Indian managed services company Sify Technologies, which covers networking, ICT and enterprise services, has opened Tier III certified data center, with a promised 10MW capacity, in Noida, India.

It is Sify’s fifth facility in the country, and it was built with a phase one cost of US$30m.

Sify Technologies CEO Kamal Nath said the data center, which has been optimized for high-density compute, has been built using a concurrently maintainable modular design.

It will be used for managed services, consultancy, enterprise risk management and hosted applications.

“Sify is emerging as an ICT solutions and services company with a strong focus on cloud and managed services,” Nath said.

“Our data centre strategy is the epicenter of our transformation story. In the past 12 years we have built five data centers, six state data centers and have recently connected over 36 data centers across India with our high-capacity data network.”

In total, he said Sify has invested about US$200m in building network and data center capabilities in India over the last five years.

This particular facility stands out due to its accreditation by the Uptime Institute for its Tier III design.

Power provision in particular states and regions can often make it difficult to attain such high levels of accreditation – in many cases dual feeds are unavailable – but Sify has managed to achieve the rating for all five of its data centers so far.

Each floor of the data center built by Sify has concurrently maintainable feeds.

In designing the facility, Sify has also focussed on energy efficiency, with lighting, electrical and computer systems chosen for their green credentials.

It said it aims to measure a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.6 or less at the facility.

It also uses low emission generators and has a rain water harvesting system.

All the waste are recycled and re-used at the Data Centre making it a zero discharge building,” Sify Technologies said.

Sify currently operates a network reaching more than 1,100 cities and towns in India and connects 36 data centers across the country.

Following its Q2 earnings in October this year, where it reported a net decline of 81.5% in profits, at Rs.11.10 crore, the company’s chairman Raju Vegesna placed strong emphasis on its technology services.

He said many companies in India are consolidating services with established providers like Sify to overcome tight fiscal conditions.

He told local newspaper The Hindu that Sify was seeing a lot of traction at its new Noida data center, and that it is currently working on a new facility in Mumbai, with an accelerated build project designed to expand capacity.