3i Infotech announces major expansion plans in Chennai

Located in 3i Infotech's 7-storey Chennai facility, the IDC, GNSOC and COEs will be jointly spread over 25,000 sq ft area. Out of this, the IDC, which conforms to the Tier III International Data Standard, will alone occupy a total of 6000 sq ft area, with all access controls, CCTV, UPS, Precision AC along with Rack and cage facility. The centre will provide secure data centre hosting facilities for its clientele in India and across the globe. The GNSOC will provide customers with Remote IT Infrastructure Monitoring and Management Services with a 24/7 IT Helpdesk. With an operating area for around 75 people, the remote infrastructure set up is spread across 3000 sq ft area.  

Commenting on the launch, Mr. Hari Padmanabhan, Dy. Managing Director, 3i Infotech, said "3i Infotech today offers an unparalleled range of products across the insurance, banking & financial services, manufacturing and distribution landscape and we will continue to expand and deepen our product portfolio across the verticals we are focused on. Customers in this space, however, are today looking at driving larger scale in their business at lower implementation cost. The challenge for the CEO therefore, is to be able to relate cost to revenue. With the inauguration of our International Data Centre today, 3i Infotech has dramatically shifted its ability to service such customers to provide them a single point business execution outsourcing solution."

Mr. Padmanabhan further added, "With our domain specific products positioned as the core IT solution, the infrastructure being managed by us, hosted applications provided out of our data centre and linked to our back-end BPO services, the business manager can today get a single point variable cost solution on service levels not available else where. This unique end-to-end single point business execution outsourcing proposition, will give us a strategic advantage in the market. The facility also enables us to provide business continuity service such as disaster recovery centres for our customers."

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