Mumbai, India - October 03, 2024 - Web Werks – Iron Mountain Data Centers, a leading provider of data center services in India, today announced a strategic partnership with Lightstorm, a pioneer in hyperscale networking in South Asia to deliver robust, scalable, and secure digital infrastructure for Indian enterprises and ISPs. By combining their expertise in data centers, cloud and networking, the partnership aims to revolutionize the digital landscape in India. Supplemented with competitive pricing models that leverage economies of scale, effectively reducing the total cost of IT infrastructure ownership, this approach ensures efficient resource utilization while increasing access to data center and cloud resources for enterprises in India. This partnership also prioritizes security and compliance with advanced measures that protect sensitive data and adhere to both local and international regulatory standards, providing businesses with the security they need.
With enhanced digital infrastructure which is scalable, reliable, cost-effective, and secure; enterprises and ISPs can now benefit from simplicity and efficient management of their complex compute, storage and connectivity resources. Through faster data transmission, enhanced resilience, uninterrupted operations, reduced costs; such cloud and connectivity infrastructure can enable enterprise with complete control for innovation and growth, instead of remaining cost centres.
Nikhil Rathi, Founder and CEO of Web Werks - Iron Mountain Data Centers, commented on the partnership, stating, "Our partnership with Lightstorm is a significant step forward in our mission to empower Indian enterprises and ISPs with the robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure they need to thrive in the digital age. By combining our extensive data center footprint with Lightstorm's cutting-edge networking solutions, we're not just enhancing connectivity—we're revolutionizing the way businesses operate in an increasingly competitive and rapidly evolving digital landscape."
Amajit Gupta, Group MD and CEO of Lightstorm, added, "We’re excited to partner with Web Werks- Iron Mountain Data Centers, and grow our network fabric across South Asia. This partnership brings our Network-as-a-Service product family called Polarin to Indian enterprises, which enables their digital transformation with seamless connectivity to almost any combination of data center and cloud resources, deployed instantly."
Web Werks – Iron Mountain Data Centers and Lightstorm will provide access to the latest technologies and innovations in data center management and networking, supported by dedicated teams offering 24/7 assistance to ensure smooth operations and quick resolution of any issues.
About Web Werks – Iron Mountain Data Centers
Web Werks has put together an extensive range of colocation and hosting services, designed to deliver wholesale, retail, and hyperscale hosting facilities via strategically planned Tier 3 data center facilities in Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune, with a focus on strengthening the carrier, cloud, and content-neutral interconnection ecosystem for businesses across the nation. Web Werks has undertaken work on data centers in Kolkata and Chennai as well. Web Werks' joint venture engagement with Iron Mountain Data Centers in April 2021 has opened up the ecosystem, access to over 21 data centers across three continents – US, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions, offering a globally interconnected ecosystem. Web Werks supports a broad base of well-known brands from Enterprise, BFSI, SMEs, and OTTs who require the ability to efficiently and effectively scale their online businesses. For more information, visit https://www.webwerks.in.
Web Werks – Iron Mountain Data Centers have been leaders in India for the past two decades. Each of our facilities is a high-density, hyperscale, and AI-powered infrastructure, offering best-in-class service support and uptime. We aim to maintain and keep raising these standards with new data centers across India to ensure that our clients achieve business efficiency by addressing all concerns regarding their data center needs with unprecedented ease.
About Lightstorm
Launched in 2020, Lightstorm started with the SmartNet brand which was built to be a carrier-neutral, low latency and DCI-focused fiber network in India. As of today, SmartNet has expanded into 7 major cities across India with ~25,000 km of route fiber connected to ~64 data centers. Its global NaaS offering, Polarin is an interconnection network platform that enables seamless, instantaneous, and scalable connectivity between data centers, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, internet exchanges, and more. With the success in India, Lightstorm further expanded into Indonesia in 2022, replicating a similar business model with first project targeting to roll out ~1,000 km of fiber and connecting ~40 data centers in Greater Jakarta. Looking forward, Lightstorm targets to continue expanding its geographical coverage to other Southeast Asian and Middle East countries and enriching its products and services to ultimately establish a leading next-gen cloud network infrastructure platform with assets across APAC and interconnecting them with the US West Coast.