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.