NIC rolls out Rs 2bn data centre at Bhubaneswar, its fourth in the country

The new state-of-the-art cloud enabled national centre has 275 racks and can host 35,000 virtual servers

The National Informatics Centre (NIC), the IT backbone of Government of India, today launched its fourth national data centre in the country at Bhubaneswar here.

The new state-of-the-art cloud-enabled national centre, inaugurated by the Union minister for electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, is an addition to the ones at Delhi, Pune and Hyderabad.

Built at a cost of about Rs two billion, it has about 275 racks and can host 35,000 virtual servers.

"Governments, both centre and the state, district and panchayats can host their websites at the new cloud based data centre. Once, the capacity reaches 40 per cent we will