Broadbandindia Magazine

Cisco, the global leader in networks and Tata Consultancy Service, (TCS) leading IT and outsourcing services provider, have entered into a strategic alliance. The alliance will focus to develop and deliver information technology (IT) service solutions to help customers build or evolve next generation data centers by taking advantage of the network as a platform.

Initially, the alliance will focus on India as well as mutual enterprise customers in the US and UK in the key verticals of banking and finance services, telecom, government, along with small and medium sized business.

Under this partnership, TCS will build a new technology practice focused on Cisco’s data center networking and security solutions. Further, both companies have called for setting up a Cisco Technology Lab at the TCS campus in Chennai.

Moreover, the lab will allow TCS to develop network-based data center solutions, test frameworks, develop skills and certify employees in Cisco data center technologies. It aims to showcase proof-of-concepts, IT and networking technologies for clientspecific business processes and services.