The Hindu Business Line : Wipro opens hub for remote services in Bangalore

The company has invested over Rs 22.5 crore in GCC, which provides customers a secured managed services environment, said Mr Suresh Vaswani, President, Wipro Infotech.

"The GCC has been designed to specifically address some of the key issues such as security challenges that clients face when they outsource remote infrastructure management," said Mr Vaswani, who also heads Wipro's Technology Infrastructure Services (TIS) and Testing. "It ensures multi-location service delivery for robust risk mitigation, enabling clients to see live business impact of IT services on 24x7 basis," he added.

Quoting a Nasscom study, Mr Vaswani said the market for infrastructure services through global delivery was in excess of $55 billion, while the services out of India were worth a billion dollars. Of this, $450 million came from outsourcing partners such as Wipro, while the rest came from the captive facilities of multinationals. Wipro's exports from infrastructure management services stood at $95 million in FY05 and were growing 68-70 per cent annually, he said.

Mr Prasanna G.K., Senior Vice-President, TIS, Wipro Technologies said IMS was among the fastest growing services of the company and a key growth driver.

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