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Tata Communications set to expand enterprise reach later this year
Tata Communications set to expand enterprise reach later this year
By Network World Asia Staff | Mar 9, 2010
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Tata communications is preparing to roll out a series of managed services solutions to enterprises in the Asia Pacific region as the first stage of a worldwide move having spent the last four years investing over US$2billion on it's infrastructure.
Speaking at the company's first media and analyst summit in London, Srinath Narasimham the managing director and CEO of Tata Communications, said that the company is seeking to offer more than consumer voice services and the like. Over the next two to three years Srinath said that the company will move up the telecommunications value chain to a partnership driven, value added company.
With the aid of investments and acquisitions, it also seeks to rapidly grow its global enterprise segment with catalyst services including Telepresence, Ethernet and cloud computing services.
The investment in infrastructure means that Tata Communications currently has 42 facilities worldwide representing a million square feet of data center facilities. The company also heavily invested in undersea cabling to ensure smooth and reliable connectivity.
The company further announced a US$2 billion plan to roll out new infrastructure and service capabilities over three years beginning in 2009.
Tata communications is planning on offering two types of managed services to begin with said John Landau, Senior Vice President for Global Managed Services at the company.
According to Landau, the cloud computing solutions the company is planning to rollout as Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) soutions out from India and into the Asia Pacific region later this year.
The SaaS offerings will include collaboration tools like messaging, customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise content management (ECM) tools. Landau was unable to give full details of what would be contained in the IaaS solutions but said that they would provide customers with reliability and scalability needed to meet changing business needs.
Landau said that these would be marketed directly through Tata communications itself although the company was open to the idea of working through telco partners. He added that although market awareness of cloud computing in India was not as high as in more developed markets, Tata was still optimistic on the success of a cloud computing rollout. Success he said would be Tata maintaining its leadership position in its home market and being in the top
