Wipro Infocrossing Invests in Cleveland to Support Growing IT Infrastructure

Infocrossing (News - Alert), a division of Indian IT giant Wipro, announced the purchase of an existing structure in Cleveland County, N.C. Infocrossing, a leading provider of IT management solutions for large and mid-size enterprises, intends to convert the building to a new, state of the art data center to support its growing IT infrastructure business.

The company hopes that new data center will add to its capacity and capabilities in the global data center marketplace.

In business for more than 25 years, Wipro (News - Alert) Infocrossing operates world-class data centers globally. The company has expertise across multiple computing environments and platforms, including mainframes, iSeries, Unix, Windows and Linux servers. The array of its offerings range from custom solutions delivered in Infocrossing’s data centers, to remote management and cloud computing.

The new data center at Cleveland will be constructed to meet the Uptime Institute’s requirements for a Tier III rating, Wipro informed through a press release. Uptime Institute’s Tier III rating defines architecture and redundancy requirements to maintain operations in the event of unplanned system failures.

The facility will also strive to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certification, the company announced. The data center will support all major platforms including mainframe, Windows, Unix, Linux and iSeries, and will house the company’s cloud computing services.

“At Wipro Infocrossing, we are always looking for ways to increase the value we deliver to our customers. Our vision for our Cleveland County data center is to not only increase our data center footprint, but build a data center that brings the best infrastructure technology to our clients. Recently, we announced the addition of our new data center in Meerbusch, Germany. Today, we are announcing our plans to build in Cleveland County, NC. Wipro Infocrossing is committed to building localized and global delivery capabilities, something which we, and our customers, believe differentiates us from our competitors,” said President of Wipro Infocrossing, Sameer Kishore, in a statement.

“Our ever-expanding data center solutions have become a key component for us when competing for large outsourcing engagements. The addition of our state-of-the art Cleveland County data center will enhance our capabilities and capacity, positioning us for greater marketshare” said President of Global Sales and Operations at Wipro, Martha Bejar, in a statement.

Last week Wipro Technologies (News - Alert) announced that Wipro has been awarded the Microsoft Platform Modernization Award for Sales for 2010. The award is the highest recognition for technology transformation and is awarded to partners who create an impact in the market place in transforming customer applications from competing platforms to Microsoft (News - Alert). Wipro received the award at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference earlier this year.