Ricoh expands Kolkata office to strengthen cloud service offerings

NEW DELHI: Ricoh India Ltd, a market leader in Printing & Document solutions and IT services, has announced the expansion of its existing data center facility in Kolkata in order to strengthen its public cloud services offerings.

Ricoh India had set up the data center in Kolkata in 2013, which was a flagship facility for providing Innovative Ricoh Cloud services to its customers. Currently, the Kolkata data center caters to more than 200+ domestic and international customers including Indian Government banks.

The press release indicated that Ricoh runs its 24x7x365 Cloud Services operations from this facility, being managed and monitored round-the-clock by data center professionals in a physically and virtually secured facility. It also provides fully-managed virtual servers and dedicated servers, backup and disaster recovery solutions & services, managed email services, co-location services, cloud infrastructure to its public and private customers through its Cloud Data Center services portfolio.

The ISO 27001:2013 certified Data center has now been augmented into a Tier-3 facility. The data center acts as the primary hub for Information Security and complement the existing Data Centre of Ricoh India at its Head Office in New Delhi.

Commenting on the expansion Manoj Kumar, Managing Director and CEO, Ricoh India Limited, said, “At Ricoh India, we are dedicated to helping our customers embrace change through innovation. And the expansion of this facility is a testimony of our endeavor to tap the growing potential of the public cloud services. In addition to this, Ricoh will also provide a single umbrella to its customers and be a one-stop- solution provider for all their cloud services requirements under its IT Services Portfolio.”

He also said, “We see a huge potential in this part of the country especially with strong initiatives by the state government to encourage development of industry and generation of employment opportunities for this region. We feel that this is the right time for us to invest here and expand state of the art facilities like this one.”