Posts Tagged ‘Data center’
- In a bid to strengthen its presence in the European market, India’s third-largest information technology services company Wipro Technologies opened a data centre in Meerbusch, Germany, with an investment of euro15 million (Rs 100 crore). The opening of the centre fits into the company’s strategy of going local in European market.
- Meerbusch data center enables us to be closer to our European customers. This would help us in providing managed services and cloud offerings to our European customers who want our local presence there,” T K Kurien, CEO of IT business said.
- As a part of the company’s restructuring in January, Kurien had also charted out a programme for the company called going local and be close to the customers. As per the strategy, the company has even appointed separate business heads for countries like Germany and France.
- Europe is the second-fastest growing geography for the company after the APAC region.
- According to a recent study by the Deutsche Bank and Value Leadership Group, the slowdown in economic activity in Europe, could spur the large European banks to increase their business activity with Indian IT services companies more than the global companies.
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- One of the biggest costs in a data centre is power cost. Power is needed to fire the servers and storage systems. And since these systems heat up, power is again required to cool the systems with air-conditioning.
- In the dot-com era, data centres consumed 1 or 2 MW. Now it’s common to find facilities that require 20 MW, and already some of them expect to use ten times as much in the years to come. For countries, data centre power consumption is expected to put an enormous burden on their power grids.
- Not surprisingly, an enormous amount of innovation, right from the semiconductor level, is today going into finding solutions to reduce power consumption in computing systems. IBM’s India Software Lab in Bangalore has just contributed towards that. It has developed a system to run data centres on solar power, and is making it commercially available, perhaps the first such commercial offering in the world.
- Until now, no one has engineered solar power for efficient use in IT,” said Rod Adkins, senior VP of IBM’s systems and technology group, who was in Bangalore last week. “We’ve designed a solar solution to bring a new source of clean, reliable and efficient power to energy-intensive, industrial-scale electronics.
- The first implementation is being done at the Bangalore lab itself. A solar power array has been installed, spread over more than 6,000 sft of the lab’s rooftop. Kota Murali, chief scientist at IBM India, says the installation is capable of providing a 50-kilowatt of electricity for up to 330 days a year, for an average of five hours a day. The advantage of solar power is that it is DC (direct current), unlike grid power that is AC (alternating current).
- Processors run on DC, so when you use grid power, you need to convert AC to DC. In the process of that conversion, you lose about 13% of power. On the other hand, when you do a DC to DC conversion, the loss is only 4%. So you have a saving of close to 10%.
- Companies can save millions of dollars spent on cooling data centres if they adopt newer technologies that increase efficiency, according to global chip maker Intel.
- At present, data centre environment has temperatures between 18 and 21 degree Celcius.
- However, many data centres run at 27 degree Celcius or even warmer without any significant impact,” Intel APAC and PRC marketing Manager Data Centre and Connected Systems Product Group Nick Knupffer told reporters here.
- This can lead to a lot of savings for companies as they will not only save on electricity costs, but will also have lesser greenhouse gases and water wastage, he added.
- According to estimates, data centres today consume 1.5 per cent of the world”s energy power, which generates an annual cost of USD 26 billion.
- A data centre is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
- Malaysian web hosting provider Teliti International announced on Thursday it has partnered with a group of technologies and solutions providers including Emerson Network Power to build a green data center.
- The data center will have an ultimate capacity of 120,000 square feet and be considered Asia’s largest green data center. Located in the Bandar Enstek technology park, the data center is just 10 minutes away from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
- Set to open with an initial 45,000 square feet in the first half of 2012, the data center will offer customers a range of services, including web hosting, flexible colocation, cloud computing, and fully managed information technology services such as managed storage and processing on demand.
- The world-class technologies from Emerson Network Power and our other partners provide us with the unique ability to monitor and control every aspect of our data center infrastructure, including power, cooling, and space utilization,” said Musa Mohd Lazim, CEO of Teliti Datacentres. “This allows us to fine-tune data center operations and to observe trends in capacity utilization to ensure optimal management. In bringing together a consortium of companies with industry-leading expertise in their respective fields, we have found a winning formula for a sustainable, cutting-edge green data center.
- Teliti will deploy a range of Emerson Network Power technologies, including UPS systems, surge protection, battery monitoring, and power transfer switches, precision cooling and cold aisle containment, power distribution units and enclosures, and access, control, and monitoring software and hardware.
- AOL has been operating a trial datacenter that runs without any on-site staff since the start of the month, and reports that the system is resilient and cuts costs.
- Dubbed ATC, the datacenter uses off-the-shelf, pre-racked/vendor integrated gear with open source code, is run as a 100 per cent lights out facility (no BOFH patrolling the racks), and was put together in 90 days from the first proposal. AOL’s special sauce is its configuration management system, which the company says can set up and start a virtual machine in eight seconds and set up global server systems in minutes.
- The provisioning systems were built to be universal so that if required we can do the same thing with stand-alone physical boxes or virtual machines. No difference. Same system.” Said Mike Manos, AOL’s vice president of technology operations in a blog post.
- This system was put to the test during this summer’s East Coast earthquake, a 5.8 magnitude shock in Virginia. “The flood of inquirers to AOL’s servers in the aftermath was handled using the system, adding new virtual machines to handle the steep surge in demand,” he wrote.
- The timing of the announcement is fortuitous, considering AOL is trying to sell itself and touting its datacenter management as one of the assets it brings to any deal. Reuters reports that COE Tim Armstrong told a meeting of top shareholders that the company could be a good buy for Yahoo! He estimated that the two companies, with a combined audience, elimination of overlaps and AOL’s datacenter prowess, could save $1.5bn.
- Nearly half of data centers are using economizers to provide natural cooling, and they are saving an average of 20 percent off their energy costs, according to a survey by the Green Grid.
- The survey of 115 people working on data centers of 2,500 square feet or larger found 49 percent using economizers, a type of cooling that takes advantage of favorable weather conditions to cut down on energy use, and 24 percent are considering implementation. Those using economizers found an average of seven percent savings on maintenance costs.
- The survey participants included facilities managers, engineers, IT professionals, executives and project managers.
- There are two basic kinds of economizers. Air-side systems blow fresh air into the data center and discharge hot air back out, or use air-to-air heat exchangers. Water-side systems remove heat from chilled water loops using a heat exchange with outside air. In the survey, the most popular types of systems were direct outside air (39%) and chilled water with a water-cooled chiller (27%).
- Those who had considered but not installed economizers cited the difficulty of retrofitting an existing facility as the biggest factor in their decision. Almost three-quarters of economizers are installed during new construction as opposed to retrofitting. Reliability was another big concern for those deciding against economizers.
Dublin, Ireland: An energy-efficient, cloud computing data center on 11 acres of land with a $101 million investment. The natural cooling from Dublin’s climate saves energy by eliminating the need for chillers.
Asia – Singapore, Hong Kong &Taiwan: A $200 million investment in three data centers to support increased demand of services via smartphones and tablet computers, and expectations to be operational in 1 to 2 years.
Pryor, Oklahoma – Just opened a new $600 million, 130,000 square feet data center, and plans to open a second building for office space. Another energy-efficient project, the data center will be powered from a wind farm which will feed into the electrical transmission grid.
Microsoft
Dublin, Ireland: Microsoft expects to expand its 19-acre, $500 million data center in Dublin by more than a third – similar to Google, the data center uses natural cooling without any chillers.
West Des Moines, Iowa: $200 million facility originally started in 2008 but put on hold after the recession. The data center project started up again in 2010, and appears to be nearing completion.
Boydton , Virginia: An expansion investment of $150 million and a planned second data center facility. With the first phase of its project requiring $499 million, Microsoft is trying to stay competitive in the cloud computing market.
- North Carolina: Scheduled for completion by September 2013, the second data center for this social network giant will measure 300,000 square feet, same as its first data center that hasn’t even opened yet. Facebook purchased 150 acres of land and invested $450 million in their first data center. The data center will be energy-efficient and deploy evaporative cooling instead of a chiller system.
IBM
- Langfang, China: A cloud computing data center for Range Technology Development Co. Ltd. measured at 620,000 square meters and intended to serve business growth industries such as transportation, telecommunications, e-government and healthcare. IBM’s data center business in China has reportedly tripled in the last four years.
- Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry devices, on Thursday said that it was open to look at the possibility of setting up regional data centres to avoid a repeat of the outage that affected more than 70 million subscribers across the world.
- Speaking to Indian media via tele-conference, Mr Patrick Spence, Senior Vice-President and Managing Director, Global Sales & Regional Marketing, RIM, said, “Our immediate focus is on getting back the services to where we would like it to be. We will leave no stone unturned to make sure that this does not repeat. All options, including setting up network architecture with regional hubs, are on the table. If that makes sense, we will do it.” Indian authorities have been asking RIM to set up local servers for security monitoring purpose but so far the company has been unwilling to do so.
- Globally, RIM has come under sever criticism for having a centralised architecture because of which a snag at its UK centre disrupted services across the world.
- Although the RIM executive did not give any specific measures that the company will take to pacify angry customers, Mr Spence said that RIM will look at a number of issues including communications with customers, demands for compensation from operators and its architecture, once the services are fully back to normal. He said that although data were flowing normally, the company was monitoring the situation for one more day to make sure that the system was fully back on track.
- SoftLayer Technologies has opened a new data center in Singapore, deploying its new space quickly after leasing 48,000 square feet of turn-key space from Digital Realty Trust. SoftLayer will use the facility to boost its capabilities for delivering hosting and cloud services throughout the Asia Pacific region.
- Proximity to our customers is crucial to driving innovation and improving a better end-user experience,” said George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer for SoftLayer. “We turned to Digital Realty to assist us in our international expansion efforts because their facilities gave us a way to rapidly deploy and get our data center operations live quickly. They also understood the importance of having this data center operate to the highest standards, ensuring our customers get the same experience from every SoftLayer data center globally.
- SoftLayer provided a look inside the new facility in a recent blog post. The Singapore data center has its own floor within Digital Realty’s 29A International Business Park property, a 370,500 square foot (34,421 square meter) data center facility located in Singapore’s Jurong East area. The seven-story data centre development project delivers up to 30 megawatts of 2N UPS capacity and a design that enables it to support both dedicated and shared customer environments.
- NEC India Pvt Ltd announced an alliance with Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services Limited (Trimax), an IT services and solutions provider, to explore opportunities in delivering “SaaS” services using an integrated application aggregation platform.
- As a part of this association, NEC will be leveraging Trimax’s data center capabilities to provide business applications such as CRM, ERP, Human Resource Management, Inventory, Security etc to the enterprise customers.
- This partnership will leverage NEC’s technological expertise and Trimax’s local market reach to offer SaaS applications to SMBs in India via an opex model, thus reducing their IT expenditure and total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Mr. Ken Sugata, General Manager at Global Carrier Cloud division, NEC Corporation commented, “Cloud computing has pavedan innovative way for enterprises to meet the ever changing business needs to deal with complex business environments.
- Google has acquired land in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore to build data centers in these three locations, it said Wednesday.
- The data centers will be the “first Google proprietary data centers in Asia,” and will be fully owned and operated by the company, said Taj Meadows, the company’s policy communications manager for Asia Pacific.
- More people are coming online every day in Asia than in any other part of the world, so locating data centers there is an important next stage of Google’s investment in the region, the company said Local data centers will help the company provide faster and more reliable access to Google’s services, it added.
- here is a large surge in Internet use in Asia, particularly for consumer applications, said Jun Fwu Chin, research manager for virtualization and data center at IDC Malaysia.
- A number of new data centers are coming up in the region as multinational Internet and hosting companies set up data centers to serve local customers, and also to meet governments regulations in some countries that require data to be handled locally, Chin said.
- The company has acquired 2.45 hectares of land in Jurong West, Singapore, and another 15 hectares of land in Changhua County, Taiwan, to build the data centers. It has also acquired 2.7 hectares of land in Kowloon, Hong Kong, for a data center there.
- Google expects to invest over US$100 million in each of the facilities in Taiwan and Hong Kong, including the cost of land, construction and technical equipment. It did not specify the size of the investment in Singapore.
Tags: APAC, Data center, Google, google service, hong kong, malaysia, news, singapore, taiwan, technology
- Energy management company Schneider Electric introduced StruxureWare Operations 7.0, an enterprise data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) software platform.
- StruxureWare Operations 7.0, an integral part of Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare for Data Centers Suite, replaces Schneider Electric’s InfraStruxureTM Operations version 6.2.
- The StruxureWare for Data Centers Suite is a combination of Schneider Electric’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Data Center Facility Management (DCFM) software tools.
- The complete suite provides data gathering, monitoring, automation, and planning and implementation functionalities to enable an integrated and multifaceted view of all the mission critical physical systems of the data centre, says the company in a release.
- The StruxureWare Operations 7.0 platform allows c-level executives, data centre managers and facility managers to have complete visibility and control over data center operations, adds the release.
- This enterprise software can be deployed on both physical and virtual servers, can ‘drill down’ into any data centre location globally, comes with a 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) airflow view functionality, and smart phone support, as well.
Data Center Design Remains a Key Area of Interest – DataCenterKnowledge
Posted on: November 11, 2011
Data Center Knowledge recently conducted its 2011 survey of enterprise class data center operators and found that data center design is still the top area of interest. The survey has be conducted in each of the last four years, and in 2010 data center design moved to the top of the list and remains a key topic of interest for 2011.
Having the proper design infrastructure eases the challenges associated with operations and scalability. Data center operators are charged with simultaneously saving money and making their facilities more sustainable to comply with corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies. Design is the key tool that can incorporate both objectives and deliver results.
Power and cooling has moved up the list from number three to the second position on the list. Power is often the number one cost to operate the data center so it’s no surprise this is an area of strong interest. Cooling projects are often the easiest way for data center operators to realize short-term savings in optimizing their data centers, so decision makers are keenly focused on identifying the best cooling solutions.
Likewise, Green IT (74%) ties in with power and cooling as part of the larger focus on energy efficiency as a cost management strategy. Strategies such as cold aisle containment, and free cooling (economization) are all part of a holistic infrastructure approach to optimize data center performance and operational cost.
The newest and fastest rising area of interest at 70% is Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM). This technology helps integrate the management of facilities and IT ensuring the optimal use of the overall facility. DCIM plays an even more strategic role for operators with multiple data centers that leverage cloud technologies and real time energy pricing.
- Facebook announced on Monday it has begun building a second massive data center in Forest City, North Carolina, even before the social networking site’s first data center has opened, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.
- Facebook data center manager George Henry said the second data center will mirror the 300,000 square foot Building 1, which it recently completed and is now being equipped with its first batch of servers.
- This latest expansion only signals how rapidly the website is growing. Since Facebook began construction on its first Rutherford County data center last November, its membership has grown from 500 million users to more than 800 million users. The company has also started building its second facility at its data center campus in Prineville, Oregon.
- Facebook purchased 150 acres of land from Rutherford County for the $450 million project, in which the company build its first data center on vacant land, as well as demolished a former Mako Marine factory on the site to make way for a second data center. Facebook’s construction team, comprised of DPR Construction and Fortis Construction, employs about 500 people per day at the site. News of the second phase promises similar activity for at least another year.
- Savvis has teamed up with Virgin Media Business to offer a pay-as-you-go cloud computing services for small and medium-sized enterprise customers in the UK.
- The service will be carrier neutral, but premium service can be delivered using Virgin’s fiber-optic network which covers much of the country out of Savvis local data center operations.
- Built on Savvis’s own cloud computing platform – Symphony VPDC (virtual private data center) – the Virtual Private Data Centre offering can allow companies to create their own virtual data center in a matter of hours with the same multi-tiered security and quality of service levels offered to Savvis cloud service customers.
- Virgin said the new partnership will allow it to maximize use of its fiber-optic network during peak business hours. Its network, which Virgin said passes within 50 yards of 85% of UK businesses, has until now largely been used for consumer customers with peak hours of 6pm to 10pm.
- Savvis, on the other hand, has largely catered to UK government and large business clients and already offers cloud computing as one of its hosted services.
read more at data center dynamics
Deployment of the world’s largest commercial High Performance Computing data center
Posted on: November 11, 2011
- HP announced this week what it said was deployment of the world’s largest commercial High Performance Computing data center. European aircraft manufacturer Airbus deployed two of the vendor’s 40ft data center containers stuffed with HP-made HPC gear at its sites in Toulouse, France, and Hamburg, Germany.
- Ed Turkel, business development manager for service providers and HPC at HP, said Airbus deployed the product as a general computing resource for a variety of research and engineering applications. The system ranked 29th on the most recent Top500 Supercomputer Sites list, which came out in June.
- HPC has not been the most popular use for the HP Pod. So far, the vertical that’s consumed most HP containers has been the service-provider industry. “That’s the place where probably the biggest roll-out [of HP Pods] has been,” Turkel said about the service-provider space.The key reason both HPC customers and service providers have been buying the solution has been the same: speed of deployment. “It becomes a way of building out data center capacity in smaller modular chunks and refreshing those modular chunks as technology changes,” Turkel said.
- By deploying the two Pods, Airbus doubled its supercomputing power. According to Turkel, it took HP about four months to deliver the solution and connect it to power, water and network from the moment Airbus signed the contract. HP manufactured the aircraft maker’s Pods at a plant in Scotland.HP has both 40ft and 20ft containers. Since the company launched the 20ft solution in February 2010, however, it has not sold as well as the 40ft version has, according to Turkel. HP continues to be tight-lipped about total sales numbers for the product, as do other container vendors.
- If everything goes well, Manesar in Haryana would be the data centre for Union government’s ambitious project — Aadhaar card or UID card.
- Already, Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation has allotted five acres of land for the project. Very soon the foundation stone would be laid for the data centre, said Keshni Anand Arora, deputy director general, regional office, Chandigarh.
- Currently, Aadhaar has its data centre in Bangalore. A total of 38,400,000 of Aadhaar numbers have been generated in the country and 100 million enrolments have been made.
- Aadhaar is a 12-digit individual identification number that will serve as a proof of identity and address anywhere in India. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was been created, with the mandate of providing a unique identity a year ago to all residents of tghe country.
- The UIDAI’s mandate is to issue every resident a unique identification number linked to the resident’s demographic and biometric information, which they can use to identify themselves anywhere in India, and to access a host of benefits and services.
- In a confirmation of Taiwan’s investment climate and the strength of its information/communications technology industry, Google, the world’s largest search engine, will invest over US$100 million to set up a data center spanning 15 hectares in space in Hsienhsi Township of Changhua County, announced the company yesterday (sep 28)
- Google also announced decision to set up data centers in Singapore and Hong Kong, with the investment scale in Hong Kong also reaching US$100 million. It, however, didn’t publicize investment scale in Singapore.
- This is the first time for Google to set up data centers in Asia. Presently, it has eight data centers in Europe and the U.S. and 15 offices in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Google now has a branch company in Taiwan, with a paid-in capital of NT$2.1 billion. The company pointed out that the data center will be completed in one to two years, adding that the projected investment of US$100 million will be used in land purchase, construction, and procurement of technology and equipment.
- Google noted that the decision to set up Asian data centers is for the purpose of deep-cultivating the Asian market, following surge in the Internet population in the Asia-Pacific market. Taiwan is selected as a site for Asian data centers, due to its market proximity, complete infrastructure, top-notch technological talents, and reasonable business regulations.
- Search engine company to spend over $200m building facilities in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Google will invest over $200m to build data centres in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, the Search engine company’s first data centres in Asia.
- According to Bloomberg, Google has already acquired land in the three South-east Asia countries. The company told Blomberg that the data centres in Hong Kong and Taiwan are expected to cost over $100m each. The move is a part of Google’s wider strategy to expand its presence in Asia. At present, Google leases data centres in Asia to offer services in the region.
- The search engine company has a growing user base in several Asian countries including China and India, where the company’s services such as search, e-mail and online maps are popular. Google’s Android is also widely used in Asia, with most Asian smartphone makers using the mobile-phone operating system.
- The operation of the Asian facilities are expected to begin one to two years after construction begins, said the company.
- Meanwhile, The New York Times has reported that the next great expansion of the world’s digital infrastructure is under way in developing markets such as China, Brazil and Argentina.
Tags: asia, building facilities, Data center, Google, hong kong, news, singapore, taiwan, technology
- Data centre services provider Netmagic plans to add two more data centres to its operations. The company that has seven centres now will add resources to cater to the booming Indian market, senior company official said.
- Jayabalan Subramanian, chief technology officer of Netmagic said, “We have data centres in Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and Noida. By January, we plan to add one more centre in Mumbai and by late 2012, we would want to have another in Bengaluru. At present, we have the capacity to fund all our expansions through internal accruals.”
- Netmagic provides services including managed IT, hosting, infrastructure management, managed security and cloud computing. The company also has a virtual data centre in USA with over two-lakh sq ft floor space. It has over 1,000 customers across verticals including banking and financial services, logistics, education, media, IT and ITeS.
- The company raised $4 million in the first round of funding in 2000 and $20 million in the second round in 2008. The second investment was in two tranches of $15 million and $5 million. Fidelity International and Nexus India Capital are Netmagic’s investors.
Tags: banking and financial, Data center, education, ITes, logistics, media, Netmagic, news, technology
The challenges that surround asset management in the corporate data center environment are significant. SOX regulations
require that a corporation be able to actively identify and locate high‐value assets and assets that contain information such as
customer data, human resource data, and financial transactions. Leveraging RFID technology to automate common business
processes relating to critical assets and media in data centers has many benefits. Improving visibility and tightening security
can be achieved by automating three key functions.
1. Inventory Audit
Management is required to maintain a complete accounting of all equipment. Inventory audits are done at least annually and
at great cost and effort. RFID has delivered significant benefits that include:
- Conducting Inventory audits across multiple facilities with little or no infrastructure investment
- Accurately cycle count inventory in days, not weeks or months
- Instantly retrieving automated reports for management and compliance
With RFID tagged assets, customers are achieving 100% accuracy while eliminating 90% of audit costs, enabling instant
reconciliation and reduced asset shrinkage.
2. Asset Tracking
The ability to track each asset or media from the moment it is registered with the asset management system of the data
center is essential. Benefits include:
- Tracking assets and media in real time as they are moved in and out of a data center
- Reservation functionality to schedule specific assets for use or maintenance
- Instant alerts upon unauthorized movement of assets
Leveraging RFID technology to automate common business processes relating to critical assets and media in the data center
has come of age and is delivering results.
3. Asset Security
With the growing incidence of identity theft, companies are becoming increasingly concerned over the security of the
information that is maintained in their data centers. RFID benefits include:
- Detecting the removal of RFID tagged devices from the data‐center
- Insuring only authorized personnel have access to secure areas
- Providing alerts and alarms for any violation of security rules
Through the use of RFID, security can be greatly enhanced through the location and tracking of servers, media libraries and
personnel as well as the physical monitoring of a facility.
EMC Opens New Datacenter
Posted on: November 11, 2011
- EMC Corp. recently announced that it has opened a new datacenter in Durham, North Carolina. The 450,000 square foot Center of Excellence (COE) is EMC’s seventh datacenter and the first one in the US. The other six COE’s are located in India, China, Egypt, Israel, Ireland and Russia.
- The new COE will extend EMC’s private cloud and will support more than 50,000 users across 400 corporate offices in more than 80 countries. In addition to the data center, the COE includes 130,000 square feet of space for research and development labs. COEs perform essential services for EMC business units, including engineering and research and development, customer service, translation services, IT and technical support, and customer executive briefings.
- With the increasing spending on IT and rapid growth of virtualization and cloud computing, huge data centers have become a necessity in the global IT environment. Worldwide IT spending is expected to total $3.67 trillion in 2011, a 7.1% increase from $3.43 trillion in 2010, according to the latest outlook from Gartner. Spending on public cloud services are expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 19% for the 2010-2015 period.
- According to market research firm Infonetics, North American enterprises plan to increase their data center infrastructure spending by roughly 25% in 2011.
- We believe the increasing adoption of cloud-based technology will be a key growth driver for EMC. EMC has invested $40.0 million in the cloud infrastructure business and expects to grow from its cloud-computing initiatives. Moreover, new products and cloud-computing initiatives are expected to drive revenue growth in 2011 and beyond.
- With an aim to increase its customer base across the country, Nashik-based ESDS Software Solution Pvt Ltd- a group of web hosting companies based in UK and US, is planning to target all major cities across the country.
- As part of this, the company has just opened its offices in New Delhi and Pune. The company is also planning to set up its new offices in Mumbai, Bangalore and Indore by the end of the current FY 2011-12
- ESDS is one of the fastest growing dedicated server hosting solution providers with Data center services for most of the mission critical online businesses. The company has three data centre facilities located each in UK, US and India (Nashik), with a strong base of 33,000 customers worldwide.
- In today’s competitive world, local presence plays an important role; especially for a growing company like us. Hence, we have decided to target all major cities across the country to increase our client base. As part of this, we have just set up our offices in Pune and New Delhi. Now, we are planning to enter Mumbai, Bangalore and Indore cities by opening offices there by March 2012. The purpose behind having these centers is to provide the best services to each and every corner of the country by improving our reach,” Piyush Somani, Managing Director, ESDS Software Solution Pvt Ltd, told Business Standard.
Action items:
- Select a vendor or solution provider that has partnered this way before.
- Learn about your partners cloud strategy. Will this partner be able and willing to bring you up to speed?
- Ask about regulatory and compliance issues they have faced, and also ask whether they understand your particular environment. Get examples.
- Research your prospective partner. Do Internet searches, but be sure to call their customers. Ask for referrals. Interview the company. Determine whether it has the capability to provide secure key management even in highly complex environments. Can it integrate encryption management for cloud services (including private cloud) into the broader enterprise infrastructure?
- International Business Machines Corp., the world’s largest computer-services provider, is offering a new software product that automates marketing and speeds up sales to entice businesses to use its servers.
- If all of a company’s product and customer data is on IBM’s servers, IBM’s analytics can help it sell more efficiently to other businesses and consumers, the company said in a statement. For example, sales campaigns could be based on where products are geographically located and marketing campaigns could be automatically generated based on the tone of a customer’s Twitter post about a product.
- The new product, which is the next step in IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiative, is part of a push to make $7 billion by 2015 from cloud computing, which allows a company to store and access data from IBM’s servers, the company said. IBM, based in Armonk, New York, has made “heavy investments” in the area, including $2.5 billion in acquisitions and hundreds of millions of dollars in research, said Craig Hayman, who oversees Smarter Commerce as general manager of IBM Industry Solutions.
- Verizon Communications Inc, the second-largest U.S. phone company, expects that the total market for cloud computing services will grow to $150 billion by 2020 from about $10 billion now.
- “We think we’ll have a pretty big share of that,” Kerry Bailey, group president of Verizon unit Terremark Worldwide, said during a press meeting in Amsterdam today. “A lot of companies are moving into this space.”
- The market for cloud services will grow by $90 billion in the next four years, Bailey forecast. Verizon has spent “well over $2 billion” on cloud technology this year, after acquiring information-technology services company Terremark and CloudSwitch, a provider of software, according to Bailey.
- Verizon will open its flagship datacentre for Europe in Amsterdam tomorrow.
- Data center IT and facilities’ managers need to constantly optimize operations to ensure proper energy use. FieldView 4.0 offers these managers an advanced power measurement tool and streamlined analytical reports to improve and control data center energy usage — while validating cost savings across globally distributed environments.
- Amplified data levels demand more servers, more storage, more equipment and higher energy consumption. FieldView 4.0 offers a holistic view into the entire data center environment so IT and facilities managers can efficiently conduct operations while better managing complex metrics to validate overall data center performance,” says Fred Dirla, CEO, FieldView Solutions.
- FieldView Solutions continues to be at the leading edge of DCIM technology and used by three of the world’s largest banks and nine of the Fortune 250 enterprise organizations. Data Center professionals are invited to register for the 7×24 Exchange Delaware Valley Chapter Meeting to learn more about FieldView 4.0’s enhanced DCIM software solution
- Avnet Technology Solutions, the technology solutions distribution company and an operating group of Avnet introduced CloudReady Program, an initiative designed to prepare and enable channel partners to capitalize on emerging cloud computing growth opportunities in India.
- CloudReady covers all the three facets of cloud computing namely private, public and hybrid, and offers partners tools and resources to enter the cloud computing market quickly, implement cloud-based solutions and profitably grow their business. It is focused on training to help partners build knowledge and skills, cloud services to provide the “what to sell”, pre-sales expertise to speed selling cycles and cloud maturity model to enable consistent execution.
- Although cloud computing is still a relatively recent phenomenon in India, we wanted to build our capabilities and resources early on to serve this rapidly evolving cloud computing market. The Avnet CloudReady team will educate our channel partners on market dynamics, enhance their cloud computing capabilities and help them create strategies to capture opportunities,” said Naresh Desai, General Manager, Avnet Technology Solutions, India.
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