TCS gets Puducherry data centre contract

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BS Reporter Chennai
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 8:04 PM IST

Tata Consultancy Services has won a contract to establish and manage the State Data Centre (SDC) from Puducherry.

The SDC, launched in the state by Union minister of state for Communications and Information Technology, Sachin Pilot, recently, is expected to put in place infrastructure to consolidate state-level applications like commercial taxes application, state service delivery gateway and e-District.

"Apart from Puducherry, TCS is implementing data centres for various central government agencies as well as for Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh state data centres under the National e-Governance Plan," said Tanmoy Chakrabarty, head and vice president, (global government industry group), TCS.

The services would be offered through common delivery platform supported by core connectivity infrastructure such as State Wide Area Network (SWAN) and Common Service Centre (CSC) connectivity extended up to village level.

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