ESDS launches its second data centre at Rs 200 cr investment

Company aims to create 500 employment opportunities by 2017-18 across centres

Exuberant Support for Data Services (ESDS), provider of managed data centre services, today announced the launch of its second data centre in Mahape, Navi Mumbai. 

This Uptime Institute certified data centre is part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked with the government of Maharashtra with a Rs 200 crore investment. Additionally, the company aims to create 500 employment opportunities by 2017-18 across it centres.

Spread over 80,000, Sq.ft, the cloud data centre will offer private cloud and eNlight Public cloud hosting for customers. Additionally, the company also introduced its new product, eNlight 360 – a next generation, on-premise hybrid cloud platform.

"India is fast evolving as a digital economy and the government of India's Digital India initiative is giving a tremendous impetus to business growth. Having the right technology infrastructure, like the ESDS cloud data centre is an important step to fuel innovation and accelerate economy. I welcome and congratulate ESDS team on taking the lead to drive innovation from India," said Anurag Thakur, Member of Parliament and joint parliamentary standing committee Chairman of IT.

This equips ESDS to offer large enterprises and SMEs with an auto-scalable and pay-per-consume cloud hosting solution that delivers compute roll-out of SaaS, PaaS & IaaS based portfolio.

Piyush Somani, CEO & MD, ESDS, Said, “Empowered with India’s only patented eNlight cloud, we are best poised to be the strategic partner fulfilling modern business demands for highly reliable, available and easily scalable IT infrastructure requirements.”

With this launch, ESDS has total data centre footprint spread over 1,00,000 sq ft floor space across its Mumbai & Nashik data centres. ESDS has a total of 300 enterprise clients in BFSI, government, retail, and education sectors.