The Hindu Business Line : `Data centres entering consolidation phase in India'

Bangalore May 8 Consolidation and virtualisation underline the rapid growth of data centres in the country. Indian enterprises with distributed data centres have begun consolidating into one global data centre; however, the scale is not the same as their global counterparts, said Mr Parijat Chakraborty, Associate Vice-President, IDC India, speaking at the start of Cisco's three-day roadshow called `Datacenter Day' in the city on Tuesday. Beginning with servers and storage domains, they will take time to consolidate.

Application Networking

Meanwhile, consolidation of servers and storage is taking place rapidly. Resource utilisation and virtualisation beginning with storage is necessary in data centres, according to Mr Ranajoy Punja, Vice-President, Business Development, Advanced Technologies, Cisco Systems India. The company is now targeting large and mid-sized companies with a complete range of data centre needs in association with its partners.

Hosted data centres are also coming about in the country, with demand rising from mid-market segment, he said. While telecom companies outsource their data centres due to complexity and massive information that needs to be managed, smaller companies are also looking to service providers and service integrators to host their data centres so that they can retain focus on their business.

Cisco is also seeing an uptake in application networking services — or what is called WAN optimisation — by enterprises in the country. This is expected to help companies speed up application usage across a wide area network that links the data centre to branch offices.

COOLING

Power continues to be a top issue while setting up data centres that are referred to as the `power hungry' portion of the enterprise.

"With new, sleek computing devices such as blade servers making an entry, cooling needs per rack in a data centre have gone up almost ten times. The heat load per rack used to be 2-3 KW, and is now 20 KW. Extreme density computing requires cooling at the source and not uniform cooling. About 25-30 per cent of energy utilised by the data centre is on cooling," informed Mr Ankesh Kumar, Emerson Network Power India. "Power quality is low and so conditioning is gaining importance in India. Availability is also a problem. However, next generation data centres will call for lesser wastage of power," promised Mr Chakraborty.

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