Tech Marvel

Tulip Data City has definitely set a new milestone in the field of data centers, it stands out for its international-level designs for less power consumption and other considerations

It took us just eight months to complete our Tulip Data City,” says the proud Lt Col HS Bedi, chairman and MD of Tulip Telecom. Sitting composed in his cabin in Tulip’s office, when asked about what drove his need to build Asia’s largest data center in Bengaluru with an investment almost triple of his earlier data centers in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, Bedi smiles and states, “We wanted to give India a global identity.”

After its grand launch in February 2012 and by completing the project in mere 8 months’ deadline, Tulip has set a classic example of building one of its state-of-the-art data center, where technology is embedded to its core.

The company has strengthened its hold in data center arena with this facility in Bengaluru after attaining enough market share in enterprise data connectivity services, managed and network integrator services, and leading last mile connectivity services.

Tulip, whose customers include Bharti airtel, Aircel, Orange, AT&T, Matrix, Alstom SA, and Royal Philips Electronics NV, is now all set to tap a growing market for data centers in India, which is forecasted to grow 23% over the next 3 years to ` 11,800 crore, according to Cybermedia Research.

Journey So Far

Tulip in its endeavor to further strengthen its end-to-end data services offering, acquired 100% shares of SADA IT Parks at a value of ` 230 crore, which was a data center facility in Bengaluru. This added to the company’s fifth data center plan and was aimed to have the total data center space of approximately 10 lakh sq ft.