Xiaomi to set up data centre in India by June.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi said it will set up a data centre in India by June in a bid to address security concerns that the company has intermittently faced in the country, as it announced plans to launch two devices — RedMi 2 and MiPad — within a fortnight.

Xiaomi, which entered India last year, has been planning to set up a local data centre that could incur significant investment, besides setting up a research and development centre and beginning manufacturing smartphones locally for a market that has become its second most important after China. However, the Apple of China has faced concerns about protection of user data, from the Indian Air Force and security solutions provider FSecure.

Xiaomi also partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to migrate data of its international customers to data centres in the US and Singapore in October last year. 'We had an infrastructure team coming in from China and they are talking to various people.

By June, we should have a data centre in place here,' Xiaomi vice-president and head of international operations Hugo Barra said at the launch event recently. Barra did not share investment details.

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