Tuesday, 24 June 2008

India Data Center Market to Hit USD 1.5 Bill by 2010, Power Challenges Remain Critical

The Indian data center market, fuelled by offshoring, global multi-national companies ( MNCs) and domestic demand, is experiencing substantial growth and is set to be valued at more than USD 1.5 billion by 2010 says data center market specialist BraodGroup.

However, power supply will remain a critical challenge for the country.

Based on a study detailing the profiles of 34 players in India, both overseas and domestic, the study reveals that while growth is occurring at unprecedented levels, challenges remain particularly those relating to infrastructure, power – and the quality of power –and land availability.

“India has the opportunity to become a global hub,” said Frank Booty, editor of Data Centre News.

“India’s language capabilities, skill levels, culture and governance are suited to the country becoming a global hub. It also has a resilient economy driving domestic demand for services. Until now much of the data coming out of India has been stored on servers in the US.”

According to BraodGroup, data Centre build over the coming years will need to reflect the Green standards increasingly included in corporate RFPs, and there is an urgent need to address how the infrastructure will cope with the levels of power demanded by these plans.

Corporates will also need reassurance about data loss and disaster situations.

In common with data centres globally, India data centres confront the challenge of cooling. Growing alarm expressed by interviewees for the report focused on the dollar/rupee spending on blade servers today, which embeds two to four times more power consumption in the same or less space, than was required by the equipment being replaced.