Karnataka selects TCS for its State Data Center (SDC) project

Tata Consultancy Services announced

that it has won a contract for establishing and managing the State

Data Centre (SDC) for the state of Karnataka. The state-of-the-art

SDC will enhance the infrastructure required to consolidate the state

level applications and will be interoperable with the existing

infrastructure.

TCS is already associated with Center

for e-Governance 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 datacenter will come up in Vikas Soudha, and our existing

datacenter will become a Disaster Recovery Center. We would migrate

all the applications from the existing SDC to the new one,” said MN

Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary, e-Governance Department,

Government of Karnataka. “E-governance is the only good road to

good governance and while technology is expensive, not using

technology is even more expensive” he added.

“With our proven methodology and

expertise in implementing datacenters 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 and management control and

minimize overall cost of Data Management, IT Resource Management,

Deployment and other costs,” said Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Head and VP,

Government ISU.