Kolkata : Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India’s largest telecommunications service provider, has entered into a strategic alliance with Datacraft Asia Ltd., the region?s leading provider of IT services and solutions, to provide data center services in India.
The agreement will see Datacraft build, operate and manage – six strategic data centres across the country for BSNL.
The data centers will feature exceptional capacity for future expansion, optimal power, cooling and IT systems and are designed as fully redundant infrastructure. BSNL and Datacraft will jointly sell the managed Hosted and Cloud ?IT as a Service? from these facilities under the brand ?onecloud?.
Powered by BSNL and managed by Datacraft, the data centers will feature world class facilities, connectivity and manageability. The cutting-edge technologies will provide a comprehensive portfolio of highly secure, scalable and green data center solutions.
Covering a vast data center area of 66,000 square feet, these six data centers are inter-connected with point-to-point Ethernet tunnels that can deliver unprecedented levels of high speed connectivity and low latency.
The data centers are strategically located in Jaipur, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Ludhiana, Ghaziabad and Faridabad.
Gopal Das, CMD of BSNL, said: ” Our clients from the Government, Public Sector and Banks can now undertake data center transformation services – using our flexible sourcing options or simply host their entire IT assets within our secure data centers with complete peace of mind at a very competitive cost.?
BSNL provides a comprehensive range of telecom services in India, including Wireline, CDMA mobile, GSM Mobile, Internet, Broadband, Carrier services, MPLS-VPN, VSAT, VoIP services, and IN services.