Global data center storage and colocation company Iron Mountain will form a data center joint venture with Web Werks, one of India’s leading colocation data center providers.Iron Mountain expects to invest $ 150 million over the next two years. It expects to be the largest investor in the venture after the investment period.

Iron Mountain’s aggregate business unit Iron Mountain Data Centers is making this investment to help its existing hyperscale, network, content and enterprise customers expand and scale in the fast-growing Pan-India region.

WebWorks operates three Tier 3, Carrier-Neutral Collocation data centers in Mumbai, Pune and Delhi NCR. This investment enables WebWorks to immediately expand its operations to its three existing markets and later to Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.

With a combined footprint of 225,000 square feet, WebWorks maintains 6 worldwide data center points-of-presence (POPS), powers 4MW, supports 6,000+ servers, and supports 850+ clients. WebWorks provides access to its neutral interconnected ecosystem of carrier, content and cloud providers, including more than 160 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and 6 Internet Exchanges (IXs).