Tata Set to Open Third Data Center in UK

India's Tata Communications has announced that it is setting up one more data center in London to cash in on what it calls “dramatic growth” in the number of UK companies looking to outsource their hosted IT operations as part of their attempt to rationalize costs and free up capital.

 

The third data center, which will have 21,400 square feet, has been described by the company as a Tier 3 data center that will support mission-critical infrastructures.

The latest data center brings the company's total data center footprint in the region to over 50,000 square feet. Tata owns and operates data centers on three continents totaling nearly one million square feet of space.

 

According to the company, the data center will be armed with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features and will be ready for service during the second quarter of 2009.

 

“The lack of power in the city of London has seen many firms seek to move operations outside the M25 and into a managed service environment to lower their cost of ownership, improve performance and reduce downtime of their IT investment,” the Indian company said.

 

"Tata Communications (News - Alert) has seen a rapid increase in demand for managed IT infrastructure services in the EMEA region, driven in part by rationalizing IT budgets and companies looking to outsource their data Center operations and achieve greater cost and resource efficiencies," said Abid Qadiri, Vice President of Data Center Services for Tata Communications.

 

Tata encompasses one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 300 Pops, and more than 1 million square feet of data Center and colocation facilities.

 

Weeks ago, Tata Communications said it had made plans to invest USD $180 million in development of data centers and associated services in Singapore. The investments in Singapore and the United Kingdom are part of the company's plan to invest $2 billion up to 2012 to expand its global presence.