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Infosys launches operations in Mauritius
Port Louis, May 04: Software firm Infosys Technologies Ltd has launched operations in Mauritius, hoping to use the country`s French and English language skills to boost its European market share, a company official said on Monday.
Port Louis, May 04: Software firm Infosys Technologies Ltd has launched operations in Mauritius, hoping to use the country's French and English language skills to boost its European market share, a company official said on Monday.
The Nasdaq-listed firm opened a disaster recovery centre on the Indian Ocean island on April 26 and plans to develop software for its French-speaking European market, said head of operations for Infosys Technologies (Mauritius) Ramesh Ganapathy.
"We started looking at possible new locations in 2001 and finally decided that Mauritius was the right place for us to be," he told media agency in an interview. "The time zone is more suitable for us to serve our European clients as it is only a four-hours time difference, and the bilingual people will make it possible for us to focus on boosting our French market share."
Infosys, India's largest listed software services exporter, has about 350 clients worldwide, with the European market accounting for 20 per cent of its annual revenues. The North American market accounts for 65.5 per cent.
According to US GAAP accounting standards, the company had total revenues of over $1 billion in its latest fiscal year. Ganapathy said the company plans to invest $25 million and has already invested $2 million in setting up the disaster recovery centre -- where data is backed up should an attack or natural disaster hits its other offices.
"The disaster recovery centre will ensure that the continuity of our businesses will be maintained should anything, some kind of calamity, hit one of our main offices," he said.
"If there is a cyber attack where a hacker breaches the firewall and gets inside the network, our client will be able to shut down the operation at that particular server, and the hacker will not know it is being operated from Mauritius." Ganapathy said the company's long-term plan is to have a full-fledged bandwidth replicating the same operation at two locations -- one at the client's location and one in Mauritius.
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"We started looking at possible new locations in 2001 and finally decided that Mauritius was the right place for us to be," he told media agency in an interview. "The time zone is more suitable for us to serve our European clients as it is only a four-hours time difference, and the bilingual people will make it possible for us to focus on boosting our French market share."
Infosys, India's largest listed software services exporter, has about 350 clients worldwide, with the European market accounting for 20 per cent of its annual revenues. The North American market accounts for 65.5 per cent.
According to US GAAP accounting standards, the company had total revenues of over $1 billion in its latest fiscal year. Ganapathy said the company plans to invest $25 million and has already invested $2 million in setting up the disaster recovery centre -- where data is backed up should an attack or natural disaster hits its other offices.
"The disaster recovery centre will ensure that the continuity of our businesses will be maintained should anything, some kind of calamity, hit one of our main offices," he said.
"If there is a cyber attack where a hacker breaches the firewall and gets inside the network, our client will be able to shut down the operation at that particular server, and the hacker will not know it is being operated from Mauritius." Ganapathy said the company's long-term plan is to have a full-fledged bandwidth replicating the same operation at two locations -- one at the client's location and one in Mauritius.
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