Tulip partners IBM, Schnabel for Bangalore data centre

Tulip Telecom today choose IBM as its strategic partner and Schnabel as review consultant to build India’s largest data centre in Bangalore. Tulip through its wholly owned subsidiary company has acquired SADA information technology parks across 9 lakh square feet earlier this year for Rs 230 crores. The data centre will be built with an investment of Rs 900 crores spread over 3 years.

As per the contract, IBM will provide design consultancy services with turnkey execution to build the first phase of the data center. IBM’s consulting and design services will cover a range of data center technologies including power, cooling, rack layout, chillers, UPS/DG sets and more. IBM will use its Enterprise Modular Data Center (EMDC) design for Tulip.

Schnabel will do peer review consulting with Tulip on the data center build. This is the company’s fifth data centre in the country (one each in Delhi and Bengaluru and two in Mumbai) providing a combined space of approximately 10 lakh square feet across all data centres. 

Sanjay Jain, CEO of TULIP Telecom said, “Tulip will work 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.”

Tulip currently offers for co-location, managed hosting, data storage and a suite of other complementary services including managed security services and storage through its five data centers.