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Reliance
launches Data Centre in Colombo with PCH
By Darshana Abayasingha
Indias leading integrated telecommunications
company, Reliance Communications, extended its reach to Sri
Lanka with the set up of Reliance Internet Data Centre (IDC)
together with PCH Holdings.
The IDC would offer a full range of services including managed
hosting, co-location, disaster recovery, business continuity,
security, IT consultancy, content management and a range of
application services. An IDC can help reduce infrastructure
cost to companies, and this particular solution also includes
hardware components.
Reliance Communications is the flagship company of the Anil
Dhirubhai Ambani Group of companies. Listed on the National
Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange, it has over
48 million customers in India. The companys business
encompasses a complete range of telecom services covering
mobile and fixed line telephony, broadband, and data services
along with an exhaustive range of value-added services and
applications.
PCH Holdings is parent to a number of diversified companies
in Sri Lanka, and is the strategic partner to some international
IT brands. It also holds Sri Lankas largest regional
IT channel through 40 branches. The Reliance IDC would be
operated through Greenwich Lanka a subsidiary of PCH
that has ventures in computer manufacturing, BPO, pharmaceuticals,
consumer electronics and more.
Reliance date centers in India encompass 23 large Tier III
facilities in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi and other
major cities. It offers over 500,000 square feet of hosting
space and all facilities are part of a pan-India and pan-global,
wholly owned, world-bridging fiber optic network with interconnected
relationship with almost every major internet service provider
in the world.
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