Investing in a top notch data center is a very crucial step towards building a website. You can have the best website design and development team on hand but if you don’t have the support of a well recognized data center company, then you might as well throw away your dreams of ever becoming a nationally or internationally recognized website.

A data center is like the kitchen of a restaurant. Without a fully functional kitchen with top of the line stoves, cooking equipment and grocery space, a kitchen staff cannot work efficiently. A data center is designed to give websites a secure server space.

When it comes to hosting service providers, India is fast catching up with the global trend as far as data center solutions are concerned. Depending on foreign hosting providers has a huge impact on the website speed.

Nationally recognized e-commerce websites have shifted their datacenter to India because of latency issues that were costing them a lot of paying customers.

Here is a list of the top ten datacenter companies that you will provide you a highly secure server space for your website.

1. Netmagic Solutions

Netmagic Solutions is without a doubt the leading hosting service provider in India. It originated in the year 1998 and was acquired by NTT Communications in the year 2012.

Its 7 data centers are located in Noida (Delhi-NCR), Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi. With customers like Flipkart, one can highly doubt their level of expertise in providing server spaces.

Netmagic is certified according to the terms set up by ISO 27001, ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 20000-1, which makes their datacenter, some of the very few green data centers in the country.

Their data centers are armed with multilevel security systems. These data centers are equipped with top of the line FM-200 fire detection, alarm and suppression systems.

2. CtrlS Datacenter

CtrlS is one of India’s leading web services provider. Its datacenters are located in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Delhi.  Its Mumbai based datacenter is India’s very first Tier 4 certified datacenters. This is the highest rating for a data center as far as security, performance, disaster management and server uptime is concerned.

The Tier 4 infrastructure includes:

Rack Space	3000
Datacenter space	1,00,000 ft
Power Capacity	18 MW
Security level	Eight zone for Delhi and Six Zone for Hyderabad
10 year scalability	Yes
BCP seats	1000

 

Their datacenter that is located in Mumbai is Asia’s largest and the world’s third largest Tier 4 data center.

All their data centers are in compliance with ISO 20000-1, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301. As far as green datacenters are concerned, CtrlS is as green as it gets. Their current customer base includes India’s leading global telecom majors, top Indian banks and many multinational conglomerates.



3. Sify

Sify was India’s first company to set up its own data center in India. It currently has 5 Tier III level data centers in Chennai, Bangalore, Noida and Mumbai where it has two data centers.

In terms of quality, their services have never failed. And they boast about having over 3000 enterprise level clients from departments of banking, finance, telecommunication and insurance.

Their latest data center was built in Noida. Its specifications include:

Specifications
Area	55,000 sq ft
Scalability level	high
Security level	Z level security
Carrier neutral services	Yes
Certification	Uptime Institute certification for Tier III

 

To know more about their datacenter in Noida, you can check out their brochure at http://www.noidadatacentre.sify.com/.

Their Noida based datacenter is also the most powerful, cost and scalability efficient datacenter.

4. Reliance

Reliance is one of India’s prime data center providers. It is the owner of a total of 9 Internet datacenters acquiring a total hosting space 2, 56,000 sq. ft. Reliance currently manages over 25,000 servers on a daily basis. They have 350 firewalls and are engaged in a daily transfer rate of 1600 terabyte.

These datacenters are connected to 52 other countries including US, UK Mid-East and Asia Pacific through flag Telecom.

Their datacenter in Chennai has the following specifications:

Specifications
Space	Ample space to scale anytime
Uptime	99.99%
ISO Certification	ISO 9001:2008, ISO 20000-1:2005 and ISO 27001
Location threat	Least active seismic zone 1
Technical support	24/7

 

5. Tulip Data City

Spanning over 900,000 square feet and having a capacity to hold 12,000 rack spaces, Tulip data center is the largest data center in Asia. It is a subsidiary of Tulip telecomm and it hopes to become a global candidate in terms of its data center services.

Every one of their servers is attached with a surveillance camera and there are pipelines over the ceilings that detect any chemical imbalances in the air. This data center is specifically built keeping in mind the needs of infrastructure efficiency as well as in accordance with environment friendly initiatives. The Tulip datacenter has maintained a delicate balance between the two and continues to maintain to do so.

Instead of cooling up the entire room and wasting energy, the Tulip datacenter rack space has a contained cooling system where each rack space is enclosed within a glass and gets cooled separately conserving a lot of energy that would otherwise have been spent in cooling the entire room.

It was built with the partnership of leading industrialist companies like Cisco, IBM, HP, Emerson, Corning, Panduit, Schneider Electric etc.

Along with managed hosting and Virtual server services they even provide IaaS to companies like Matrix, Cellular, Zapak and many more.

6. BSNL-SIS datacenter Hyderabad

Sai InfoSystem India and BSNL have collaborated to create 4 technically advanced and disaster equipped data centers in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Cochin, Cherthala and Hyderabad.

All these datacenters are Tier III and TIA 942 certified. They are in accordance with ISO 20001 and ISO 27001 protocols.

The IDC services they cater to include colocation services, hosting, managed hosting, cloud computing and even the expertise to build customer’s own IDC at their premise.

Their datacenters provide rack, floor and even cage space for servers. All their servers are kept in seismically braced racks and are under 24/7 surveillance.

Their datacenters are equipped with pre action Dry Pipe fire suppression system with computer controlled early smoke detection monitoring.

BSNL has been in the datacenter business for over two decades and provides state of the art datacenter services to all its customers.

7. GPX Global Systems Inc

Located in Mumbai, GPX Global Systems Inc is South Asia’s first Uptime Institute Tier IV certified fault tolerant infrastructure. It is not designed for providing individual or dedicated hosting services. It is made to provide access to multiple carriers and multiple ISPs, giving the customers the opportunity to choose from the most competitively priced interconnection partners for their business needs.

With GPX global systems customers are not restricted to one ISP, hardware or software provider and even carriers. They get a platform to negotiate and get the best customized solutions for their business needs.

Their unique business model has made them a sought for choice.

8. Net4 Datacenter Mumbai

Net4 is one of India’s leading Cloud Hosting, Network service and Datacenter service providers. They currently own 7 data centers in India which are located in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi and Pune.

All of their datacenters are ISO 27001 certified.  They offer sophisticated solutions for protection from hackers. All their datacenters are installed with FM 200 fire suppression systems.

Their advanced HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning) systems provide an optimal temperature for servers to operate in.

Their current customers include Wipro, Godrej, Vodafone, ONGC, Reliance, Sahara, SBI, Siemens, TCS and many more. With such a heavy duty client list they don’t need to make a promise for their state of art hosting services. They provide some of the most secure and reliable data center services in the country.

They are also India’s largest hosting services providers with over 100,000 websites hosted in their data centers.



9. Web Werks

As far and security and reliability is concerned, Web Werks’ data centers have left no stone unturned. Their services are customer friendly and they give their clients 5 facilities to choose from for their hosting services. They personally own 5 data centers.

3 of which are located in India, out of which 2 are in Mumbai and the third is in Pune. Their data centers are built on the promise of 99.9% server uptime.

Here is a list of the specifications and features of all their data center facilities.

Specifications
Carrier Neutral Datacenter	Yes
24/7 physical and software security	Yes
24/7 surveillance	Yes
Restricted Access	Yes
HVAC with separate cooling zones	Yes
Environmental monitoring systems	Yes
Cold aisle containment for max. cooling and efficiency	Yes
ISO certification	ISO 9001,27001,20000 and CERT-IN
Humidity level management system	Yes
Early warning fire alarm system	Yes

 They have an excellent on deck staff hired for all their locations which makes Web Werks one of the most trusted facilities in this country.

10. TATA Communications

TATA Communications is one of India’s most well know ISPs. They currently own over 12 datacenters that are located in prominent cities in India. It is a highly competitive global competitor in terms of its data center facilities.

All their datacenters come with the promise of efficiency and 99.9% server uptime.

Here are some specifications that are common to all their data centers.

Specifications
Server uptime	99.982%
Generator	N+1
CRAC/HVAC	N+1
Temperature	22 =/- degree Celsius
Fire suppression system	FM227
Fire detection system	Honeywall
Biometric access control	Yes
24/7 surveillance and physical monitoring	Yes
Restricted Access with man trap in server hall	Yes

 With such extraneous measures in terms of security, one can hardly argue that TATA Communication’s datacenters are anything but the best. Their vast datacenter network gives you the opportunity to pick a location of your choice.

This list of the best datacenters services in India will help you choose the right hosting services provider based on the needs of your business. Enterprise level customers would find their best services if they seek for companies that exclusively deal with clients who own enterprise level businesses.