Tulip and IBM partner to build Data Center in Bangalore

Tulip Telecom has partnered with IBM and Schnabel to set up a Data Center in Bengaluru. India's largest and the world's third largest Data Center will be housed on an area spread across 900,000 sq ft at Whitefield in Bengaluru. The approximate investment for the project is Rs. 900 Crore spread over three years.

As part of the partnership, IBM will provide design consultancy services for overall Data Center space. Schnabel will provide peer review consulting services.

Sanjay Jain, CEO, Tulip Telecom Ltd said, “We are extremely happy about our association with IBM and SCHNABEL for our fifth and country's largest data center set up. Having world leaders like IBM and Schnabel as consulting partners, will enable us to further enhance the enterprise data services experience for our customers who are not only based in India but also outside the country." He also added, "Tulip will work with its partners to improve efficiency, reduce costs and boost security, thus ensuring that Tulip's solutions match the highest quality standards in the enterprise services domain that are available in the world today.”

Ashish Kumar, general manager, IBM Global Technology Services, India/ South Asia stated, “Through this partnership, IBM will design Tulip's Data Center with standards that are highly efficient and reliable." He further added, "The data center will be highly resilient and have the environmental protection advantages of IBM's industry-leading data center design characterized by energy efficiency, green technologies, scalability and the latest power and cooling technologies. Also IBM will build Tulip's data center as a turnkey System Integrator to ensure that design objectives of energy efficiency and scalability are achieved."