Microland Limited, India’s leading provider of IT Infrastructure Management Services announced today the appointment of Mr Jawahar Bekay as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the company.

Mr Jawahar Bekay, a co-founding member of Microland returns to the company after seven years. Prior to Microland, Bekay was with Collabera Inc a $300 million US IT Services firm as their Chief Strategy Officer and CEO of their Indian entity.

Speaking on his appointment, Microland Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Pradeep Kar said, “I am delighted to have Jawahar Bekay back in Microland. Bekay has exceptional insight into global markets having been a CEO of an IT Services company, and I believe he is a tremendous addition to the leadership team of Microland. I am delighted to work with Bekay again in taking Microland to the next level of growth.”

Bekay has been associated with the company right since its inception and was instrumental in building Microland across its various phases of evolution. Between 2002 and 2005, Bekay was the CEO of Planetasia, Asia's pioneering e-business software services company and a subsidiary of Microland. With over 25 years of experience, his expertise spans building and managing businesses in the outsourcing space.

Speaking on his appointment as Executive Director and COO, Bekay said, "I believe that remote infrastructure management is a strongly emerging IT services category that will accelerate as companies recognize the tremendous benefits and ROI that is attainable. The global RIMS opportunity is predicted to be $26 to 28 billion by 2013 and India’s share could be in the region of $ 14 to 15 billion. Microland is well positioned in that market. I look forward to the opportunity to accelerate Microland’s growth in these exciting times.”

Microland currently has a client base of over seventy global customers ranging from a Media Company, Global Services Company, Banking & Financial Services Institutions, multiple High Tech IT companies, major Software Corporation to a diversified Business Conglomerate. With an expanded workforce of 2300+ professionals, encompassing services that relate to monitoring, managing and enhancing the performance of a client’s IT Infrastructure and being ISO 20000-1 & 27001 and BS15000 & BS 7799 Certified, Microland is poised to lead growth in the Infrastructure Management Services space

About Microland

Microland (www.microland.com) is a pure play provider of IT Infrastructure Management Services and its Infrastructure Management Services encompass all the Services that relate to Monitoring, Managing and enhancing the performance of a client’s IT Infrastructure. These include Server Management, Messaging (e-Mail) Management, Data Center Management, Network Management, IT Security Services, Device Management, Application Management and Process and Technology Consulting. Microland’s Operation Management Centers are ISO 20000-1 & 27001 certified.

Amongst the recent awards won by Microland are the Top 10 Best Performing Infrastructure Providers by Global Services Media in 2009 for the 3rd consecutive year. The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) in 2009 has recognized Microland as one of the top 100 Outsourcing service providers globally, Best Infrastructure Services Partner (India) for the fourth time in a row by Microsoft since 2005 and the Black Book of Outsourcing ranked Microland 8 among The Top 20 Remote Infrastructure Management vendors and Number 2 for its data centre management capabilities.

Microland is headquartered in Bangalore, with 2300+ professionals working across the globe. Microland provides a proven and reliable alternative to global customers in managing their enterprise IT infrastructure. For more information on Microland Limited, please visit www.microland.com