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Issue 14, February/March


INDIA’S STRUGGLE FOR POWER


India is growing but power problems can still be a major issue for new projects, as Nivedita Mohanty and Penny Jones find out in the lead up to DatacenterDynamic’s first event in India


D


ata center demand is growing in


India. Despite


struggles


with power provision, latency bottlenecks and site


selection,


the figures show India is seeking more data centers than ever before. India’s rise ties in with a larger story covering the whole of the Asia Pacific.


DatacenterDynamics is running it first event in India on February 15. Leading data center companies and end users will join at the ITC Maratha to hear about how India’s data centers can help prepare the country to become the outsourcing hub of the world, and overcome IT infrastructure reliability challenges.


The event is likely to attract more than just attention from Indian data center players. According


to Digital Realty Trust (DRT)


Regional Head Asia Pacific Kris Kumar, companies around the world should be considering Asian locations such as India for data center investment “because that’s where the money is”. (A quote originally made by famed bank robber Willie Sutton.).


“As a result of the globalization of the economic


marketplace, economic


of countries such as China and India as major


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within the region to build state-of-the-art telecommunications infrastructures,


Pacific is not only a region that will benefit from the organic data center requirements of its local business base but from the need for multi-national firms to establish their own computing presences within the region,” Kumar says.


“Since 2006 capacity within the region’s data centers has risen by an estimated 45%. In a report released in March of 2010, the Asia Data Center Alliance reported strong growth in both 2009 and for 2010/2011 and stated that member companies had expected to see an average business growth of 18 to 30% for the period.”


Ninety percent of sector growth is expected to be in the data center and server room space and DRT estimates show that 80% of enterprises in the region with revenues of more than US$500m are looking to expand data center facilities in the 12 to 24 months.


Analyst firm Springboard Research says it expects India’s third-party data center services market to reach US$1.1bn by 2015. The market overall was estimated to be worth US$244m in 2009. It also says third-party data center services are expected to increase


Asia


from 24.2 to 29.8% in terms of how much IT budget is commited by India’s companies.


“As the industry matures, we will see a definite shift from colocation services, which currently contribute more than 55% to third-party services revenue, managed services and cloud-based services,” Springboard Research VP for IT Services Frederic Giron says. This is all good news, but it still does not mean India is without its challenges.


CHANGING THE FACE OF THE INDUSTRY


P Sridhar Reddy knows all too well the challenges of operating a data center in the Indian market. Demand may be strong but to meet it and maintain high service quality data center knowledge must be second to none.


Reddy is the founder, chairman and managing director of Pioneer Group, which controls India’s first Tier 4 colocation and managed service provider CtrlS Datacenters. Regarded as thought leader in the data center space, Reddy has been attributed with changing the industry in the country, especially when it comes to attitudes of energy consumption and high availability. (CtrlS will be present at DatacenterDynamics Mumbai where Reddy will be talking about data center models and their suitability to different market needs).


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