in National Capital Region, Bangalore, Chennai, Bhubneshwar and Pune.
The new data centre will enable the company to offer co-location, managed hosting, disaster recovery, remote infrastructure management, application and cloud computing services to small, medium and large enterprises across verticals in Mumbai.