Airtel Launches Green Datacentre In Mumbai

Bharti Airtel, a global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa launched a new Green datacentre in Mumbai. The state of the art facility has been designed to achieve 1.7- 1.75 PUE, making it one of the most energy efficient facilities in India.

The new datacentre expands Airtel Business's ability to offer collocation, managed hosting, disaster recovery, remote infrastructure management, application and cloud computing services to small, large and medium enterprises across verticals in Mumbai. This is Airtel's eighth tier 3+ datacentre in the country and is in line with Airtel’s growing focus on hosting and managed services segment.

The datacentre has been jointly designed and commissioned with India’s NetMagic Solutions Pvt Ltd; is carrier neutral, and is connected to Airtel’s first class bandwidth capacity and network support infrastructure to enable scalability, resilience and efficient delivery of services to its valued customers.

Drew Kelton, President – Airtel Business, Bharti Airtel, said, “Mumbai is the commercial capital of India and is also one of the world’s top centres of commerce as a result it offers humungous opportunity to provide IT managed and cloud services to enterprise customers. With the launch of this facility, Airtel takes another step in moving beyond its core connectivity services and into collocation, managed and hosting services and bringing these services closer to our clients in Mumbai. It supports our drive to be the preferred IT&T provider delivering end to end solutions to our customers."

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