Bharti Airtel, a global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, has launched a new green data center in Mumbai.

The state-of-the-art facility has been designed to achieve 1.7- 1.75 Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), making it one of the most energy efficient facilities in India.

The new data center expands Airtel Business’s ability to offer colocation, managed hosting, disaster recovery, remote infrastructure management, application and cloud computing services to small, large and medium enterprises across verticals in Mumbai.

This is Airtel’s eighth Tier III+ data center in the country and is in line with Airtel’s growing focus on hosting and managed services segment.

The data center has been jointly designed and commissioned with India’s NetMagic Solutions.
It is carrier neutral and is connected to airtel’s bandwidth capacity and network support infrastructure to enable scalability, resilience and efficient delivery of services to its valued customers.

Drew Kelton, President of Airtel Business, Bharti Airtel, said: “Mumbai is the  commercial capital of India and is also one of the world’s top centers of  commerce as a result it offers humungous opportunity to provide IT managed and  cloud services to enterprise customers. With the launch of this facility, Airtel takes another step in moving beyond  its core  connectivity services and  into  collocation, managed and hosting services and bringing these services closer to  our clients in Mumbai. It supports our drive to be the preferred IT&T provider delivering end to end solutions to our customers.”

Airtel currently operates seven level 3/3+ data centers in NCR, Bangalore, Chennai, Bhubneshwar and Pune - giving PAN India presence and choice to enterprise customers for their both primary/DR requirements.