Karur Vysya, Bharti tie up for data centre

Chennai: Karur Vysya Bank (KVB) will be setting up a Rs 10-crore centralised data-processing centre in collaboration with the Bharti group. Bharti Broadband Networks Ltd will provide the infrastructure for the centre, which will be housed at Bharti Towers, Chennai.

KVB chairman P T Kuppuswamy says the data centre will facilitate interconnection of the banks computerised branches. At present 140 of the banks 211 branches are computerised on a standalone basis. With the data centre in operation, these branches can be fully interconnected. The centre will be managed by KVBs IT personnel.

Bharti Telenet chief executive officer K Krishnan says Bharti proposes to offer similar facilities to other customers also. "The group is talking to three other potential customers." Bharti Telenet has launched its basic operations Touchtel in Chennai and Madurai. Bharti Towers in Chennai houses the telecom complex that has the main switching unit of Touchtels fixed-telephone services.