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City name: Bangalore

{Bengaluru} , capital of state of

Karnataka

Country: India

Population: 8,425,970 [approx]

Language Spoken: Kannada

Currency: Indian rupee (INR)


World's third-biggest data centre in Bangalore

It's a fortress You have to be escorted by a security official till the point where a company executive takes over. X-ray scanners scan you as you enter. There are access-controlled turnstiles.

It's Hardeep Singh Bedi's boldest venture—an absolutely world-class data centre, Tulip Telecom. It's in Bangalore and it's the third-biggest in the world, with a floor space of 9 lakh sq ft. That's roughly equal to 10 international match sized football fields.

Today, it has 2,000 cities covered on wireless and 300 cities on fibre (wires).


The Bangalore data centre, which was launched in February and on which he has already spent Rs 415 crore. A data centre cannot have the slightest bit of downtime. So everything in the data centre, including the power sources, is duplicated or triplicated .

"I chose Bangalore because it is in seismic zone 1 (least prone to earthquakes). It is well connected, midway between Mumbai and Chennai, which are the landing stations for international fibre. And it has a lot of IT and hardware skills, so I can get support quickly if something were to go wrong," says Bedi.

HP, IBM and NTT are already customers for the data centre.


Data centre- a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems

Fortress- a person or thing not susceptible to outside influence.

Turnstiles- a mechanical gate consisting of revolving horizontal arms fixed to a vertical post, allowing only one person at a time to pass through.

Venture- a business enterprise, typically one involving risk.

Downtime- time during which a computer or other machine is out of action.

Agglomerate- collection of things.

Vocabulary


English French

Data centre centre de données

Fortress forteresse

Turnstiles tourniquets

Venture entreprise

Downtime temps d'arrêt

Agglomerate s'agglomérer


Lal Bagh- Glass House

Bangalore Palace,built to look like a smaller replica of the Windsor Castle in England.


Metro Rail Airport

It has been awarded "India's best airport" for the year 2011

Operation Began October 20, 2011


The Vidhana Soudha is the seat of the state legislature of Karnataka.

Bangalore Institute of Technology is an engineering college


Silicon valley of IndiaBagmane Tech Park

Garden city of of India


Tipu Sultan's fort and palace

Maitreya- Buddha Pyramid .

Tipu Sultan known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore.

World’s largest meditational pyramid


The Silicon Valley of India is a nickname of the Indian city of Bangalore. The name signifies Bangalore's status as a hub for information technology (IT) companies in India and is a comparative reference to the original Silicon Valley, based around Santa Clara Valley, California, a major hub for IT companies in the United States.

Bagmane Tech Park is a software technology park in India. The park is situated at Sir C V Raman Nagar in Bangalore. This park is built and maintained by Bagmane Group. The park shares its boundaries with HAL and DRDO and is near the HAL Airport. It is equipped with all modern class facilities and is surrounded by a lake near the entrance. It also contains a shopping mall, and a 4.7 hectare lake in its centre.

The park is home to some of the most prominent companies in world like Informatica, Cypress Semiconductor, Motorola, Dover Corporation, Yahoo!, Oracle Corporation, HP, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, Texas Instruments, LinkedIn, MphasiS, Samsung India Software Operations, First Indian Corporation, Sasken, Novell, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Ogilvy, Volvo, Dell, Tesco Hindustan Service, Tecnotree, and Saggezza India Pvt Ltd www.saggezza.com.

http://www.saggezza.com/


Lal Bagh (Kannada: ಲಾಲ ್ ಬಾಗ ್, Hindi: लाल बाग़) or Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens, meaning The Red Garden in English, is a famous botanical garden in southern Bangalore, India. The garden was originally commissioned by Hyder Ali, the ruler of Mysore, and later finished by his son Tipu Sultan. It has a famous glass house which hosts an annual flower show. Lal Bagh houses India's largest collection of tropical plants, has an aquarium and a lake, and is one of the main tourist attractions in Bangalore.

UB City is the biggest commercial property project in Bangalore, India. Pioneered by the

chairman of UB Group, Dr.Vijay Mallya , in Joint Venture with Prestige Group [1], it is built on 13 acres (53,000 m2) of land and hosts 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2) of high-end commercial, retail and service apartment space. [2] UB City has four towers namely, UB Tower (19 Floors), Comet (11 Floors), Canberra (17 Floors) and Concorde (19 Floors).

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