The Indian Institute of Management Indore has truly world class, campus wide state-of-the-art information technology tools that are designed to meet the computing and communication needs of the Institute. IIM Indore has a fast, reliable and rugged computer network of more than 1300 Nodes. This network has a Gigabit fiber backbone connectivity to all the blocks and departments. The network has a redundant design which includes two no. of core switches to cater to network connectivity for the entire campus. All the hostels, faculty blocks, the admin block, classroom blocks, the MDP block, the library & the seminar block are connected through redundant gigabit fiber backbone and apart from the above, all the blocks are connected through layer 2 & 3 switches to provide 100 mbps connectivity at the user end. Every hostel room has a dedicated LAN connection on the institute's network to provide round the clock access to resources on the net. Wireless network is also enabled in the faculty block, Library, class rooms, MDC & hostel blocks.

Computer and Communication Facilities: Faculty, participants, administration, and the library servers run on Windows Server operating system while the Mail and Web Server run on Linux. All the nodes runs on Windows 2000/XP Professional/Vista and Linux. Other application softwares include Office 97/2000, MATLAB, SPSS 15, Answer Tree, ArcView GIS 3.3, Clementine 11.1, Polyanalyst 4.5, Coldfusion 4.5, Rational Suite Enterprise 1.5 , Oracle, Visual Studio, IBM DB2 ,MS-SQL Server, Shazam, AutoCad 2000i, Primavera, Architect Bundle, Flash, Tally , Arena, Eviews, Microfit, AMOS, ILog-Cplex, Libsys, Cisco Works 2.2, Microsoft Project 2000, Redhat Enterprise Solutions 4.0, Microsoft Exchange Server etc.

 
The details of the available facilities are as follows:

Network Servers: 12 numbers of Intel Xeon Dual Processor / P-III, 2.0 Ghz / 1.0 GZ, 2 GB / 1 GB RAM, 8GB / 20 GB HDD and CD/DVD -Drive for faculty, participants, and web/email servers. Three Intel Xeon , 2.7 GHz, 2048 MB RAM, 36 x 2 GB HDD and CD-Drive for Library Server. One NAS with 1000 GB ( 1 TB) Storage Capacity, One CD-Net Server with 28 CD drives with expansion chassis for another 28 CD/DVD drives, CD Mirror Server with 1 TB storage capacity and thirty two lines RAS Server.

Desktop PCs: 285

Notebooks: 51 nos.

Printers: 8 No. of HP Network Laserjet 4350/4300 Heavy duty printers, 2 no. of HP 8150 network laserjet printers, 1 no. of HP Colorlaserjet 5550N, 5 no. of HP 1320 laserjet printers, 2 No. of Xerox N2025 network laserjet printers, 2 nos. of HP LaserJet 6MP, 36 nos. of HP DeskJet 670C, 610 and 640 C, 1 HP Colour Laserjet Printer and 2 No. of HP 3380 Laserjet 4-in-1 Printer.

Internet Access: 34 Mbps (1:1) leased line connection from BSNL.

Video Conferencing : VC System available with 4 ISDN line & also connected with Internet.