Schneider Electric has commissioned a Services Bureau in Bangalore to support data centres in India and the entire Asia Pacific region.
The French major, which provides energy management solutions, describes the new Services Bureau as a Centre of Excellence. This centre integrates information management systems, monitoring solutions, data science, technical and operational expertise.
The Services Bureau will address the requirement of its data centre services clients in verticals such as telecom, retail banking, healthcare, manufacturing among other areas. It has been set up to help customers optimise their infrastructure, senior company officials told Business Line over telephone.
Philippe Arsonneau, Senior Vice-President APJ Schneider Electric, IT Business Unit said, “Data Centres are becoming increasingly complex to manage and operate, as the business risks associated with failure of such critical infrastructure equipment is too significant to disregard. Schneider Electric through this bureau will help customers optimise their investments without any problems.”
Nikhil Pathak, Vice-President, Schneider Electric IT Business, India & SAARC said, “Over the last two years, our India team has built the expertise and experience in offering complete services for all critical environments. Energy management is a major driver for addressing efficiency as a whole.”
The corporation seek to build on its close relationship with hundreds of customers and help them by offering services both on site and through such centres.
For the company, its large installed base provides an opportunity to offer a wide range of services, spanning energy, IT infrastructure and data centre management.
According to Pathak, Data Science is the next step to provide more value addition to customers. This is a methodology to turn Big Data into information that will help people take better action for the short or long term.
Schneider with its complete services portfolio, including power management, sees itself in a position to offer strategic value to its customers.