The Web Werks – Iron Mountain Data Centers (IMDC) Joint Venture has announced the inauguration of its first greenfield data centre in Navi Mumbai, MUM-2.  Iron Mountain entered into a joint venture agreement with Web Werks in 2021.

Web Werks VMX will enable customers to deploy Nutanix solutions on a robust cloud platform that can be used to implement a private cloud within the data center while also supporting intelligent software to seamlessly integrate public cloud application platforms. This will be accompanied by the agility to scale without further capital investments.

The new DC facility will be a part of the data center parks approved by the government with additional investments to launch edge facilities in key cities in Uttar Pradesh. Nikhil Rathi, CEO, Web Werks also told ETCIO that the company intends to achieve a gross power capacity of 360MW across India in the next five years.

Nikhil Rathi, Co-founder & CEO of Web Werks, reveals how data centers help BFSI companies with data management, development of a strong ecosystem, connecting with multiple service providers & exchanges for smoothing functioning as well as other major challenges.

Handling large data,data security,skill shortage, lack of process and system to handle data, multiple data storages, data integration, data governance, data analysis, going from unstructured to structured data – all these are challenges faced by all BFSI companies.

His expertise includes IT infrastructure planning and management, networking framework, and data center management.

Durgesh Pandey, CFO, Web Werks in an exclusive discussion with Rajneesh De, Consulting Editor, APAC News Network

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The new 110,000 square foot data center will offer up to 20 MVA of gross power capacity and up to 10MW of IT load.

In the second half of 2020, there was a growing clamour amongst data centre operators and service providers in India. Their clarion call was to give “infrastructure” status to the sector, which in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic has become the lifeline for common people as well as organisations of all sizes.