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NTT DATA aims to reskill all its employees in India to become AI-native developers, leveraging the country's vast engineering talent pool to scale Gen AI capabilities globally, a company spokesperson has said. It also intends to tailor its services to meet the country's unique requirements for cost sensitivity and data sovereignty/confidentiality, according to another company spokesperson. The global IT services company, which offshores engineering resources from India, currently employs over 40,000 individuals in the country. "India is one of the most important countries for the future... we have more than 40,000 employees in India, and our plan is to reskill all of them in order to be... AI-native developers," Carlos Galve, Head of the Global Generative AI Office, NTT DATA Corporation, told PTI. The reskilling programme will focus on boosting productivity to support global projects. "...the same number of people who can support, for example, 10 projects... can support 20 or 100
India is a very important market in our artificial intelligence strategy and is supported with a broader initiative, such as IndiaAI Mission, from the Indian government, a senior NTT DATA official has said. Tokyo-based global IT services firm NTT, which is a leader in the data centre market in India, is proud of its early investments and acquisitions in the country, said Jan Wuppermann, Senior Vice President Service Assurance and Data & AI, APAC, NTT DATA. The company holds nearly 30 per cent of the total market share in the data centre segment in India and expects to grow further in the near future. "Within AI, we use India as a hub for AI talent and a global AI delivery centre, APAC centre of excellence, which is complementary to the delivery centre in India. "India is a very important market in our AI strategy. It is also supported with a broader initiative in India around AI - the mission AI - from the government, which is an important one, with one of the selected parties on
India is a highly skilled and politically stable market that is giving high return on investments for data centre business, a senior official of NTT Global Data Centers and Submarine Cable company said on Thursday. The company announced the setting up of a new data centre campus in Noida with a total planned capacity of 52.8 megawatt critical IT load. NTT Global Data Centres and Submarine Cable CEO and President, Doug Adams, said Europe is the biggest market for the company, followed by the US, and Asia. However, he said the company's growth in India in the past two years was faster than in other markets. In the last two years, the company has added 44 MW of data centre capacity in Europe and 268 MW in India. "This shows that we are growing faster in India than other markets. It is a high return on investments. We have very strong growth and this is a politically very stable market that we are committed to growing," Adams said. The Noida data centre, spread across 300,000 sq ft,
NTT India has earmarked around USD 2 billion to boost information and communications technology infrastructure in the country over the next three-four years, aiming to tap the rise in data consumption, a top company official said. New data centres, cloud computing, submarine cable landing stations and solar parks are key areas where NTT India's capex is planned, he said. "We will invest USD 500 million annually for the next four years in India. This is over and above the USD 800 million we have already infused in the last two years into ICT infrastructure," NTT India MD & Sr EVP (Global Data Centres & Marine Cables) Sharad Sanghi told PTI. He was speaking on the sidelines of the ABP Group-organised INFOCOM 2022. The Indian arm of Japanese IT services major NTT Data Inc is also exploring the idea of setting up a submarine cable landing station in Kolkata, Sanghi said. The company will roll out submarine cable landing stations, which are physical locations where one or more ...