Indian IT service provider Wipro Technologies has signed a deal with Citibank to take over the operation and management of its data centre in Meerbusch Germany. The company intends to use the site to support other outsourcing clients and expects the data centre to support the delivery of its mainframe, Windows, Unix, Linux and AS/400 outsourcing services. The Meerbusch, Germany centre will be Wipros first data centre facility in Europe and will enable the company to offer a full portfolio of infrastructure management offerings to its global clients.

In addition, the company plans to extend its Dynamically Adaptive Infrastructure (DAI) cloud platform to the German data centre to deliver outsourcing offerings in Europe that can be managed remotely, delivered in the companys data centre or installed on the companys cloud infrastructure.

Citi will lease back office and data centre space from Wipro for at least 30 months, and Wipro will provide Citi with facilities management and physical infrastructure management services during the period.

Sameer Kishore, president of Wipro Infocrossing, the data centre outsourcing practice of Wipro, said: The addition of a data centre in Europe represents an important milestone in the companys growth strategy. In 2007, Wipro acquired Infocrossing, a US-based provider of data centre outsourcing offerings.

The addition of the data centre delivery capability enabled Wipro to compete more aggressively for large, total outsourcing engagements in the US. The Meerbusch facility will enable Wipro to extend its capabilities to the European market and strengthen the Companys ability to compete for global outsourcing opportunities.