Microland

Microland was started in Bangalore, India in August 1989 with a key focus on Hardware and Networking.[5][6] It was founded by Pradeep Kar as a Network Integration Company with an initial funding from SBI Capital Markets Limited. Microland signed an agreement with Novell to become one of the first few companies to bring Network education to India.[7] In the years between 1993 and 1997, Microland assisted in the introduction of new technologies to the Indian market, namely, Compaq, Cisco, SynOptics, and Netscape.[8] In addition to Compaq, Computerland, Hewlett-Packard and Novell, Microland entered into strategic alliances with, Cisco, Lotus, Micom, Microsoft, SynOptics and Xircom.[9] In 1997, Microland hosted Bill Gates, Chairman & CEO, Microsoft at ‘Enterprise Tomorrow. Today’.[10]

After the advent of the internet economy in 1998, Microland built several companies such as Planetasia.com, indya.com (which he sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation),[11][12] ITspace.com, media2india.net and Net Brahma Technologies.[5][8][13]

In 2005 the firm signed a strategic alliance with Serco Solutions, UK, for providing remote IT infrastructure management services (IMS) in a dedicated operations center serving remote locations. On 14 January 2005, the firm raised $7.3 million in funding;[14] In August 2006, it received $11 million in the second round of funding.[15] In early 2007 Microland inaugurated its first multi-network operations center facility housing six network operations center, six tech labs, four data centers and one penetration testing lab. In December 2007, it opening a global technology support center in Bangalore.[16] In April 2007, it partnered with Microsoft to provide cloud solutions to large enterprises in India.[17] In 2008, it added managed security assessment and ITSM consulting to its services.[18] In 2011, the firm signed a $55 million multi-year contract with Serco Limited, UK[19][20] to provide specialist support through an expanded team located in Birmingham, UK, and Bangalore, India.[21] In 2012, the firm added virtualization & cloud infrastructure life cycle services (design, deploy & management of public, private & hybrid clouds including cloud integration & automation) to its portfolio and as part of this built partnerships with leading cloud technology providers.[22]

On 26 August 2014, Microland completed 25 years of operation and was recognized as the first Hybrid IT Infrastructure provider in India.[23] On 2 December 2014, the firm partnered with Computacenter in opening the Global Network Operations Centre (GNOC) at Bagmane Tech Park, Bangalore.[24] In 2015, Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank (NCB) selected Microland as its IT infrastructure services partner to manage its branch technology services across the kingdom.[25] In 2016, it set up its first offshore delivery center for ASG group, Australia in Bagmane Tech Park, Bangalore.[26] In 2017, Microland reinforced its digital focus with MicrolandOne, a digital app for its workforce.[27] In line with its digital initiatives, it launched Digital hubs in Birmingham, UK and Pune, India.[28][29]

In January 2019, the company announced the appointment of Mahesh Nagaraj as Chief Strategy Officer and Srikara CR as Senior Vice President of Global Professional Services and Presales.[30] In August 2019 they hired Ashish Mahadwar as President. He is based in San Francisco Bay Area (California) [31][32] In October 2019, the company announced the appointment of Anupam Pandey as Chief Information Officer.[33][34]