Enterprise class data centre and cloud service provider Pi Datacenters's new facility in the Andhra Pradesh capital was inaugurated by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Friday.
Pi Amaravati is Asia's largest uptime institute tier IV certified data centre.
Naidu tweeted that the facility will provide employment to 2,000 people.
State IT Minister N. Lokesh,APi atacenters founder and CEO Kalyan Muppaneni, top management of Pi Datacenters and business leaders of Fortune 500 companies were present, said a company statement.
One of the most advanced data centres in the world, Pi Amaravati is the first Software Defined Strategic Data Center (SDDC) in the world and uses open stack virtualisation framework to deliver the best-in-class computing, storage, and networking experience.
Pi is capable to deliver top of the league modular colocation and hosting services with a capacity up to 5000 rack, making it the largest in Asia and one of the top data centres in the world.
Recently, Pi Datacenters was awarded uptime institute tier IV design certification, achieving the highest standards for infrastructure, functionality and capacity.
"With the launch of Pi Amaravati, we will be offering highly innovative and tailored solutions with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and host of other cloud enabled product and services to our esteemed partners," said Muppaneni.
On this occasion, the company entered into MoUs with some leading public and private enterprises that includes PowerGrid, IRCTC, Mahindra & Mahindra Finance, Deutsche Bank,SAR Group, UNIBIC, Yaatra.com, Snap Bizz, Konsole Group, Acute and Net Spider.
Pi Datacentres to invest Rs. 600 crore at Mangalagiri
Pi Datacentres Private Limited on Wednesday announced the launch of its state-of-the-art data centre at Mangalagiri to serve enterprise businesses across the country and abroad with co-location and cloud service offerings.
The data centre will be a greenfield facility built in more than five lakh square feet and will offer direct employment to more than 300 people and indirect employment to over 2,000 people. Being set up a cost of Rs. 600 crore, it will be South India’s first tier-4 certified data centre.
“The government has sanctioned 10 acres, besides promising to establish an exclusive sub-station for dedicated power supply, four-lane road access and other facilities,” said Kalyan Muppaneni, founder and chief executive officer of Pi Datacentres Private Limited.
The facility will be equipped with 5,000 server racks, and each rack will handle 42 server units. Construction works will commence in two months, and operations are likely to commence in April next year.
There is a lot of void in offering quality data centre service to companies both in the country and abroad, and the focus will be on delivering reliable, secure and dedicated service to clients, Muppaneni explained.
Mr. Muppaneni, a native of Vijayawada, claimed that investors ranged from United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Taiwan and said the company would go for public issue by the end of 2018.
Cramped spaces
On finalising Vijayawada and its suburbs, he said most data centres were established in cramped spaces in cities like Mumbai and Bangalore. Vijayawada is geographically well connected with Chennai, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam and offers lot of space, and the company will be hiring local talent, he added.
The data centre will be a greenfield facility and will offer direct employment to more than 300 people
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