3i Infotech expansion plans in Chennai

3i Infotech Ltd has announced that the Company recently unveiled its expansion plans in Chennai. The Company announced the launch of its first International Data Centre (IDC), which will offer managed hosting services for application and disaster recovery solutions. As part of its strong foray in the $41.5bn** managed services market, 3i Infotech announced the launch of its Remote IT Infrastructure Management Services through its Global Network and Security Operations Center (GNSOC). The Company is also setting up mini centres of excellence (GOES) for Operating Systems: Microsoft, Red Hat Linux, AIX, Solaris, Databases : Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, DB2, Messaging Solutions and IT Security Labs for Ethical Hacking and Vulnerability Assessments and niche Application Infrastructure solutions.

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 AG 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 of the Company, 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."

Considered the next wave in managed services, today 3i Infotech is able to provide its customers not just with data centre hosting services but also with the ability to manage a Company's IT infrastructure remotely and anywhere in the world. Increasing pressures for regulatory compliance, growing need for technology standardization and the country's booming communication infrastructure are some of the factors driving the remote infrastructure services.

3i Infotech has a major presence in the area of managed services with key clientele such as NCDEX, IL&FS and Star Health Insurance to its credit. Although there are several players in the space of Managed Services, 3i Intotech has a distinct advantage in the BFSI space with a strong legacy, deep domain expertise and proven track record. Given the boom in telephony services in the country, telecom Companies too are most likely to avail of 3i Infotech's world class services.