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Karur
Vysya, Bharti tie up for data centre
Our Banking Bureau
11 June 2002
 Chennai:
Karur Vysya Bank
(KVB) will be setting up a Rs 10-crore centralised data-processing
centre in collaboration with the Bharti group. Bharti Broadband
Networks Ltd will provide the infrastructure for the centre, which
will be housed at Bharti Towers, Chennai.
 KVB
chairman P T Kuppuswamy says the data centre will facilitate
interconnection of the bank’s computerised branches. At present
140 of the bank’s 211 branches are computerised on a standalone
basis. With the data centre in operation, these branches can be
fully interconnected. The centre will be managed by KVB’s IT
personnel.
Bharti Telenet chief
executive officer K Krishnan says Bharti proposes to offer similar
facilities to other customers also. "The group is talking to
three other potential customers."
Bharti Telenet has launched its basic operations Touchtel in
Chennai and Madurai. Bharti Towers in Chennai houses the  telecom
complex that has the main switching unit of Touchtel’s
fixed-telephone services.
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