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IBM India, a local unit of International Business Machines Corp , said on 1 June that it has received an information technology contract from MTS India, the mobile telephone services arm of Shyam Sistema TeleServices Ltd, or SSTL. The company said that under the agreement it will design and build two data centres, one in Chennai and the other in Gurgaon, intended to support SSTLs plans to expand its pan-Indian telephony services. SSTL, a 74:26 joint venture between Russias Sistema JSFC and Indias Shyam Group, entered a tie-up with Russias Mobile TeleSystems to launch mobile services under the MTS brand in India.
The green data centres, which are energy efficient, will help SSTL achieve 20 per cent energy savings, it added.
SSTL is a joint venture company between Russias Sistema and the Shyam Group of India.
As a global telecom player with ambitious expansion plans for the Indian market, we are aware of the advantage of adopting energy-efficient operational measures and in the process will work proactively to reduce global energy emissions, SSTL President and Chief Executive Officer Mr Vsevolod Rozanov said.
While the Chennai site will serve as the main data centre for SSTL, the Gurgaon site will be the companys disaster recovery site.
SSTL is already providing telecom services in Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and has acquired licences and spectrum to provide mobile telephony services in all the 22 circles across the country under its MTS brand name.
IBM India will also build a network operations centre for SSTL. IBMs designs will include energy saving systems to reduce costs for SSTL. The Chennai site will serve as the main data centre for SSTL with the Gurgaon data centre serving as the disaster recovery site.
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