14-Oct-2021, Thursday

India’s Best Workplaces for Women 2021

Hyderabad, 25-09-2021 – Pi DATACENTERS® has been recognized by Great Place to Work® India among the Top 50 – India’s Best Workplaces™ for Women 2021 (Mid-size Companies Category)!

As a global authority on workplace culture, Great Place to Work® has been studying employee experience and people practices across organizations for over three decades. Every year, more than 10,000 organizations from over 60 countries partner with Great Place to Work® Institute for assessment, benchmarking and planning of actions to strengthen their workplace culture.

In India, the research conducted by Great Place to Work® has focused on the state of trust in workplaces, what drives employee experience, and its impact on the business outcomes. The research reveals that there is a clear and direct relationship between employee engagement and financial performance, and that best workplaces consistently outperform major stock indices in India.

“One thing the Best Workplaces™ for Women have taught us is that irrespective of the challenges posed by the pandemic or even the industry they operate in – they are intentional about building a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment. Voices of their women employees, the quality of inclusive practices and actions taken towards equitable distribution of power within the organization is a testimony to that,” said Sandhya Ramesh, Head of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Practice at Great Place to Work® India.

As an outcome of their study on India’s Best Workplaces™ for Women 2021, Great Place to Work® India has released their research report that identifies what sets the Best Workplaces™ apart from the rest. The report and the complete list of India’s Best Workplaces™ for Women 2021 can be viewed here.

In India, the Institute partners with more than 1100 organizations annually, across over 22 industries, to help them build High-Trust, High-Performance Cultures™ designed to deliver sustained business results. Hundreds of CEOs and CXOs from India Inc. are part of the great place community that is committed to the vision of making India a great place to work FOR ALLTM.

21-Jul-2021, Wednesday

Pi DATACENTERS announces ‘Strategic Core Council (SCC)’, as part of its organisation restructuring.

Pi DATACENTERS today announced the re-appointment of 4 officers as part of their strategic growth plan. Pi had a stupendous run over last 14 months, at the midst of the ongoing pandemic. It acted as a catalyst for many businesses across India, handholding them to effectively adopt the strategy of migrating from inhouse legacy IT infrastructure to next generation co-location data center and cloud.

This announcement comes as part of the company’s strategic expansion plan across India. In addition, to the datacenters at Amaravati (AP) and Kochi (Kerala), the company plans to open three more datacenters in India making it a unique platform across Tier I and Tier II Indian cities.

Speaking to the media, Kalyan Muppaneni, Founder and CEO, Pi DATACENTERS said, “As the industry has been challenged to its limits in last year and half, Pi has been at the forefront in helping businesses to digitally transform. Our Uptime Institute TIER IV certified data center solutions and enterprise cloud Harbour1, has helped enterprises, achieve the much-needed business continuity, operational excellence and significant TCO optimisation at these trying times. As part of our strategic growth plan, I am very excited to announce that we are forming a Strategic Core Council (SCC) to help execute our strategic growth roadmap. Along with me the SCC would comprise of 5 members – Manu Sharma (Chief Financial Officer), Debmalya Dey Roy (Deb) (Chief Revenue Officer), Sunder Muthevi (Chief Technology Officer) and Abhinav Kotagiri, (Director & Chief Datacenter Delivery Officer). SCC has a combined datacenter infrastructure and cloud experience of over 100 man-years from across the globe. The fully empowered SCC would focus on the core areas for the company and its growth charters around enterprise data center colocation, cloud, customer experience & advocacy, skill development, future expansions, and M&A strategies.”

26-Apr-2021, Monday

Pi Continues to be a Great Place to Work®

Pi® has synonymized work culture activism. It fosters employees to open up to new challenges and learning as they take up the trajectory of the work life. It nurtures each employee through unique learning vectors, depending on the employee’s, personality and aptitude. Pi® thrives to create a workplace that values and empowers it’s employees. A tireless effort to change the job landscape, that makes work an experience to relish. As a work place, Pi® echoes, clear vision , mission and orientation. A healthy and positive workplace that adds to productivity, flexibility and resilience. As an organization Pi® believes in trust and hence employees are encouraged to take control over what they are doing and own it. This is reciprocated with employees taking higher responsibility for their own productivity.

Being respected and valued, adds to the zeal that makes Pi® a Great Place To Work®!

08-Apr-2021, Thursday

Kalyan being conferred, CEO Of The Year, Information Technology Industry, by World Leadership Congress

Kalyan Muppaneni, Chairman & CEO, Pi DATACENTERS, gets awarded the coveted CEO Of The Year Award for Information Technology Industry by World Leadership Congress.

Deservingly so, Kalyan is a visionary, technology leader and an industry veteran of more than 2 decades, including 15+years in leadership roles with Intel Corporation in the Silicon Valley, US.

He is the mind and man behind Pi DATACENTERS, Asia’s Largest Uptime Institute Certified TIER IV Data Center and Harbour1®, India’s first Enterprise Cloud Platform

His extensive experience in multiple disciplines of IT, backed with strong business acumen and global organizational leadership, makes him stand out.

Kalyan has been leading the organization, towards amplifying a quality digital footprint in India and contributing towards accelerating the cloud journey of Indian enterprises. Through his aspiration to bring in world-class standards to India and be able to contribute in taking digitization to the last mile, Kalyan is contributing significantly to the Digital-India & Make-In India crusade

30-Mar-2021, Tuesday

Our current and future datacenters and enterprise cloud fabric are modularly designed keeping dynamic data surge in the formula

Data center growth in India: From a Hyperscale datacenter perspective, there are two key elements that matter the most – Availability of on-demand scalable space and power. Out of these two, Power, takes the podium. With the need for high-end compute processing reaching a mammoth level, the demand for uninterrupted quality power is at its peak like never before. From that perspective, if we look at India, we find ourselves underprepared to support such hyperscale demand for sustainable and green energy at a lower TCO.

The demand for modular colocation is not only rising from the global hyperscale enterprises in the space of social media, retail, and technology, but also, from many large Indian businesses. If we do a 10 years’ demand forecast analysis keeping in mind the hyperscale/colocation clients, it will run into several hundreds of megawatts of power demand. Hence a lot more capacity needs to be built that would serve industry verticals.

Hybrid Data centers – While we still see a significant capacity of data being hosted On-Premises by enterprises across industry verticals, there is a visible shift in demand where enterprises are factoring collocation of their partial data to a third party professionally run Data center. We can easily predict that eventually 20% capacity may still remain On-Premises, while 80% of the capacity would be outsourced to third party data centers. Another smart way to create cost and operational linearity.

Security & Data center: Pi DATACENTERS, is a unique story of being India’s first Uptime Institute TIER IV certified hyperscale data center on one hand and on the other hand, owns the only native Indian enterprise cloud platform, Harbour1. Both data center and cloud, operate on IOT enabled uniform federated architecture, across multiple locations and cloud point of presences within India. This enables businesses to run their mission critical workloads seamlessly with 99.995% availability and complying to data localisation.

A year back, Pi introduced, its integrated Virtual Workspaces solutions, for businesses. This has aided to the productivity for professionals working from home and remote locations. The latest introduction was HarbourFront, Pi’s indigenous CDN on cloud. Its multi path routing delivers content faster and in a very highly secured manner. This has come as a boon for businesses who thrive on live streaming and content on demand. For Indian businesses and global businesses operating in India, Pi has evolved as synonymous, to Business Empathy and Customer Centricity.

Readiness to meet the demand: Over the last few months businesses have witnessed enormous growth in terms of network traffic, increase in system complexity and content rich data, especially in the fields of video-streaming, gaming, e-healthcare and online education, to name a few. With this unprecedented growth, the demand for high performance computing with greater density is at its peak. Looking at this major shift, Pi has invested both dollars and time into product innovation and service excellence, to make data availability, delivery, and consumption seamless to the end user.

With the ever-growing data travelling transcontinental over the wire, storage and network play an important role. We have designed, our internal cloud network to handle loads up to 100 Gigs on a spine – leaf architecture with redundant routes. Similarly, we have enabled scale as you grow models, where clients can scale their compute, network and storage on demand basis their business needs and seasonal spikes.Our current and future data centers and enterprise cloud fabric are modularly designed keeping dynamic data surge in the formula. We are future ready.

07-Oct-2020, Wednesday

Pi & Yotta Collaborate

Pi Data Centers Pvt. Ltd. and Yotta Infrastructure Solutions have come together in collaboration for offering data center & cloud services to their customers. This collaboration is a landmark and the first of its kind strategic initiative taken up in the history of the data center industry in India. Both Pi and Yotta are Uptime Institute Certified Tier IV Data Center organizations that guarantee an SLA of 99.995% Availability of their customer’s workloads.

Owing to this collaboration, customers of Yotta can leverage Pi’s hyperscale data center facilities located in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh and in Kochi, Kerala. On the other hand, Pi’s customers can leverage Yotta’s data center in Mumbai. This will provide scope for both Pi and Yotta to cater to more enterprises and help them in availing highly available, secured, and state-of-art data center facilities.

Rest assured, this collaboration will encourage the data center community in the country to come forward to venture into similar strategic alliances aimed at delivering improved service quality, collaborative innovation, Industry leadership in establishing India as the preferred data center destination in the world. Pi and Yotta, together aim at enhancing customer experience, improving standardization across the data centers in the country, enabling data localization, and much more.

We extend our sincere gratitude to Shri Kalyan Muppaneni, Founder & CEO at Pi, Shri Sunil Gupta, Managing Partner & CEO at Yotta, Shri Bhaskar Vadlamani, COO at Pi, and Shri Manish Israni, Executive Vice President & CIO at Yotta for their cooperation and support in making this collaboration a reality.

As a part of the Hiranandani Group, Yotta represents a trinity of Real estate acumen, Data Center expertise, and Power generation capability. All brought together to offer scalability, flexibility & quality on large economies of scale, leading to unparalleled savings for our customers.

For media & other inquiries, please write to us at marcom@pidatacenters.com

03-Feb-2020, Monday

Economic Times featured a recent interview of Kalyan Muppaneni about India achieving the goal of $5 trillion economy

In October last year, Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Finance Minister of India acknowledged the Prime Minister’s vision of transforming India into a $5 trillion economy and a global economic powerhouse by 2024-25, as “challenging” but “realizable.”

Since then many people from different professions and backgrounds have shared their views and comments on this vision. While few of them have supported this audacious goal, the remaining mass has already concluded this as an impossible task. But interestingly, not many of them have recommended any solid measures that the country should take up in order to achieve this goal. However, after Mrs. Sitharaman presented the Budget 2020 last Saturday, Mr. Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry said that the budget will prepare India to become a $5 trillion economy.

Kalyan explained how inclusive growth from rural-India will be one critical factor for the country in achieving the audacious goal of $5 trillion economy. Click the link https://youtu.be/S3XH-WPdd2A to watch the interview video. Kalyan highlighted the importance of bridging the current socio-economic gap between the rural and urban parts of the country in the interview.

05-Nov-2019, Tuesday

Kalyan Muppaneni, Founder & CEO, Pi explains how the captive model of data center in India is being overtaken by colocation model at a significant rate

“Most of the demand coming currently is geared towards cloud, as clients are clearly looking for speed of delivery and an OPEX model. Given this market scenario, we have several products around cloud offerings. This includes As a Service solutions, namely Security as a Service, Back up as a Service, Disaster Recovery as a Service,Containers as well as several other customized IaaS and PaaS solutions,” says Kalyan Muppaneni, Founder & CEO – Pi DATACENTERS®.

And thus the captive model of data center in India is being overtaken by colocation model at a significant rate. It is expected that the consolidation of data centers will cannibalize the captive data center market, and colocation market will grow exponentially keeping in view that the outsourcing of data centers will help reduce the operating cost significantly for the clients.

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22-Jul-2019, Monday

Great Place To Work® Institute Recognized Pi As One Of The Top 50 Great Mid-Size Workplaces in India !

Mumbai, 19th July 2019: The glittering event hosted by Great Place To Work® Institute at Four Seasons, Mumbai was filled with cheering buzz and applauds ! The Great Place to Work® Institute (GPTW) recognized India’s best mid-sized companies for building High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™ workplaces.

Pi, already recognized as one of India’s Top 50 IT/ITES Companies, was also felicitated for being one of the #50GreatWorkplaces in the category of Top 50 Great Mid-Size Workplaces in India, as recognized by GPTW – India.

Speaking after the event, Mr. Kalyan Muppaneni, Founder & CEO, Pi DATACENTERS said, “I would like to thank the GPTW Institute for this recognition and everyone associated with Pi for extending their support in building a high-performance organization that prioritizes perfection and excellence in delivering services to our customers.”

Mr. Vishal Nevatia, Managing Partner of Truenorth (erstwhile India Value Find) was the Chief Guest at the award ceremony. The dignitaries and guests at the event rediscovered magic with Suhani Shah – The Mentalist.

19-Jul-2019, Friday

DatacenterDynamics (DCD) Recognized Pi As India’s Best Multi-Tenant Data Center Service Provider !

Bengaluru, 18th July 2019: Pi hits another milestone in its ongoing journey towards perpetuating positive disruption in technology and innovation.

“I am delighted to announce another proud moment @Pi® as we just got recognized by DatacenterDynamics (DCD) for being the Best Multi-Tenant Data Center in India. We will continue to innovate in order to make digital transformation for enterprises easier, faster and TCO optimal”, said Kalyan Muppaneni, Founder & CEO, Pi DATACENTERS®.