MTS India Partners with IBM for Data Centers

IBM has won a contract from MTS India, , the mobile telephony services brand of Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL) to design and build two data centres - one each in Chennai and Gurgaon - for the company. The data centre solution being deployed by IBM provides the facility to scale power and cooling automatically depending on the load. IBM will also build a Network Operations Centre (NOC) to help the SSTL team monitor and manage applications and network in a 24/7 environment.

MTS is currently in an expansion phase with plans to launch Pan-India telecom services in the coming months.

The Chennai site will serve as the main data centre for SSTL, while the data centre in Gurgaon will serve as the disaster recovery site.

SSTL is already providing telecom services in Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and has acquired licenses and spectrum to provide mobile telephony services in all the 22 circles across the country under its MTS brand name.

Posted to the site on 1st June 2009