Telangana News

As both Karnataka and Tamilnadu were in Cauvery water dispute, Bengaluru IT companies are facing the brunt of the recent unrest. 

To offer them support from Hyderabad's IT sector, techies are working between 12 to 36 hours at a stretch to keep critical services and servers over there running.

Dual states' water sharing issue has severely hit at least 75 to 85% of IT companies in Bengaluru. This made their counter parts in Hyderabad sleep in office on Monday and Tuesday to keep up the business continuity plan (BCP). 

Speaking about the situation, Rajendar C, secretary, Kannada Rashtra Telangana Association, said, "At least 25,000 or more techies from Hyderabad have currently stepped in for their Bengaluru counterparts. Going by the situation here in Bengaluru, they might have to continue to do so for a couple of days." 

More than any other centers like Pune, Delhi  NCR and Chennai, it is only Hyderabad that took maximum load, as the city is identified to be India’s strongest 'anti-disaster' centre with a majority of IT giants hosting their secondary servers here to handle such emergency situations. Adding to it, after Bengaluru and Chennai, Hyderabad is even the 3rd largest IT hub.

Not just now, even during Chennai floods, it is only Hyderabad that took the extra burden to continue IT services for a number of hours. 

Speaking about this, Telangana IT association founder, Sundeep Kumar Makthala said, “The reason why most of the work is off-loaded to Hyderabad during such times of crisis is that at least 70 per cent of IT companies host their secondary disaster recovery centres and servers in Hyderabad. Apart from seismological reports, climatic conditions, connectivity parameters and availability of man-power are key considerations for selecting Hyderabad as a DR centre.”