Launches Bangalore Datacenter to support India’s fast-growing developer & startup ecosystem
DigitalOcean has announced the launch of its new datacenter in Bangalore, India. DigitalOcean will continue to offer a single pricing plan across all of its regions worldwide, including Bangalore. This means SSD-enabled cloud servers starting at $5 USD per month, and identical pricing for all additional services like bandwidth, snapshots and beyond. Bangalore will be DigitalOcean’s 8th region globally, following New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Singapore, London, Frankfurt, and Toronto.
Today, India is home to the fastest growing ecosystem of startups and entrepreneurs, with approximately 4,000 startups launching this past year. Considering the number of software developers throughout India will grow to over 5 million by the year 2018, the region is one of the most important technology markets in the world. DigitalOcean has hired a local team and has also partnered with NASSCOM’s 10,000 Startups initiative to grow and support the startup ecosystem in India.
As per the release, the Bangalore datacenter will feature DigitalOcean’s latest servers and network architecture, which will ensure a consistent and seamless experience for users everywhere regardless of which region they select. DigitalOcean’s second datacenter in Asia will enable local service delivery to over a billion people in India alone and improve performance for neighboring users.
Ben Uretsky, CEO and Co-Founder of DigitalOcean said, “India is poised to unleash a tremendous amount of innovation in the next decade “We want to empower the next generation of software companies by providing them robust and easy to use cloud infrastructure they need to grow.”
Varma Namburi, Lead of IT Operations at VTiger, the popular open source CRM used by more than 100,000 businesses commented, “DigitalOcean enables us to operate at peak efficiency. We focus on product engineering and innovation, and they take care of the rest.”
