Wipro, India's third largest IT services firm, has signed a definitive agreement to divest its hosted data centre business to Illinois-based hybrid IT services provider Ensono for $405 million (Rs 26.26 bn). The data centre business of the company consists of Wipro Data Centre and Cloud Services, Inc in the US and a portion of datacenter business in Germany and the UK.
As a part of this deal, the Bengaluru-headquartered company will transfer eight data centres and 900 employees including those who support the operations out of India, to Ensono.
The two firms have also signed an agreement to jointly