New Data Centre to launch in India

State owned Indian Telephone Industry is launching a new data centre which will become operational within the next six months. Located a the ITI Bangalore premises, the new facility is being constucted by a consortium of companies from Hyderabad. ITI Bangalore is providing the infrastructure, including land and building space for the centres, partner companies are to provide the required technology and equipment support to the centre. The centre will be 40,000 sq ft, but is planned to expand substantially over the next 2-3 years. ITI has been approached by a number of institutions including RailTel and some banking organisations to utilise the data centre.