Chandrababu Naidu inaugurates Asia's largest data center-Pi Amaravati in Mangalagiri

NEW DELHI: Enterprise class data centre and cloud service provider Pi Datacenters has launched “Pi Amaravati” - Asia’s Largest Uptime Institute TIER IV Certified Data Center at Amaravati, Vijayawada, the capital of newly reorganized state of Andhra Pradesh.

Pi Amaravati was inaugurated by Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Nara Chandrababu Naidu at Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh, in the presence of IT Minister, Shri Nara Lokesh, Kalyan Muppaneni, Founder & CEO –Pi Datacenters, top management of Pi Datacenters and business leaders of Fortune 500 companies.

One of the most advanced data centers in the world, Pi Amaravati is the first Software Defined Strategic Data Center (SDDC) in the world and uses open stack virtualization framework to deliver the best-in-class computing, storage, and networking experience. Pi is capable to deliver top of the league modular colocation and hosting services with a capacity upto 5000 rack, making it the largest in Asia and one of the top datacenters in the world.

Pi’s Enterprise Cloud Platform “Habour1” is the 1st OpenStack based enterprise cloud in India, powered by SUSE. It is also the 1st Cloud stack on a Software Defined Storage architecture in India and 1st Cloud data center with a modular architecture in Asia.

Recently, Pi Datacenters has been awarded Uptime Institute Tier IV Design Certification, achieving the highest standards for infrastructure, functionality and capacity as demonstrated on the design documents. The company aims to cater to the key industry verticals with the most advanced industry solutions stack, offering the highest standards of security, utmost scalability and flexibility at the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Addressing the distinguished guests and partners, Kalyan Muppaneni, Founder & CEO – Pi Datacenters said, “Pi Amaravati is a major milestone for the entire team and we are indeed privileged to have amongst us today, Shri Nara Chandrababu Naidu, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, who by his very presence lends to this occasion a unique honor and prestige, and a strong source of inspiration for the entire IT community”

“With the launch of Pi Amaravati, we will be offering highly innovative and tailored solutions with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and host of other cloud enabled product and services to our esteemed partners” he further added.

At the launch of the Pi Amaravati data center, the company has entered into Memorandum of Understanding with some of the leading public and private enterprises that includes - PowerGrid, IRCTC, Mahindra & Mahindra Finance, Deutsche Bank, SAR Group, UNIBIC, Yaatra.com, Snap Bizz, Konsole Group, Acute and Net Spider.