airtel launches Green Data Centre in Mumbai

Mumbai, 5th December 2012: Bharti Airtel a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa launched a new Green Data Centre 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 data centers in India. The new data center 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+ data centre in the country and is in line with Airtel's growing focus on hosting and managed services segment. The data center 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 worlds 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." Airtel currently operates seven level 3/3+ data centres in NCR, Bangalore, Chennai, Bhubneshwar and Pune - giving PAN India presence and choice to enterprise customers for their both primary/DR requirements. About Bharti Airtel Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 4 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 264 million customers across its operations at the end of October 2012. To know more please visit, www.airtel.com About Netmagic Solutions Netmagic Solutions, an NTT Communications Group company, is India's first and largest pure-play Managed IT Hosting Services Provider. Netmagic Solutions is ISO 27001, ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 20000-1 certified and its processes are designed as per the ITIL framework. Netmagic Solutions delivers mission critical hosted applications for over 1200 of the world's best-known enterprises from multiple locations. Netmagic's Chennai Datacenter is the only Gold LEED certified datacenter by the USGBC in India. Netmagic has 7 carrier neutral, state-of-the-art datacenters located in Mumbai, Bangalore, Noida (Delhi-NCR) and Chennai with over 2,00,000 sq. ft. floor space. For more information visit www.netmagicsolutions.com