Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced bagging a contract for establishing and managing State Data Centre (SDC) from Karnataka government.

The contract is seen as an extension of TCS’ association with the Centre for e-governance in the state in setting up new Secretariat LAN and managing the entire Secretariat LAN of Government of Karnataka for Five years.

“IT major like TCS has rightfully emerged as winner in the transparent process bidding to set up the State Data Center to enhance the infrastructure required for consolidating state level applications. The new data center will come up in Vikas Soudha, and our existing data center will become a Disaster Recovery Center. We would migrate all the applications from the existing SDC to the new one” said M.N. Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary, e-Governance Department, Government of Karnataka.

“With our proven methodology and expertise in implementing data centers for various state governments and other central government agencies, TCS will assist the government of Karnataka in establishing a reliable and efficient SDC. The new SDC would provide better operation & management control and minimize overall cost of Data Management, IT Resource Management, Deployment and other costs.” said Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Head and Vice President, Government ISU.