AT&T has recently announced the opening of its first data centre in India.  The new data centre located at Bangalore, will help the company meet the growing demand from multinational customers in India for online data centers with highly resilient facilities, a wide range of IT infrastructure management services, supported by excellent customer services.

The new data centre will enable customers to have an access to the company’s wide range of fully integrated managed hosting, application and networking services to support their data and e-commerce needs.  Connectivity to the centre will be supported with the company’s existing suite of managed data services in the country.

“The new Bangalore centre underscores AT&T’s commitment to the rapidly expanding telecommunications sector in India and highlights the rapidly growing demand in this market,” said Gopi Gopinath, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Global Network Services India. “With the further enhancement of our hosting facilities in the Asia Pacific region, AT&T will be able to support multinational customers in India who turn to AT&T for integrated hosting and network solutions, allowing them to focus on running their businesses.” 

The data center is built on the same specifications consistent with the company’s other global data centres and are enabled with services that can proactively manage customers’ hosting solutions for predictable application performance. It is protected from intrusion and failure with the same multi-layered security, fail-safe redundancy, diversity measures, and rapid response recovery measures built into each of the company’s other data centers.

The new centre is directly connected to the company’s global MPLS backbone to offer a rich portfolio of hosting solutions with unparalleled network performance and features.  Among them are greater agility when making real-time changes to IT environments, more control to extend applications to the customer’s premises or to other data centers, and the ability to include ‘on network’ capabilities in a customer solution.

In addition, the company will also offer capabilities such as server virtualization, application acceleration and patent-pending visual management tools, all of which are integrated with its network services.  These and other services allow the company to deliver hosted solutions all the way through the full application lifecycle.

The new Bangalore facility is part of the company’s previously announced US$1 billion planned global network and portfolio investment for 2008.  The addition of the Bangalore facility is AT&T’s latest milestone in expanding its hosting footprint in India and Asia. The company had recently announced the availability of its next-generation utility computing service for business customers in Asia through the opening of its first ‘super IDC’ in Singapore. These IDCs act as regional gateways to deliver the company’s Synaptic Hosting platform.