NTT’s Netmagic launches India’s largest data centre

Netmagic, an NTT Communications company, on Thursday announced the launch of India's largest data centre in Mumbai.

The data centre has a massive 300,000 square feet (27,000 square metres) of floor space with 2,700 racks and has been built to global design standards of NTT Communications, using the experience and expertise of running over 140 data centers worldwide, the firm said.

Promising world-class data centre facilities to Indian customers, this is yet another ''Nexcenter'' branded data centtr in the country.

It will deliver Netmagic's entire suite of services including managed co-location, dedicated hosting, cloud computing, IT infrastructure monitoring and management, managed security, disaster recovery and managed app hosting. The data centre is already operational with some marquee anchored customers on board.

''This occasion is of great pride for us, as this new Mumbai data centre will facilitate Indian and multi-national enterprises in experiencing the state-of-the-art data centers that NTT Communications operates across the world,'' said Tetsuya Shoji, president and chief executive of NTT Communications.

''This facility is part of our Nexcenter brand of Global data centre services providing seamless ICT solutions including networks, cloud computing, data centre security and applications, thereby capitalizing on the trend of enterprises' migrating their on-premise systems to the cloud,'' added Shoji.

Speaking on the occasion, Sharad Sanghi, managing director and chief executive of Netmagic, said, ''Businesses today require a robust, reliable and resilient IT infrastructure backbone that is above all easily scalable and responsive. Given Mumbai's business importance, Netmagic's Data Centre 5 is poised to soon become the very heart of India's IT Infrastructure needs, offering the right platform for enterprises and start-ups alike, to grow, scale and innovate in order to take business to the next level.''

Parallel to the launch of the new data centre facility, Netmagic also announced the launch of new services (virtual private cloud, virtual load balancer as a service & next-gen backup and archival) and a refined network fabric, stemming from Spine Leaf Architecture.

With this launch, Netmagic now has nine data centres across India and will have more than 600,000 square feet (55,000 square meter) of floor space. Some of the key highlights of this facility include 4 diverse fibre paths to ensure reliability at network levels, 28 MVA of facility power and dual power feed through PDU with isolation transformer