RailTel Corporation of India Limited has bagged two separate orders pertaining to data centre management and cloud services, together amounting to Rs 541.1 million (excluding GST) which becomes Rs 688.6 million (including GST) from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence.
One order is for supply, installation and commissioning for enhancement of data centre and its networking infrastructure. This work order is valued at Rs 227.7 million (excluding GST) which after including GST amounts to Rs 268.7 million (including GST). The second order is for supply, installation and commissioning of DRDO on-premise cloud services. This second work order is valued at Rs 313.4 million (excluding GST) which after including GST amounts to Rs 369.9 million (including GST).
Under the first order, the scope of work entails turnkey solution for enhancing the data centre and its networking infrastructure to cater to the needs of future and enhanced IT needs. This project is specifically focussed to enhance the IT/non-IT/networking infrastructure to facilitate the deployment of cloud services for entire DRDO community. It will also help in setting up of security operation centre (SOC). This project will safeguard the huge data, ensure uninterrupted services and future planning of new application and operational requirements. This project is aimed to upgrade the data centres at DRDO headquarter to bring up a world class facility.
DRDO data centre is envisioned as the shared, reliable and secure infrastructure services centre for hosting and managing the IT services of DRDO Community. After up gradation, data centre would provide many functionalities like central repository, secure data storage, online delivery of services, IT services portal, disaster recovery, remote management and service integration. It would facilitate secure, reliable and efficient delivery of IT services thereby improving end-user satisfaction. Disaster recovery services are required to prevent either man-made or natural disasters from causing expensive service disruptions.
Under the second order, the scope of work entails turnkey solution for deploying a DRDO cloud over their wide area network to cater to the needs of DRDO community for various needful IT services. DRDO decided to migrate to new scalable hardware platform by creating DRDO cloud to provision for storage space, hosting of new application and distributed computer resources. It will benefit the organisation to perform day-to-day activities smoothly. It will help in the efficient utilisation of resources with centralised management and monitoring.
Commenting on the development, Aruna Singh, chairman and managing director, RailTel, said, “RailTel has established itself as a prominent information and communication technology (ICT) provider and as one of the largest neutral telecom infrastructure providers in the country. Securing these prestigious projects from DRDO is an endorsement of RailTel’s key position in the domestic IT space based on its strong technology expertise, process excellence and superior execution capabilities. With this, RailTel is well- positioned to win other ministries, central government and state government data centres and cloud service projects as well.”
