IT services provider NTT DATA, on Tuesday, opened an advanced cloud services command centre here. The state-of-the-art Global Service Operations Centre (GSoC) will support customers in remote and cloud IT infrastructure and applications management.
NTT DATA Senior Vice-President (Cloud Services) Kannan Ramamani said the Bengaluru facility was truly global in nature, and gave high priority to security while supporting clients worldwide.
“We have invested millions in strengthening the cloud services in India, and we are developing tools and teams that will simplify and automate application migration to cloud,” he told The Hindu . Besides in GSoC, the investments are in Cloud Product Development Centre and talent development.
He said considering that the cloud is an identified area for future growth, NTT DATA, which has over 3,000 employees in Bengaluru of the over 10,000 in India, expects to focus more on product development centre and command centre.
On hiring, he said, “We continue to increase our talent strength through lateral and campus-hiring programmes, and expect our hiring to continue through 2015 also.”
John McCain, President and CEO, NTT DATA, and Marv Mouchawar, President, Cloud services, NTT DATA, were present.
“The shift towards virtual data centres and cloud architecture challenges the conventional management tools for effective operations. A GSoC like ours has a firm hand on the lifeline of any computing environment, including its networking elements.” said Marv Mouchawar.
Founded in 1967 in Japan as the technology arm of NTT Group, NTT DATA, with over $13 billion in annual revenues, has around 75,000 professionals in 40 countries. With services spanning applications, infrastructure, cloud and industry solutions, it has more than 200 clients in India.
