Maharatna PSU, NTPC is leading with a very high degree of computerization in all spheres of its operations such as plant O&M, project management, material procurement, customer relationship management, business intelligence, paperless initiative and other business functions. To cater to the ever-growing business needs of the organization, NTPC has two data centers: The Primary data center at Noida and the disaster recovery site at Hyderabad.
Both the Primary DC & the disaster recovery centre is designed and built conforming to the best global practices, modular scalable design and TIA-942 basic guidelines for Rated-3 Data Center. Both the data centres are ISO 27001 certified.
The data centers are concurrently maintainable, with redundant capacity components and multiple distribution paths serving the high availability requirement.
The DCs at Noida and Hyderabad host NTPC’s business application, which provides services such as SAP ERP, PRADIP (paperless initiative), non-ERP applications, active directory service (ADS) and network equipment. Express Computer interacted with S V Srinivas Rao, CGM – IT, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).
