Netmagic expands data center footprint in India

Data center Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (DILM) service provider Netmagic, an NTT Communications Company, today announced the launch of its new data center at Electronics City here.
The 100,000 sq ft data center is the first time Netmagic and NTT Communications have collaborated in building an entire facility from the ground up, and thereby, draws from their combined engineering and operations expertise, the company officials said.
"This is second data center of Netmagic in Bangalore and eighth in the country. We have also got approval for another data center in Mumbai... So we will have total of nine data center very soon," Netmagic MD & CEO Sharad Sanghi told reporters here.

The company already has a data center at Information Technology Park Limited (ITPL) in the city.
He said: "The company has over 850 employees in India and has operations in Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Noida as far as datacenter goes and it also has R&D center at Pune."
"We will be building additional capacity in these locations also, as done in Bangalore - where we have set up our second datacenter," he said.

To a question on investment on the new data center and the one to be set up in Mumbai, without giving any exact figures, Sanghi said: "We invest in phases...Typically we spend close to Rs 30,000 a sq ft on the built data ccenter white space...This is going to have close to 50,000 sq ft of white space...".

"...Mumbai will be two and a half times this size, so it is quite significant investments that we are doing on datacenters in India," he added.
Stating that company wants to be the part of global seamless cloud that NTT would provide across the world, Sanghi said: "We want to become the cloud provider of choice for global enterprises both India headquartered or overseas headquartered...".
The company said the new facility also marks the formal launch of the Nexcenter brand of data center services in India. Under this brand, NTT Communications offers leading-edge data center services across the globe. In India, these services are offered through all 8 Netmagic data centers.

The data center will deliver Netmagic's entire suite of services, including managed co-location, dedicated hosting, cloud computing, IT infrastructure monitoring and management and security, company officials said.