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Tulip Data Center Services announced the commercial launch of its Bengaluru Data Center, Tulip Data City (TDC), which is Asia’s largest and the world’s third largest Data center. Mr Sachin Pilot, Hon’ble Minister of State for Communication and IT inaugurated this world-class Data center.

The Tulip Data City is a multi-tiered facility built to tier 4 and tier 3 standards.  Large hosted Data Center facilities such as this one are multi-tenanted, and because of the scale, are far more efficient than smaller facilities, therefore saving huge amounts of power. Being the most ‘green’ and the most power efficient data center in India, the facility is expected to save close to 35 MW power at full capacity.  This because of an extremely high Power Utilization Efficiency of around 1.5 compared to the industry average of over 2.

The company has been implementing aggressive sales and marketing programme to achieve its target of booking 25%capacity by the end of FY12

Speaking on the launch, Lt Col HS Bedi, Chairman & Managing Director, Tulip Telecom Ltd. said, “This data center by Tulip Telecom is a testimony to our focus on constant innovation and commitment towards adopting new technologies. Large enterprises and global leaders are partnering with Tulip progressively through this data center as they see cost optimization and complete security of their mission critical data.  We believe that with this state of the art Data Center facility, our customers are assured that Tulip will fulfill their needs pertaining to data management and date security".

On this occasion, Mr Sachin Pilot, Hon’ble Minister of State for Communication and IT said “I am happy to be a part of the inauguration of this technology marvel which is the third largest data center in the world. Data Centers are at the heart of today’s digital revolution and enable not enterprise services but also many Government to Citizen services. It is a matter of pride that India today boasts of a world class Data center, which is the largest outside of the US.”  -

The hosted Data Center market is a booming space with huge potential for growth. Enterprises today face a multitude of business challenges, which are propelling them to outsource their Data center operations. Demand for Hosted Data centers has been on a high due to factors like cost optimization, power, cooling, data security and disaster recovery expertise. Analysts forecast that the hosted data center market is expected to witness the highest CAGR of 18.4 percent in 2011 through 2016*. India's Data center market for raised floor space has been growing at a healthy 25 percent to 30 percent annual rate in the last three years. IDC estimates that the amount of information managed by enterprise data centers will grow 50 times over the next decade, and in the next two years alone the number of servers installed will increase by 49 percent over those installed currently.

The Tulip Data center is a technology marvel built by the company in Tulip’s journey from being an enterprise data connectivity provider to becoming the leading enterprise data services provider. To make this state of the art Data center facility Tulip teamed with industry leaders like IBM, HP, Cisco, EMC, Schneider Electric, Emerson, Panduit and Corning among others to build the facility. Schnabel of Germany was the design review consultant for the data center.  This data center is built to meet the LEED Gold Standards.