Wipro Infotech, IT arm of Wipro Limited, has announced the launch of the Andhra Pradesh State Data Centre, a project under the national e-governance plan.

The centre will host applications and data of various State Departments to enable automation of Government and citizen services. Spread across 9,000 sq.ft, the Centre has a storage capacity of 50 TB, expandable to 200 TB.

Wipro has undertaken complete design, supply and implementation of the physical and IT infrastructure of the centre. This includes servers, storage, networks, security, databases, software, network cabling, fire detection and control systems, lighting, CCTV surveillance, and UPS.

Wipro is also managing the operations of the centre on a 24x7 basis.

The data centre was inaugurated by the Chief Minister, Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy, in the presence of the Mr Sanjay Jaju, secretary to government-IT&C, and Mr Sanjay Kumar, Managing Director of Andhra Pradesh Technology Services (APTS).

APTS is the nodal agency for the state data centre project initiated by IT&C.

Speaking on the occasion, the Minister for IT&C, Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah, said “We are pleased to announce the successful commissioning of the Andhra Pradesh State Data Centre (APSDC) built by Wipro. The centre is equipped with complete redundancy and all set to power the state government's technology initiatives for better governance and citizen services.”

According to Mr Vivek Sharma, General Manager and Business Head, Government and Defence vertical, Wipro Infotech, Wipro won the project in September 2010 which includes sustenance for a period of five years.

Wipro is working towards getting the Data Centre certified for ISO 20000 (IT Service Management Standard) and ISO 27001 (Information Security Management Systems standard) respectively.

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