Hyderabad-based CtrlS Datacentres Ltd is highly focused on emerging opportunities in the public sector. The emerging developments such as smart cities across the country and the proposed iconic capital city like Amaravati will throw up host of opportunities in the data warehousing and cloud computing space, according to the company.
“We are closely watching the developments at the proposed Amaravati capital city and the Smart City initiatives of the Central government. In fact, we are already working with one of the advisory panels of the Central government which is focused on dedicated government cloud infrastructure. To meet the emerging demand, our provider capacity is estimated to grow to 4.5 million square feet by 2016,” said Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Chairman and Managing Director, CtrlS.
In expansion mode
The company is investing about Rs 700 crore by the end of financial year 2016 to set up data centres and cloud infrastructure across 17 countries. The IT infrastructure firm owns Asia’s biggest tier-IV data centre in Mumbai besides other centres in Hyderabad and Chennai.
To accommodate growing demand, CtrlS is expanding in Bengaluru and New Delhi. “Our New Delhi facility will be inaugurated in mid-April while the one in Bengaluru will be up and running in a year,” said B.S. Rao, vice president, marketing, CtrlS.
For the record, tier-IV data centre is the high security arena and CtrlS claims to be the only firm to own such a centre in India.
The client list of the company includes key players in government, telecom, banking, infrastructure, logistics, IT&ITES and media. Some of the major players in the list are Verizon, Genpact, IFFCO, State Bank of India, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), Indian Banks Association, Karvy, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Police, NTPC and Spicejet.
The list includes over 3,500 Indian and the world’s leading firms, including Fortune 100 and ET 100 companies supported by 200 innovations over the last eight years.
As per the market research firm Gartner, the Indian data centre infrastructure market is set to grow to $2 billion in 2016 and cloud services market to surpass $1.9 billion by the year 2019.
CtrlS is not alone in setting up facilities to take advantage of the emerging opportunities in India.
Given the huge business potential for data services here, global players such as Microsoft, Amazon and Vodafone Group have already lined up major investments.
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