Netmagic, an NTT Communications Group Company, on Thursday announced the launch of its 9th data center in Mumbai. One of the largest data center in India - this massive 300,000 sq. ft (27,000 sq. mt.) high density data center with 2,700 racks has been built to the exacting global design standards of NTT Communications, using the experience and expertise from building and successfully running over 140 data centers worldwide.
 
Extending the promise of world-class data center facilities to Indian customers, this is yet another "Nexcenter" branded data center in the country. The data center will deliver Netmagic's entire suite of services including Managed Co-location, Dedicated Hosting, Cloud Computing, IT Infrastructure Monitoring & Management, Managed Security, Disaster Recovery and Managed App Hosting. The Data Center is already operational with some marquee anchored customers on-board.
 
"This occasion is of great pride for us, as this new Mumbai data center will facilitate Indian and multi-national enterprises in experiencing the state-of-the-art data centers that NTT Communications operates across the world. The added advantage of Netmagic's operational excellence in Managed Services gives this data center the capability of becoming the new benchmark for data centers in India. This facility is part of our Nexcenter brand of Global data center services providing seamless ICT solutions including networks, cloud computing, data centers security and applications, thereby capitalizing on the trend of enterprises' migrating their on-premise systems to the cloud," said Tetsuya Shoji, President & CEO of NTT Communications.
 
"Businesses today require a robust, reliable and resilient IT Infrastructure backbone, that is above all easily scalable and responsive. With our new data center, the city has a promising state of the art destination for its IT Infrastructure requirements, and one that can abundantly address concerns of scalability, high availability and resilience in performance of hosted assets with an unprecedented ease. Given Mumbai's business importance, Netmagic's Data Center 5 is poised to soon become the very heart of India's IT Infrastructure needs, offering the right platform for enterprises and start-ups alike, to grow, scale and innovate in order to take business to the next level," said Sharad Sanghi, MD & CEO, Netmagic.
 
Parallel to the launch of the new data center facility, Netmagic also announced the launch of new services (Virtual Private Cloud, Virtual Load Balancer as a Service & Next-Gen Backup and Archival) and a refined network fabric, stemming from Spine Leaf Architecture.
 
With this launch, Netmagic now has 9 data centers across India and will have more than 600,000 sq.ft (55,000 sq. mt.) of floor space. Some of the key highlights of this facility include 4 diverse fibre paths to ensure reliability at network levels, 28 MVA of facility power and Dual Power feed through PDU with isolation transformer.