Indian IT infrastructure services company, NxtGen Datacenter and Cloud Technologies, will get $13.5 million from investors including Intel Capital, and will complete a data center in Bengaluru.

NxtGen offers cloud services and data center provision both on-premises and from its data centers in Mumbai, and Bengaluru - India’s third largest city, formerly known as Bangalore, where NxtGen has its headquarters. As well as Intel Capital, other investors include Axon Capital Group and International Finance Corporation, according to a report in the Economic Times.

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Bengaluru skyline – Thinkstock / oppasin

Growth plans

“This funding will enable us to further strengthen our growth plans in India and initiate our international strategy,” said NxtGen’s chief executive officer A S Rajgopal. 

India is working to increase its data center sector, and this week also saw the announcement of plans for a data center park in the city of Indore.

With infrastructure bottlnecks, unreliable power and outdated telecom policies India is punching below its weight in the Asian data center market. Rolling power-cuts are commonplace in parts of the country, and power outages covering multiple states are known to happen.

Indian firms tend to keep their data in other countries, adding to expense and delays, but NxtGen and the Indore data center park aim to reverse this trend.