Cognizant to expand data centres, cloud infrastructure

Company to invest $25 million for opening new data centres in US, Europe

With an aim of enhancing its infrastructure management services capabilities, IT services company Cognizant has announced expansion of its data center footprint in North America and Europe, and deployment of an enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure.

The Nasdaq-listed company has committed an initial investment of $25 million to open additional data centers in Arizona and Virginia in the US, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and Slough (UK).

“Clients need to modernise their IT capabilities and bring consumer IT models to their users, and at the same time virtualise their infrastructure, rationalise costs, and improve productivity through flexible, as-a-service business models,” said Robert Boles, Sr VP of Cognizant’s IT Infrastructure Services practice.

“With our expanded cloud capabilities across our network of data centers, we can greatly enhance our ability to fulfill this growing client need,” he added.

These investments will help Cognizant offer clients a fully integrated suite of solutions including business process services, application development and support, data center services, cloud infrastructure and remote infrastructure management.

It will also enable Cognizant to provide clients with flexible, utility-based, as-a-service delivery models specific to clients’ organisational needs.