TCS Enterprise Cloud Platform Wins the Equinix Best Innovation Award in Australia

TCS Won the Award for its Demonstrated Ability in Assisting Customers in the ANZ Region Navigate their Digital Transformation Journey

SYDNEY | MUMBAI, July 30, 2019: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, announced that it has won the Best Innovation Award in Australia at the 2018 Equinix Partner Awards.

The Best Innovation Award is presented to the partner that has most consistently demonstrated the ability to assist customers in navigating their digital transformation journey. TCS won the award for the launch of the next-generation TCS Enterprise Cloud Platform (ECP), a state-of-the-art private cloud offering, that is helping customers in Australia and New Zealand gain greater business agility.

Jeremy Deutsch, President of Asia-Pacific, Equinix, said, “We congratulate TCS for winning the Innovation Award, which is due recognition for the outstanding work the organisation does in enabling its customers’ digital transformation. Working directly with Equinix, TCS has been able to provide two customers with a bespoke private cloud capability to more efficiently modernise their infrastructure and seamlessly connect to suppliers, carriers, clouds and peers. This effort exemplifies the excellent results that come from the collaborative partnership Equinix has enjoyed with TCS and we look forward to continuing our relationship to solve customer challenges.”

Vikram Singh, Country Head, TCS ANZ, said, “We are very proud to win this year’s Innovation Award. This adds to a memorable year so far for TCS, with our Business 4.0™ framework translating into many large transformational engagements with customers, and the introduction of the TCS ECP platform in Australia and New Zealand, providing an advanced software-defined approach that helps customer gain agility and future-proof their operations stack.”

Satishchandra Doreswamy, Global Head, Cloud Infrastructure, TCS, said, “We have extended our state-of-the-art cloud offerings to customers in this region to reinforce the pivotal role we play in their ongoing digital transformation journeys."

The TCS ECP is a dynamic solution stack that provides multiple, flexible cloud infrastructure options including IaaS, PaaS, and hybrid cloud capabilities, which enable highly secure orchestrations between on premise, private and public cloud environments.

It provides a software defined approach to solve customer challenges and offers tight control over both physical and virtual environments. With enhanced security based on open standards and policy-based automation, the solution provides greater network fabric visibility, assurance that customer data remains in Australia, and enables enterprises operating in any environment to leverage the cloud through easy transformations.

About Equinix Inc

Equinix Inc (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the most-interconnected data centres. On this global platform for digital business, companies come together across more than 50 markets on five continents to reach everywhere, interconnect everyone and integrate everything they need to create their digital futures.

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for the last fifty years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 436,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $20.9 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019 and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

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