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Inspira Enterprise helps your business design next-generation, custom tailored data centres built on high performing, scalable, energy efficient & open-standard based networking and security solutions to ensure greater productivity, business continuity and lowered total cost of ownership.

Inspira offers complete Data Center solution , starting from consulting to architecting the solution. Our solutions optimize and consolidate the data center and its resources, leading to improved service levels.

Leveraging the industry’s best practices we help reduce data center footprint by providing energy efficient devices. The offerings includes Servers, Storage, Network, Security and software tools for automation & orchestration to manage the complete infra stack.

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Data Center: A multi - billion Dollar opportunity SMEs are the undisputed powerhouse of India. To keep the fire burning, SMEs have to utilize all its resources for better productivity. While the Union Budget 201415 has done well to promote the interests of this sector, it remains to be seen how many will eventually gain from the proposed schemes.

Data center market in India is expected to grow in a rapid pace in the years to come. BFSI, IT and ITeS, telecom and social media are the major contributors to the growth of data center. Friendly government policies and IT initiatives like SWAN/ SDC/NIC that increase on e-governance Infrastructure and digitization of records further pushed the growth of data center. As per NASSCOM and DELOITTE, the cloud computing market would reach $16Billion by 2020. Survey reveals third party datacenter services in India are poised for strong growth in the years to come and services market is on the flap of definite growth. The datacenter services market is estimated to touch 1.2 billion USD by 2016.This supplement on data center will primarily talk about how hardware and software vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the datacenter space, besides reviewing the strategies, market positioning and future direction of several providers.

The major challenge in the data center business is however Energy and power Consumption. Data centers are highly energy Intensive which implies high cost on the organization for its operations. Increasing energy imposes tremendous pressure on the developers to design energy efficient Data centers. With strong demand from both domestic and International market, there are much opportunities for the data center growth in India and it is absolutely a fact that there is an opportunity for equipment supplier, software vendors and data center operators.

It is true that, growth never happens without intelligently using of experience.

Data centers are critical facilities for supporting the majority of businesses. Starting from managing complexity to improving energy efficiency, from meeting security to business regulatory requirements, data centers face many challenges. No industry can survive long without the right Infrastructure support and industry friendly policy from the government. Like wise if the power issues are sorted out, I am sure many big brothers in this data center business will come and invest and it will be a great potential to them. I do hope that Data Center will help to reduce overall IT budget.

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Industry Overview

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Introduction: Data Center

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Data Centers in India

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In Focus

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Automation

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DDos (Distributed Denial Service)

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Electronics Security

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Enclosures

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UTM & Firewall

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Security - IT

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Load Balancing Solution

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Networking

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Power

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Routers

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Servers

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Software Defined Data center

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Storage

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Structured Cabling

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Switches

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Virtualization

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Business of Cloud leads to growth of Data Center Data center is the heart of most companies’ operations, preserving data to and from users, storage devices and the web. The importance of effective management of increasingly large amounts of data is prompting many companies to significantly upgrade their current operations. The growth of cloud computing continues to rise on the future of the data center. IT leaders are proactive about exploring opportunities and challenges so they can make timely, informed decisions about creating a high-performing next-generation data center.

Data center is mixed with integrated diverse technologies, combining different cabling types, matching capacity to traffic and making sure that the whole system performs reliably, creating a set of complex tasks. Critical issues need to be addressed. Companies have data centers in-house, run them as captive units, or outsource them to specialist players such as Tata Communications, Reliance, Airtel, Netmagic, CtrlS, Sify and others. Typically, there are two types of data centers – Enterprise and Collocation.

Majority of the data centers are privately owned and operated, as each company develops a data center to support their commercial needs. These Enterprise Data Centers are typically treated as a cost center, controlled by the companies’ IT departments and are likely to be highly customized to the needs of that company.

“According to Schneider Electric, in 10 years 80% of datacenters will be outsourced.

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it is first and foremost a change in business model for players in the IT landscape. Enterprises are going all out to replace traditional data center infrastructure technologies and management processes to adopt cloud computing. Companies in particular will shift massively from "purchasing" to "pay per use" model in Data Center architecture and this will mean that datacenters will rapidly shift to co-hosting,” states Amod Ranade - General Manager - Data Center Business Development, Schneider Electric IT Business, India.

Data centers, which initially made their major appearance in India in mid 1990s, have matured into essential business drivers. The India Data Center Services market is growing at a 23% CAGR over the last three years and touched Rs. USD 1.2 billion by the year 2013. India is bound to witness a growth in data center operations owing to the strong demand both from domestic and international markets in last few years.

“India is all set to emerge as an important data center hub of the world. It is all due to influencing factors like swift connectivity from multiple service providers, easily available technical expertise, and decreasing implementation costs. Even during the economic slowdown, the data center market was in the growth path. The other factor influencing the growth of Data centers is e-governance policy and the creation of state wide area networks (SWAN), National informatics centre (NIC) and State data centre (SDC),” remarks Arun Ghosh, Country Head, CyberPower India.

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Since India has been the world’s backyard for IT and back office services for many years, there could be some opportunity for growth with a new ICT policy which is yet to be announced.

“With the new government focusing on Mission Mode Projects like providing citizen centric services etc. and Enterprises focusing on adapting more efficiency on their compute and embracing cloud for non-core requirements, there is a huge opportunity for datacenter business to come up.

Our major focus is helping our customers build Scalable Networks to cater to their changing IT requirements with Cloud Security Services and Managed Security Services,” says Manoj Kanodia, CEO – Inspira.

With the modernization of the data center more data will be collected and this will happen at an even faster pace. “Further there will be more IT data that will be collected. This basically is the promise of the domain of big data. As more and more data gets collected, the challenge for the IT manager will be how can they use this better and how quickly can they use it to drive insights from this data. Tableau will be the frontend to all of this data enabling a better understanding by the users,” informs Deepak Ghodke, Country Manager, Tableau India.

Cloud & Virtualization – going hand in hand The adoption of cloud computing has been increasing over the last few years due to the promise of access from anywhere, and it also enables new services to be rolled out in a fast and agile manner. As organizations move

towards Cloud computing and virtualization to optimize their infrastructure and to meet the needs of their ever demanding applications, a resilient datacenter is the need of the hour. “Technologies such as Virtualization, have driven server consolidation in the data center.

Virtualization of the network, server, storage and application layers in a data center allows dynamic provisioning, routing, processing, storing and retrieving of data in a way that makes key information available to the business in a quick, accurate and in a reliable manner.

The emergence of Cloud Computing and Virtualization are complementary, thus pushing the computing, storage and data infrastructure to be consolidated in the Data Center,” replies Sridhar Iyengar, Vice President - Product Management – ManageEngine.

“Cloud and virtualization are two broad trends that not just driving investments in the data center but are becoming the core of the infrastructure strategy / architecture.

Virtualization investments will help deliver greater utilization levels of the infrastructure and making the IT infrastructure more lean and agile. This means that companies who have deployed virtualization can align business needs and priorities to the IT infrastructure, thus business value,” says Venu Reddy, Research Director – IDC. “Guaranteeing the uptime and guarding against all kinds of disasters would provide lot of scope on all fronts within the datacenter business. Large organizations would ideally like to have the datacenter in house with the above capabilities and majority of the mid-tier organizations would make use of the cloud service providers. Private cloud and public cloud provide enormous scope for growth of datacenter business which includes server, data storage, virtualization, networking and security, etc,” observes Sridharan Mani, CEO and Director. American Megatrends India Pvt Ltd..

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important for any organization, which must be stored and protected extremely cautiously. Enterprises are increasingly generating enormous amount of data and they are using myriad applications.

Therefore, IT professionals are looking at robust, efficient, and cost effective storage,” explains Subroto Das, Director – South Asia & India, WD. He further adds, “We put our datacenter products through extensive Functional

Integrity Testing (F.I.T) prior to any product launch. This testing ensures our products consistently meet the high quality and reliability standards of the WD brand.”

Importantly, India is losing out data center business to small nations and, at present, none of the Internet biggies – Google, Amazon or Facebook – host their data center in India. A big question mark is: Are the biggies seriously considering to set up their data centers in India? n

Quotes Srinivas Tadigadapa Director – Enterprise Solution Sales, Intel South Asia “The revolution in the multi-billion dollar datacenter world is coming sooner in the form of re-architecting of the datacenter—moving from the old, static model of racks of powerhungry servers that have to be manually provisioned, to a new model based on powerefficient high density servers than can be modified on the fly with software tools. Intel’s x86 based servers dominate the data centre space, and cloud has been a major contributor to data centre expansion. Now, big data is expected to provide another thrust to the data centre business."

Shekhar Dasgupta Founder – Greenfield Software “2 years back, the awareness for Data center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) was relatively low but as data centers are proliferating and consolidating, it is becoming significantly higher, with even mid-sized data centers starting to adopt it. Today at least 40% of a customer’s operating cost is power related and nobody would like wastage of so much of computing power. Another point which many do not pay attention to is that in a data center, you do not need necessarily IT people but the large section of manpower that you require are more of non-IT people like plumbers, electricians.”

Adam McCarthy General Manager and Director - Rackspace Asia “Our large base of deployments and strong relationship with vendors such as EMC and NetApp, allows us to get the best options available to a customer, without a considerably higher upfront or ‘all in’ cost. Our solutions from a pure cost perspective are the benefits offered by the scale of our solutions. Coupled with our support staff providing Fanatical Support, not only can we help business with optimized operations and delivery of service, but we can do so while keeping an eye on the bottom-line impact for our customers.”

Tirthankar Banerjee Director, Technology Support Services, HP India Business is demanding more services, innovation, speed and flexibility from data centers. At the same time, it is demanding less energy consumption, infrastructure cost and operations. Aging infrastructure and facilities limit your agility and drain away your IT budget. There is a need to find a way to meet the IT demands of the business while providing the innovative services for company’s competitive advantage. A challenge CIOs face in this aspect is balancing out costs without compromising on data resiliency and application availability."

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Data Centers in India DATA CENTERS IN INDIA

Captive Data Centers In India

Data center consultants

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

Bharti Airtel Ltd.

PWC

Cyquator Technologies

Reliance Data Center

3-i INFOTECH

Cyber Futuristics

INFOSYS

WIPRO

DataGalaxy

ACCENTURE

SIFY

Data First

ITC

PRITHVI

Dimension Data

wipro

TRIMAX

ESDS Software Solution Pvt. Ltd.

TCS

HCL

Go4Hosting

CONVERGYS

NIIT

GPX India Pvt.

COGNIZANT

SPANCO

Honesty Net Solutions

ICICI BANK

GENSAR TECHNOLOGIES

(India) Pvt. Ltd.

BSNL

DELOITTE

Netcon Technologies India

BANK OF AMERICA

SCHANABEL DC CONSULTING

Net4 Data Center

RAILTEL

PTS DATA CENETR SOLUTIONS

Netmagic Solutions

TCIL

HP INDIA

Progression Infonet

VODAFONE

HITACHI

Rackbank Datacenters Pvt. Ltd.

IBM INDIA

RICOH INDIA LTD

EMC INDIA

Server Colocation Sify Hosting Spectranet Tulip Telecom ltd

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In Focus • SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott has

and manages its data infrastructure

Services for India". For organizations

recently said the company would

centrally. Post offices across India can

planning to outsource the hosting

expand its HANA Enterprise Cloud

access daily transactions details on

of their environments running SAP

data center footprint to 20 locations

real time basis.

solutions, they now have the option of hosting services provided by BSNL

from 14 by year-end and India is one of those destinations where its data

• Tata Communications has recently

center will come up. HANA Enterprise

said that it has plans to invest $200

Cloud data center will also come up

million over a period of three years

in China, Australia, Russia, Canada,

to double its data centre capacity in

Mexico and Brazil.

India. It plans to double its capacity from 5 lakh square feet to 10 lakh

• After the Softlayer acquisition, IBM

square feet over a period of three

has been increasing its network of

years.

data centres. The company will be

announced the launch of its second

setting up a new data centre in India

data centre in Delhi recently over 1

by the end of this year as part of its

lakh square feet.

$1.2-billion investment to expand its global cloud footprint. IBM is preparing itself to be a leading player in the global cloud services sector, having invested $7 billion and acquired 17 cloud companies in the last seven years.

• Netmagic, an NTT Communications company, has launched its new

Tata

Communications

has

• At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Cisco has announced a multi-year sales and go-to-market agreement with Microsoft designed to modernize data centers through the delivery and acceleration of integrated

solutions.

Cisco

and

Microsoft will both invest in sales, marketing and engineering resources to drive global alignment.

• Intel CFO Stacy Smith has said that it will be shifting investments towards

• Check Point Software Technologies

the data center business, besides

Ltd. has announced the launch of two

tablets and low-power SoCs. Its data

new security gateways that extend

center business continues to see

the company’s best-in-class data

robust growth as a result of the build

center network security portfolio. The

out of the cloud and the exposure of

new 13800 Appliance extends the

devices that compute and connect to

13000 line while the 21800 augments

the internet.

the 21000 Appliance family.

• Dell has announced its comprehensive

in

• Videocon d2h has selected Brocade

Bangalore. The 100,000 sq. ft. data

Ethernet fabric solutions to revamp

strategy

center is part of NTT’s Global Cloud

its data center networks. The Brocade

smoother customer migration to the

Vision to become a genuine global ICT

VCS Fabric Technology running on

software defined enterprise. Taking

partner for enterprises. Another one is

Brocade VDX switches within its new

its Software Defined Storage vision

soon coming up in Mumbai which will

and existing data centers in order

forward, Dell has entered a global

be a much larger project of 2, 00, 000

to support continued rapid business

agreement with Nutanix to develop

sq ft

growth.

a series of converged infrastructure

100,000

sq.

ft

data

center

• NetApp Bangalore R&D unit will have

• Infosys has entered into a multi-year

a 25,000 square foot data center.

agreement with Daimler AG covering

The data center will support global

management

development and business operations.

services and data centers, providing

The facility is scheduled for completion

e-collaboration

in late 2015. Spread over 15 acres, the

services

total size of the R&D unit will be one

database operations. This agreement

million square foot.

was signed in the second quarter of

• Department of Posts, Govt. of India has recently started its data center at the Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC), Navi Mumbai. The data center hosts the postal department’s servers 12

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as

of

infrastructure

and well

as

middleware overseeing

Infosys financial year 2014.

• BSNL’s six Internet Data Centers, built and operated by Dimension Data have successfully passed the certification audit called "SAP Certified in Hosting

to

enable

faster

and

appliances.

• Sify has announced the launch of "ClouDCentre", the next-generation cloud-enabled

Data

Centre.

This

follows the recent launch of Sify's Tier-3 Green Data Centre at Noida, NCR, which was design-certified by the Uptime Institute. All of Sify's major Data Centres and Cloud infrastructure in India are connected through "Cloudcover", a robust fiber network connecting a total of 36 Data Centres.

Automation

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he data center is the core of IT. One needs it to run smoothly and independently so you can focus on the rest of your business. Hence, it is very necessary to have control on the data center. Manage data center automation complexity and reduce your IT costs by leveraging the expertise of our project managers, consultants and architects. Automation gives us the ability to automate tasks across servers, networks, databases and applications – in both the traditional data center and in the cloud.

The key functions of Automation is to primarily • • • •

Provision and configure seamlessly across all environments Streamline your network and prevent outages Improve efficiency and lower costs Stay compliant with industry regulations and IT standards

Stephen Bovis Vice President and General Manager, HP Servers, Asia Pacific and Japan “Since today’s data centers are ill-equipped to handle the extensive space, power and infrastructure necessary to run the required level of processing power, demand for HPC applications across industries is growing rapidly. As a matter of fact, we are seeing up to 35 percent performance increase in our customers’ Electronic Design Automation application workloads. They have been designed to deliver up to four times the performance of standard rack systems and to shake up the current crop of high-performance computing players.”

Parag Khurana Managing Director - F5 Networks The vision of the automated data center is a lofty one. The automated data center is expected to dynamically provision computing resources in the most efficient manner while also meeting business needs by enforcing service level agreements (SLAs). This goal is a difficult one, as it requires management of resources as well as performance.

Current data center architectures have been built to support performance and capacity requirements, which leave available resources sitting idle. With the growing emphasis on reducing IT budgets, it becomes imperative that IT implement a solution that can not only continue to meet SLAs, but can become more efficient in its use and distribution of computing resources.

SOLUTION VENDORS INTO Automation

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DDoS (Distributed Denial Service) DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service. A malicious hacker uses a DDoS attack to make a computer resource (i.e. website, application, e-mail, voicemail, network) stop responding to legitimate users. The malicious hacker does this by commanding a fleet of remotely-controlled computers to send a flood of network traffic to the target. The target becomes so busy dealing with the attacker’s requests that it doesn’t have time to respond to legitimate users’ requests. That can cause the target system to stop responding, resulting in long delays and outages.

One DDoSer can do a lot of damage. This denial of service attacks is called distributed because they come from many computers at once. A DDoSer controls a large number of computers that have been infected by a Trojan virus. The virus is a small application that allows remote command-and-control capabilities of the computer without the user’s knowledge.

Attley Ng Vice President and General Manager – APAC, Arbor Networks "As businesses around the world grow increasingly reliant upon the uptime of Internet-connected services, there is corresponding growth in the nature, volume and sophistication of DDoS attacks by criminal syndicates and hackers looking to disrupt that service availability. Arbor Networks DDoS mitigation solutions are pervasively deployed in global service provider networks. To reach the enterprise market, we required the reach and resources and relationships of a partner like Ingram Micro. Ingram Micro is the market leader in Asia and we are excited about leveraging their vast resources with a very compelling product for data center operators at a time when network security threats are evolving and presenting acute challenges. Ingram Micro is distributing Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System (Pravail APS) for enterprise network availability and the Peakflow SP platform for large enterprise and service provider networks.”

Business Services Education Financial Services Gaming Internet & Telecom Media & Entertainment Public Sector Software & Technology Figure 5: Industries most frequently targeted by DDoS attacks in Q2 2014

Lakshman Narayanaswamy Co-Founder and Vice President of Products - Sanovi Technologies "Continuous innovation and enhancing our customers’ user experience drives our development. With this in mind, our solutions have improved security features that will help enterprises go great lengths to manage and keep the integrity of their production server, database and application passwords."

Lee Chen CEO and Founder – A10 Networks "DDoS attacks are rapidly evolving to becoming a big number game, with malicious bots or zombie machines directing massive amounts of traffic in unison towards target victims. Effective DDoS solutions must be able to mitigate at equally massive scale and performance to prevent service interruption.

The A10 Thunder TPS Series is designed to provide highperformance and more sophisticated DDoS attacks."

SOLUTION VENDORS INTO DDoS (Distributed Denial Service)

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Electronic Security

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he surveillance function, one of the main applications for security, makes heavy use of CCTVs. The CCTV components are connected directly, as opposed to broadcast television, where any correctly tuned receiver can pick up the signal from the airwaves. The starting point for any CCTV system is the camera, either analog or digital.

Protecting assets within the data center is a crucial aspect of the overall security system, from perimeter security down to the rack level. Physical security is critical to the protection of electronics and telecommunications enclosures. Many data centers focus security efforts on access control to the grounds, the buildings and the secure areas within. Once inside the building, however there is often minimal physical security in place to prevent unauthorized access to the enclosures that store valuable equipment and data by verifying their identities with designated RFID cards or biometrics, Electronic access solutions like Intelligent electronic locks that work with existing user credentials to keep server racks secure and offer access reporting options.

Sudhindra Holla Country Manager - India, Axis Communications "Axis invented the IP Surveillance technology and it today leads the market with over 30% share in IP camera. Our cameras consume 30% to 40% less bandwidth than competitors. For large installations like city surveillance (which stores up to 60 day record), the need for huge storage demands product reliability, high frame rate and good quality video. Axis has an extensive range of IP cameras including thermal cameras and we score over competitors for factors like reliability, energy efficiency, storage, image quality, compression. For this reason, Axis network cameras are used for data security applications around the world."

Srikanth Kamath Country Manager, MOBOTIX AG "The biggest advantage a MOBOTIX AG Security Vision System is that there will be no need of anything else as it combines the NVR / VMS in the Camera with direct connectivity NAS for Storage. The innovative camera design also features a weather-proof IP66 Camera operating -30째C to +60째C at 4Watts of Power, no moving parts and unrivalled robustness ensuring a longer product lifecycle resulting in a lower total cost of ownership over the life of the product.One MOBOTIX camera replaces 5 to 10 normal cameras and gives more accurate detail of wide-angled images with 5 megapixel technology. In case more cameras need to be added to the setup, it does not require any additional license fees."

SOLUTION VENDORS INTO Electronics Security

Axis Communications | Samsung | CP Plus | Honeywell | NEC | Panasonic | Mobotix | Zicom | Tyco | Sparsh | Bosch | Canon | GE | Schneider www.varindia.com

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ll data centers are populated by combination of racks, cabinets and enclosures. Racks and cabinets come in two widths – 483 mm (to accept ‘19-inch’ wide components) and 584mm (to accept ‘23-inch’ wide components). Enclosures and Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) (increasing efficiencies, reducing costs and maintaining availability) are top priorities for today’s data center administrators. In the past, the idea of conserving resources while enhancing performance was next to impossible even to the most experienced IT and facilities organizations. That was until data center infrastructure management came along. Solutions enable you to store, cool, power, manage and secure your critical IT equipment. Optimize data center management and performance for IT systems and data centers.

Shibu Mathews Director - IT and Telecom, Rittal India “Considering the concerns of on-demand service & in order to be able to meet clients’ needs for flexible solutions for new business models Rittal designed Data Center Infrastructure solution which are modular, standardized data centers to support the growing trend towards simple, scalable data centre infrastructures, uniform interfaces and complete automation with optimized Energy efficiency with simplified administration & service. This greatly benefits the IT managers for tendering the best services to his customers. The IT manager has to ensure that the Data Center is dynamic, future proof with ease of expansion for on-demand service with highest Physical security and reliability in term of serviceability / redundancy. In fact, we are the first company to offer a modular standardized data centre in the shape of a single complete solution.”

“Revenues in the global market for IT racks and enclosures to grow by nearly a billion dollars over the next five years, from an estimated $1.7 billion in 2011 to $2.6 billion at the end of 2016. Most of the revenues will be added in Asia, where new data center construction and upgrades are driving a fast rate of growth. Aside from China, other regions expected to grow by double-digits over the five-year forecast include Brazil, the Middle East, Russia, and India” – IMS Report

Shrirang Deshpande Country Head-Data Center Business, Emerson Network Power “Emerson Network Power has an integrated set of tools, products, and services that help manage complexity and change. This offers data centre managers and IT professionals a variety of options while allowing them to optimize performance thereby controlling costs. Our SmartRow is a data center in a row and is a simple, fully integrated row-based infrastructure. Similarly, SmartCabinet is an intelligent integrated infrastructure that combines industry’s finest power, precision cooling and infrastructure management technologies in a sealed environment – which can be placed at any indoor conditioned space. Trellis Platform Express Edition, which is our industry-leading DCIM solution gives customers a holistic, real-time view of the data center across facilities and IT resources, providing the information needed to improve overall operational efficiency and to plan for the future.”

SOLUTION VENDORS INTO Enclosures

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igh Performance Firewall, Next-Gen Firewall and UTM service work for organizations of all sizes – benefits include streamlined and centralized management. Networking security involves the use of various tools that serve the basic purpose of preventing harmful programs from entering a computer.

A firewall blocks programs that you do not want to access your computer. Firewalls and network security ensure that your computer is free from harm. The basic role that a firewall plays is to disallow unauthorized access while letting in everything else. Unified Threat Management (UTM) protects and controls your business assets. Next-generation firewalls are able to perform full packet inspection and can apply security policies based on Layer 7 information. As application connections come and go, the firewall must also create and tear down its own internal data structures to maintain state information for every session.

This state information is checked and updated for every packet that passes through the firewall to provide the highest level of protection against sophisticated attacks.

Rajesh Maurya Country Manager, India & SAARC, Fortinet “As networks continue to accelerate, the data center is at the forefront of the requirement to support higher performance and need high-speed, high-capacity, and low-latency firewalls. With data centers becoming more dynamic, organizations are embracing network segmentation as a best practice to isolate data streams based on applications, user groups, regulatory requirements, business functions, trust levels, and locations. As a result, firewalls need to provide high port density to support physical segmentation and virtual domains/virtual LANs for virtual segmentation.

Fortinet’s FortiGate Network Security Platform can provide the backbone of your Data Center strategy. Fortinet’s industry-leading, high capacity Firewall technologies deliver exceptional throughput and ultra-low latency, enabling the security, flexibility, scalability and manageability you demand in an Edge or Core platform.”

Anil Bhasin Managing Director, India & SAARC, Palo Alto Networks “The next-generation firewalls of Palo Alto Networks give businesses the ability to track security policies to virtual machine creation and movement via dynamic address groups. This ensures that businesses continue to meet security and regulatory compliance requirements. In addition, the ability to integrate next-generation security policies with cloud orchestration software ensures that security does not slow down the automated nature of virtual workload provisioning. Together, these next-generation security platforms safely enable the ‘North-South’ and ‘East-West’ traffic throughout an enterprise’s physical, virtualised and cloud environments. Enterprises will also have full visibility into the applications being used, knowledge of the users accessing those applications, and protection against known and unknown threats.”

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Advantage BSNL IDC A snapshot of our differentiators

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Dimension Data have formed a strategic alliance to provide Indian enterprises the power of cloud computing via their data centre services in India. These services are designed to meet global IT standards, with effective connectivity, manageability and security.

Some of the BSNL IDC differentiators are listed as below:

India’s first Uptime Institute Certified data centres: With combined connectivity and IT services availability from BSNL, we can offer enterprise grade SLAs for Data Centre & Cloud Services with an assured uptime of 99.982%. We are also the world’s largest Uptime certified Tier-III data centre cluster.

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Low latency Internet Data Centre cluster: BSNL’s high speed network scaling up to STM4 connects the data centres to remote locations in India offering LAN like convergence, ideal for synchronous replication of data.

Highest levels of data Integrity and Security: BSNL IDC offers assured protection with security built at five levels covering over 25 check points. We are ISO 27001 certified and compliant to SSAE 16 / ISAE 3402 standards.

True ‘utility’ models: BSNL IDC offers a comprehensive suite of Data Centre & Cloud services designed to meet all client requirements from entry level to advanced usage options.

Integrated service management tool: A globally proven simplified management tool to manage options, provision services, metering and reporting that can be accessed from anywhere is provided to all BSNL IDC clients.

Highly efficient data centre: Our service is backed by the most efficient and agile data centre, enabling greater automation and responsiveness in the delivery of business services. Some of our features include high performance switching architecture, the best switching and routing designs available, hardware-based encryption and more.

At a Glance

Our Portfolio Secure.

We are ISO 27001 certified and SSAE 16 / ISAE 3402 compliant, with over 25 layers of security.

Connected.

Our high-performance, high-availability architecture provides clients a LAN like experience.

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We ensure simplicity in provisioning, monitoring and managing all our services.

Managed Colocation

Private Compute-as-a-Service

Give your business the power of a fullfledged Internet infrastructure with world class facilities at a fraction of its cost.

Hosted within your data centre, this is a dedicated cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) that provides on-demand, selfservice, pay-for-use access and control of virtual servers, storage and networking.

Managed Hosting Deploy IT as a utility with a wide portfolio that can give you the solution you seek, especially when combined with BSNL IDC Managed Services.

Managed IT Services The primary focus of managed services is to enhance efficiency of business management. Relegate repetitive functions and their management to a specialist.

Cloud Services BSNL IDC Cloud Services is probably India’s most comprehensive suite of applications and infrastructure offered as a service Some of the services offered are as listed:

Public Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS) Our Public CaaS is a public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) that provides on-demand, self-service, pay-foruse access and control of virtual servers storage and networking. Our Public CaaS has enterprise-class security, controls and performance guarantees.

Hosted Private Compute-as-aService Hosted at the BSNL IDC, this is a dedicated cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) that provides on demand, self-service, pay-foruse access and control of virtual servers, storage and networking.

Desktop-as-a-Service Get secure virtual desktop access to your applications, files and email anywhere you want. Support structures are available 24/7 with remote control capabilities allowing easy assistance.

Video-as-a-Service An enterprise-class, end-to-end video conferencing solution with a modular and flexible design that enables highdefinition content sharing. The service is fully virtualised and can leverage existing investments in virtualised environments.

Secure Messaging Get the efficiency and freedom of a mobile,

collaborative messaging environment without the administrative overheads.

Secure access is provided to e-mail from within the corporate network or outside, through a number of means.

Enhanced Web Filtering The service integrates inbound and outbound filtering and anti-malware blocks spam, strips threats and reduces risky or unproductive surfing.

Enhanced E-mail Filtering Automatically block spam, phishing scams, viruses, and inappropriate email content in the cloud, before it reaches your network without the hassles of buying hardware, installing multiple software and painful maintenance operations.

Reliable Backup & Restore Our backup and restore services both protect your data and eliminate the complicated and expensive task of managing the data backup lifecycle.

Business Continuity Services Our Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity service ensures your organisation can get back, up and running almost immediately in the event of a disaster.

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e keep the data safe and secure by using dozens of critical security features: Data Center Security Market (Logical Security, IDS, IPS, DDOS, VPN, DNS, SSL, DLP, UTM, IAM, SIEM, DR, ILM) and Physical Security (PSIM, PIAM, Biometrics, HDCCTV, Video Surveillance, Analytics). The latest trends in markets in Information Technology (IT) are virtualized data centers and cloud services. There has also been a significant increase in the growth of mega data centers. The current market for IT is also looking at the increased global IT spending and a significant rise in the spending of enterprises for security solutions to safeguard their data and critical IT infrastructure. The development is also causing new security risks such as more sophisticated viruses, worms, spyware and unauthorized access over the physical and virtualized data centers.

Many organizations have come up with an ever-evolving data center security solutions to secure and defend data center and to deliver secure, dynamic information while identifying vulnerabilities and risks. The solution provides multilayer security for the servers and networks in the data center infrastructure as well as provides end-to-end security management for the data stored in it. In addition to these, it also offers unprecedented levels of targeted security, encryption techniques, antivirus, and firewalls without hampering performance.

Anand Prahlad Managing Director & Head of Operations, McAfee India Center, part of Intel Security “Data center security has traditionally been “bolted on” in retrospect rather than built in during the architectural design stage. Because today’s data centers must be optimally available, flexible, resilient, and secure, the traditional approach compromises their primary intent: robust and uninterrupted service delivery. While a reactive approach has worked with monolithic data centers of the past, it’s no longer viable. Today’s next generation data centres require a proactive, strategic approach to dramatically improve service delivery while reducing risk and improving compliance.

McAfee has developed a collection of data center security solutions managed centrally from McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) to provide a holistic, yet modular security infrastructure for today’s complex data centers. McAfee has specific Data Center suites comprising our Server Security and Virtualization Optimized solutions that are specifically targeted to our Data Center customers.”

Murali Ramalingam Country Manager and Senior Director of Sales, Ixia “Advanced threats are unique for its characteristics change based on the defense it is up against. Their sophistication, redundancy and persistency have successfully broken down many seemingly strong defensive networks. Time and again these threats have proven that stopping attack does not mean signature detections from firewalls but a collaborative effort from several network devices like next generation fire walls, unified threat management devices, DDoS mitigates, log collectors, etc. With Ixia’s applications and security solution enterprises can replicate hundreds of well-known advanced threat methodologies through their network defenses. This gives the enterprises the opportunities to both singularly assess each of its network components security effectiveness and also validate the collaboration between all to detect, isolate and prevent any types know/unknown threats that may occur in its production network.”

SOLUTION VENDORS INTO Security IT

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load balancing hardware is a device utilized for splitting the amount of network loads across different servers, somewhat the same way a software load balancer is used. It controls computers to respective servers in a network, built on the conditions such as utilization of server processor, the number of server connections, and the total server capability. By using a load balancing hardware, one can reduce network downtime, effectively manage traffic prioritization, apply end-to-end application monitoring, supply user authentication, and provide protection or security against malicious attacks. Load balancing works by sending network traffic to a shared IP (often called virtual IP or VIP), which is an address connected to the load balancer.

Load balancing is important because under normal conditions, load balancing helps maximize available capacity and performance of a given resource, including storage space and processor time.

Mandar Kulkarni Senior Vice President - Solutions Engineering & Private Cloud Practice, Netmagic - An NTT Communications Company “If you look at the change in perception that has happened over the years, customers are not worried about security but are more concerned about the compliance. In the early years we would have to convince customers about security but it is not so now. We have been delivering standard data center services for last 15-16 years and load balancing is one of those services. Our load balancing services enhance availability and performance. This service could operate either among servers within the Netmagic datacenter, or could be between geographically separated facilities."

Shibu Paul Regional Sales Director – India, ME and SEA Array Networks "Over the years, pointlevel products such as load balancers, SSL accelerators, caches and the like have been consolidated into robust solutions called application delivery controllers (ADC). Today, ADCs give IT the control necessary to quickly map application delivery solutions to new business initiatives by flexibly implementing business logic across data center infrastructure to achieve both technical and business agility. It increases application performance up to 10X, reduces server requirements and costs by 50% on average and reduces WAN bandwidth utilization and costs by 30% on average."

Anshuman Singh Director, Product Management of Application Security, Barracuda Networks “Data centers are becoming the central location from where organizations are rolling out their IT services. The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC also has the built in Web application security module. This platform is utilized by organizations to distribute and optimize the traffic that is flowing into their data centers and to their servers hosting Email, DNS or FTP services or even Virtual desktop solutions. Barracuda Load Balancer ADC supports scalability for application in a single data center and also support Global Server Load Balancing to provide data center fail over. If organizations utilize virtual desktop environments then Barracuda Load Balancer can also help scale to those deployments.”

SOLUTION VENDORS INTO Load Balancing Solution

FireEye | Radware | Array Networks | Barracuda | McAfee | A10 | F5 | HP Citrix | Blue Coat www.varindia.com

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oday’s modern infrastructure is built around data-on-demand and a constantly connected end-user. More organizations are utilizing elements of cloud computing and are striving to be more agile. One challenge facing many organizations is that they are inhibited by their legacy network infrastructures which are often proprietary. Their networks are no longer able to meet current business demands, let alone support business growth or new technological innovations. It is important to find the right medium of technology where your organization can increase network capabilities and performance without increasing costs.

Amandeep Singh Dang Country Manager – Dell Networking “We are a very forward-looking from an enterprise strategy stand-point. When we do our hardware engineering, the biggest chunk in a 5 year ownership on IT asset is not the cost of CAPEX but the cost of OPEX. From a market standing that we have in India, we can say that the biggest pain point of the CIO will not be the cost of his asset but the cost of rack space, power and air-conditioning. Networking is not a revenue-generating asset but storage is where you gain the extra bucks because you keep information and earn money out of it. We have networks of whatever the industry benchmark is, we have cut it down by more than half in terms of size and capacity. For instance, for every 20 racks that a customer requires, traditionally he would reserve 2 racks for networking. But from our solution per se, Dell networking can be seamlessly integrated to the other racks and so I return 2 racks back to the customer, thus reducing the rack cost for him.”

“Data Center Networking Market to reach $21.85 Billion by 2018. Adoption of next-generation Ethernet switches, SAN products, and network security tools as data centers becomes increasingly virtualized will drive market growth” – MarketsandMarkets

Prakash Krishnamoorthy Country Manager, HP Networking, HP India “HP Advisory Services experts offer industry insights and proven approaches to help organizations in the areas of New Style of IT that develops a transformation strategy and roadmap using an integrated approach with a governance framework to achieve defined business goals; Applications Modernization and Cloud that review critical applications and develop an application modernization strategy designed to heighten innovation and accelerate business agility; Analytics and Security to ensure a consistent, measurable and proactive approach to manage risk and compliance.”

George Chacko Systems Engineer Manager and Lead Technical Consultant, Brocade “From a data center per se, we have Ethernet fabric solutions, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions to offer. Besides there is the Brocade Vyatta platform which is the first phase of a multiyear strategy and encompasses proven Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and emerging SoftwareDefined Networking (SDN) technologies based on open standards and open source initiatives. Storage has been virtualized long back, after which computing followed thereafter with a hypervisor kind of architecture. Network was the last piece that required to be virtualized as we feel that this virtualization of networks is a stepping stone to the Cloud.”

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for Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services, shared in recent years with the introduction of eco-mode and Scientific American(November 2013) that researchers intelligent paralleling and can now produce efficiencies at Microsoft are studying the feasibility of powering a approaching 99 percent, making them less likely, in the minds data fuelmost cells integrated into to help ata center center entirely power by is the importantdirectly component maximizetouptime, increase of participants, be displaced by competing technologies. the server racks, bringingcost thesavings. power plant inside capacity and improve As we oftenthe say in our business, power monitoring data center and minimizing power losses.and overall Otherefficiency hardware approaches that could challenge the AC UPS gives operators greater transparency into distribution the energy usage of their data On- or near-site energy generation, i.e., micro-grids, will according to this study include a momentary duty inverter center operations. benefit from improved end-to-end energy conversion, that provides just enough ride-through power to switch to an transmission and distribution efficiencies. sourcethe (27 percent) Data center power monitoring systems can be a powerful tool toalternate help achieve overall and DC UPS (13 percent).

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M Gurudutt Direct Channel Business, Schneider Electric IT Business, India "India’s Data Center market which stands at USD 2.5 billion in 2013, is expected to grow to USD 3 billion by 2016, growing at CAGR 8.5% every year. With multiple applications running simultaneously, organizations are looking at a more centralized operation and hence the dependency on Data Centers is increasing."

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Suhas Joshi VP, Delta Power Solution “For power distribution requirements of medium to large data centers, effective Power Distribution Cabinet (PDC) providing an optimal solution is a necessity. The space-saving PDC is easy to move and adapt to future reconfigurations of the data center. The PDC offers superior power protection and monitoring, and the flexibility to match actual power distribution requirements.”

SOLUTION VENDORS INTO POWER

APC (Schneider) | Delta | Emerson | Numeric | Socomec www.varindia.com

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usinesses today want their networks to support all forms of media, as well as new wireless and wired devices. To meet these challenges, networks must contain intelligence, and integrate advanced applications into an adaptable, pervasive and collaborative system.

Through Router that connects multiple networks together, typically at Layer 3 (network layer) of the OSI model and acts as a gateway and can connect networks of different protocols, it provides access to applications and services, and integrates technologies and applications.

Surya Panditi Senior Vice President and General Manager, Service Provider Networking Group, Cisco “If you think about ultra HD video or cloud, which all of our customers are doing and then machine-to-machine which is also adding to the kind of scale that's needed, and then mobility; in order to support them, you need to evolve the programmable networks. The new family of routers, dubbed the Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS), creates a network fabric that Cisco says will arm service provider networks with the bandwidth and scalability they need to support these jumps in traffic. NCS is also, however, designed to help service providers prepare their networks for the burgeoning Internet of Everything, which Cisco said is creating trillions of programmable events or "conversations" between people, applications and devices.”

Rajesh Maurya Country Manager, India & SAARC, Fortinet “At the heart of the FortiGate Data Center firewalls are purpose-built FortiASIC processors that enable extremely high levels of performance. These custom processors provide nearwire speed switching, routing, and stateful firewalling. The FortiASIC processors eliminate the need for legacy L2 switches and routers within the datacenter. Instead, the FortiGate device can perform network segmentation, switching, routing, and network security, all while reducing network complexity.”

Mike Marcellin, Senior vice president of strategy & marketing, Juniper Networks Today’s distributed business is forcing enterprises to build new data centers, adopt clouds, and move existing servers and clusters of servers to geographically distributed locations in order to provide nonstop, reliable, and secure access to critical business applications for users anywhere, anytime. Juniper’s holistic approach to interconnecting data centers and clouds simplifies and accelerates the deployment and delivery of applications within and across multiple data center locations. Being at the forefront of data center routing, Juniper enables seamless physical-to-physical, physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual network connectivity and translations.

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erver is a combination of hardware and software that provides applications, such as corporate-mail and webhosting, to client computers. There are various types of servers being used in data centers like proxy, mail, web, application, real-time communication, FTP server and server platforms. Successful businesses are continually seeking new ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their strategies and tools. Their expansion into new markets typically relies on their ability to do more with less. The performance of server improved and the amount of revenue tied up in space, power and equipment went down.

Alan Atkinson VP and GM, Dell Storage “Dell is in an industry leading position to deliver server-centric, software-defined systems to automate and simplify IT. Dell’s IT vision is customer led, defined by software, accelerated by hardware and standards driven for value and choice for our customers no matter where they start or what workloads they are seeking to run.”

HP Maintains Big Q1 Server Share Lead Hewlett-Packard maintained its top spot for server shipments in the first quarter of 2014, according to research firm Gartner’s server market-share numbers. HP’s share of the server revenue pie was 25.5 percent. Worldwide server shipments increased 1.4 percent year over year, according to Gartner, while revenue declined 4.1 percent. The Asia-Pacific region, however, was a bright spot with 3.3 percent revenue growth and 18 percent growth in shipments.

Vikram K Director – Servers, HP India “HP Apollo builds on HP’s legacy of server leadership and innovation, leading the market in the creation of x86 servers, blade servers and HP Moonshot extreme lower-power, software defined servers.

The new HP Apollo portfolio includes the aircooled HP Apollo 6000 System, which maximizes performance efficiency and makes HPC capabilities accessible to a wide range of enterprise customers. The HP Apollo 8000 System, a supercomputer that combines high levels of processing power with a groundbreaking water-cooling design for ultra-low energy usage. Comprehensive HP Apollo Services that make HPC more accessible through financing, assessment services, deployment and HP Datacenter Care support.”

Ali Alasti Senior VP, Hardware Development, Oracle “With Oracle’s x86 elastic computing capabilities — achieved by engineering together the server design based on Intel Xeon Processor E7-8895 v2 with Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux — customers can configure these systems to dynamically optimize for core count or core performance to support optimal performance for a given workload. The Sun Server X4-4 and Sun Server x4-8, the newly launched enterprise-class servers further Oracle’s goal of simplifying IT and significantly reducing operating expenses for our customers by delivering products that are best for Oracle Database In-Memory Option and business analytics.”

SOLUTION VENDORS INTO server

American Megatrends | CISCO | DELL | EMC | HITACHI | HP | HUAWEI | NETAPP | NETGEAR | IBM | FUJITSU | TP-LINK | ORACLE www.varindia.com

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he IT architecture for the new cloud era with software-defined data center (SDDC) virtualizes all data center resources: compute, storage, network and security, for new levels of agility and automation to all of the data center’s resources and services to achieve IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS). Data centers are rapidly evolving to accommodate higher expectations for growth, consolidation, and security. In a software-defined data center, all elements of the infrastructure – networking, storage, CPU and security – are virtualized and delivered as a service. While ITaaS may represent an outcome of SDDC, software awareness in the infrastructure is not visible to tenants.

Demands for scalability, flexibility and high availability can be summarized as follows: • Scalability — A data center must support fast and seamless growth without major disruptions.

• Flexibility — A data center must support new services without a major overhaul of its infrastructure.

• High availability — A data center must have no single point of failure and should offer predictable uptime (related to hard failures).

Analysts project that at least some software-defined data center components will experience strong market growth in the near future. The software-defined networking market is expected to be valued at about US$3.7 billion by 2016, compared to US$360 million in 2013. IDC estimates that the software-defined storage market is poised to expand faster than any other storage market. (SDN) architecture, customers would be able to protect their investment by utilizing SDN interface to enable unparalleled interoperability with third-party solutions as well as leverage OpenStack plug-ins for full orchestration across the entire network.

Tarun Kaura Director – Technology Sales, Symantec India “According to the results of Symantec’s 2012 State of the Data Center Survey, in order to increase overall efficiency, the industry will see the concept of Software Defined Datacenter, which virtualizes the server, network, and storage levels, gaining more prominence. SDDC will bring in a more efficient and centralized model of utilizing IT resources. Symantec product portfolio is aligned with the market needs providing the best of products. Symantec being an information protection expert has an exhaustive portfolio which provides not just Symantec, but its customers the competitive edge. Symantec recently announced latest version of Storage Foundation 6.1, Backup Exec 2014, NetBackup 7.6. NetBackup 7.6 is Symantec’s proof point for the modern, software-defined data center – one that is agile, high performance and heterogeneous.”

Prakash Krishnamoorthy Country Manager, HP Networking, HP India "Software-defined Networking (SDN) is enabling opportunities that develop new applications which shape how the network functions are secured for end user or mission critical business applications. Along this are the opportunities for network integrators and system integrators to put together complex networks that are becoming platforms for next-gen enterprise applications. SDN finds extensive applications across verticals like Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), Healthcare, Education, Government and Energy, as it extends the power of networking programing to give the application the ultimate control needed to meet the demands of business.

SDN can be deployed for video and collaboration applications, converged storage and mobile network service orchestration."

Yogesh Sawant Director, Partner Sales and Field Alliances Organization, India, Hitachi Data Systems “Virtualization is central to the software-defined data center, the three major building blocks of the SDDC being network virtualization, storage virtualization and server virtualization. As our focus being technology driving business outcomes, we have recently announced the next step in storage virtualization, supporting a continuous cloud infrastructure. Storage Virtualization OS is the first standalone software implementation system and customers have greater choice, flexibility and a simplified infrastructure for a future-ready path to the software-defined data center without the complicated layers required by competitive offerings. Similarly, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 helps companies deploy a single platform for all data.”

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Storage

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torage is an increasingly important and complex component in the modern data centers.

Requirements for fast data access combined with other often conflicting requirements for retention, legal discovery, longevity, integrity, accessibility, security, disaster recovery must be carefully balanced. The recent move towards cloud infrastructures signal an additional requirement to convert traditional capital expenses (CAPEX) into operational expenses (OPEX). This has the effect of shining a spotlight on the existing operational costs of storage, which brings the power usage of the equipment into a much sharper focus than has been traditionally seen.

Abhijit Potnis Director Technology Solutions - India and SAARC - EMC “The storage industry is in transformation impacted by the megatrends of SMAC (social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud) that are impacting enterprises globally and in India. We are seeing increased adoption of technologies such as Flash; Unified/Converged, Scale out capabilities (Scale out NAS); preferred journey to the Cloud – either through best of breed or customized or converged ready to use. Additionally, enterprises while considering storage today also use the filter of technological capabilities such as data deduplication, back-up and recovery, flash ready and automation intelligence or FAST (fully automated storage tiering). As an agile leader, we have continuously spotted trends early and have invested ahead of the curve in addressing enterprise customer needs.”

Santhosh D’ Souza Director- Systems Engineering, NetApp Marketing & Services Pvt. Ltd India “As data center requirements continue to change and technology partners deliver new capabilities to market, NetApp has been advancing industry leading technologies to meet the requirements of the customers. NetApp has a comprehensive flash portfolio across all cores of used cases and we are continuously expanding our flash portfolio offering. The recent launch of our new High-End Hybrid Storage System – FAS8080 EX and the new Entry-Level FAS2500 is a testimony to our efforts to provide best in class solutions to enterprises."

Barun P Lala Director – Storage Division, Enterprise Group, HP India “HP OneView’s enhanced capabilities extend management across HP 3PAR storage and supports flexible storage resource pools with converging automation of servers and storage. The newly enhanced HP ConvergedSystem platform for IT-as-a-Service combines HP OneView with HP ConvergedSystem for Virtualization to provide a common management platform across servers, storage and networking. The new HP platform automates routine tasks, simplifies complex IT tasks and breaks down IT silos with a single, integrated view of devices in a data center. Simplifying these everyday tasks, reduces IT operational expenses and decreases response times to business needs.”

Neeraj Matiyani Director – Storage Business, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell “In the last few years, we are seeing a lot of interests coming around converged solutions and systems. Several characteristics make converged infrastructure well suited to cloud deployments. Now customers are evaluating if whether they manage their infrastructure themselves or do they get somebody else do it on their behalf. This is a transition happening in the industry and is still in process. However, the risks and the costs involved are not standardized yet and so we are telling our customers to continue with their stand-alone solutions if they are happy with it. There are also a lot of architectural changes that have happened with technology around storage becoming more open.”

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Structured Cabling

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he design and quality of the passive cabling components can have a major impact on the performance and reliability of your data center and network. Many data centers today are victims of historical point-to-point cabling practices like direct connections – "Point-to-Point" (i.e. from switches to servers, servers to storage, servers to other servers, etc). A standards-based structured cabling system will provide functionality and scalability with the maximum available options for current and future equipment. While Top of Rack (ToR) and End of Row (EoR) equipment mounting options are now available, these should supplement, not replace, a structured cabling system. Data center cabling pathways and spaces are often overlooked until late in the design process. However, careful and early planning can save time and frustration later. Underfloor and overhead are the two most common ways to handle the cabling between cabinets and areas within the data center.

The wiring for a data center can be a work of art or a bird's nest. Most data centers have at least three different types of cabling (copper, fibre and power). In addition to providing increased resiliency, data centers have two sets of each type of cable, referred to as A side and B side. That allows the systems housed in the data center to connect to redundant power, networks, etc by being connected to both the A and B side cabling. Keeping separation between the copper wires and the power cords is important because the power cords could cause disruption to the signals on the copper. Of course, fibre is not affected by that type of interference.

Michel Riva CEO - R&M "We have been able to grow rapidly in India year on year and with the acquisition of AFS we are looking forward to broaden and strengthen our fiber optic portfolio. AFS has been a certified assembly partner for R&M so it will be a smooth transition in terms of technology implementation.

This will be a very important year for R&M's fiber solutions. We can now actively participate in the growing fiber-optic network deployments, Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) roll-outs and Data Center projects. I remain confident that our high-quality approach and greater local presence will take us to the next level in India."

K.K. Shetty Director, India & SAARC (Enterprise & Telecom Networks), TE Connectivity "The demand for data centre space is from IT and IT-enabled service firms, banking and financial services sector, telecom companies, Internet service providers and consumer goods firms.We have had setup several data centres for the Government sector. As far as our data center solutions are concerned, Fiber and copper connectivity products remain at the core of our portfolio. Forming the physical infrastructure that connects the vital storage, application and networking assets of a data center, its product set is engineered to offer optimum performance while addressing the business needs for agility and efficiency.�

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Switches

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witch is a networking device that connects multiple segments together and typically operates at Layer 2 (data link layer) of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model.

Switches scale to meet the needs of networks of all sizes. Adapt your network to meet evolving business requirements and optimize new application deployments and get highly secure multitenant services by adding virtualization intelligence technology. Build a data center network based on switches that promote infrastructure scalability, operational continuity, and transport flexibility. Scale network performance and reliability with industry-leading network services, integrated service modules, and validated design guides.

Subhodeep Bhattacharya Regional Director – India & SAARC, NETGEAR Technologies In data center business, confidence is everything. When it comes to the network, it’s even more important. The NETGEAR Stackable, Managed 10 Gigabit Switch M7300 XSM7224S comes with a removable power module for the main power supply with a second internal redundant power supply available as an option. It allows for a flexible top-of-rack infrastructure. All 24 ports of 10 Gigabit SFP+ interfaces are Gigabit/10 Gigabit capable and deliver wired speed performance with ultra low latency. Two removable fan trays increase the availability of the system, providing frontto-back cooling airflow for best compatibility with data center hot aisle / cold aisle airflow patterns.

Mr. Anuj Goel, Pre-Sales Consultant, IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent, India "At Nuage Networks, which is a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, we have developed a highly advanced software-only SDN solution that abstracts, virtualizes and automates any existing datacenter network. We are bringing the most sophisticated network technologies but we do that without the end user getting exposed to any of the complexities; rather we provide easy to use tools to manage, deploy, operate and troubleshoot these networks. We remove all constraints for all work-loads in the data centers. All workloads get connected to the network instantly at L2 and L3, with L4 enforcement, within or across data centers."

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Virtualization

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ransitioning from a physical data center to a virtualized environment takes careful planning to avoid downtime or data loss that can hurt employee’s productivity, customer’s satisfaction and business in general.

Data center virtualization, which includes storage, desktop, and server virtualization, reduces overall IT equipment electrical load through consolidation of systems. The resulting energy savings can be further maximized if IT or facilities managers adjust the power and cooling infrastructure to accommodate the reduced loads. The use of virtualization in the data center has led to a money-saving increase in processing power by eliminating the need to purchase more expensive hardware. Virtualization also helps organizations meet the high-intensity processing requirements of video conferencing, especially as it pertains to highdefinition (HD) and multiple users.

Atul Ahuja Director - Desktop & Apps, Microsoft Alliance, India Sub Continent, Citrix “Employees are demanding the freedom to choose their own devices at workplace, as an outcome of consumerization of IT. Therefore, many organizations are driving workspace transformation by adopting mobility solutions and implementing BYOD strategies, which empower employees while protecting enterprise data and simplifying IT manageability. This has triggered organizations to embrace a virtual desktop environment, replacing traditional desktop infrastructure and thus, desktop virtualization has evolved into a mainstream technology redefining the way we work and empowering mobile workforce. However, many companies, including a majority of SMBs, have continuously faced challenges in the adoption of desktop virtualization primarily due to the initial investment or due to a lack of skilled staff capable of sustaining it.”

Sanjay Biswal Country Manager - India QNAP “Virtualization increases the efficiency of IT management and the availability of IT applications and resources.

QNAP Turbo NAS provides a high-performance, reliable and affordable storage solution for virtualization applications such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. In addition, QNAP provides the Virtualization Station which is available on the QTS App Center and enables virtualized desktop operations on the Turbo NAS for managing multiple virtual machines.”

Nitin Raina Global Director – Client Infrastructure Delivery, ThoughtWorks “We continue to leverage use of virtualization technologies like VMware ESXi and XenServer. This lets project teams spin up environments for development and testing. We also use VMware’s vCenter tool to manage our VM inventory. We have deployed industry grade networking solutions using Cisco’s 4600 Catalyst range of switches to provide a stable and reliable environment for hosting. Dell continues to be our provider of choice for enterprise servers.

They seem to offer a wide range of x86 server hardware.”

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Video Conferencing

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ideo conferencing uses audio and video telecommunications to bring people at different sites together. This can be as simple as a conversation between people in private offices (point-to-point) or involve several (multipoint) sites in large rooms at multiple locations. Besides the audio and visual transmission of meeting activities, allied video conferencing technologies can be used to share documents and display information on whiteboards.

Multi-party video conferencing may be one of the inter-data center networks. It is typical for enterprises to rely on services from cloud providers in order to build a scalable platform with abundant available resources to satisfy user demand, and for cloud providers to deploy a number of data centers interconnected with high-capacity links, across different geographical regions and with the objective of maximizing the total throughput across all conferences, yet without violating end-to-end delay constraints.

Minhaj Zia, Managing Director, India & SAARC, Polycom "Polycom RealPresence One organizations can choose from the new, flexible video delivery options available, including hybrid and on-premises video, depending on the option that works best for their business models and budgets. All of the options include the same benefits now what the size of the investment making RealPresence One truly scalable.”

Rajesh Rege, Director and Country Head (Datacenter & Cloud Business Entity), Cisco India / SAARC “Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) around Linux and OpenStack will help ensure that our customers, especially in the government, telecom and Internet service provider space, have access to the virtualized, highly secure, and economically compelling solutions needed for them to leverage the full benefit of the cloud."

Gary E. Barnett, senior vice president & GM, Collaboration Platforms – Avaya “With an increasingly mobile and remote workforce, user preferences for BYOD, a growing number of multivendor technologies and cloud based applications, Avaya is helping businesses to support, simplify and scale to meet demands and keep a competitive edge. Avaya’s collaboration portfolio enables those businesses to seamlessly integrate the technologies they choose, no matter the vendor.”

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WAN Optimization

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AN optimization is a collection of techniques for increasing data-transfer efficiencies across WAN (Wide Area Network).

WAN optimization devices are used to optimize end-user traffic mainly. Employers connecting to remote applications can achieve better user experience if a couple of WAN optimizations are deployed. Typically, web applications, file sharing and email can be well accelerated: end-users can increase their productivity with a little investment.

WAN optimization is not just a data compressor. It optimizes data transmission over media with lower bandwidth and higher latency. Let us assume that two data centers are interconnected using an MPLS network provided by an ISP. The links are pretty reliable and the packet loss ratio is very low. One data center is main and active, the other one is secondary and standby.

Shibu Paul Regional Sales Director – India, ME and SEA - Array Networks “Array is a global leader in the Application Delivery Networking space (ADN) and most of the constituents in ADN technology directly helps cost optimization of Data centers. ADC’s helps in optimizing servers, Optimizing bandwidth, accelerating applications, reducing the infrastructure & inducing added security at application & network layer. WAN optimization helps to optimize and accelerate the WAN traffic and applications associated with it. In short, all our products are targeted at optimizing and accelerating IT infrastructure bringing in operational efficiency in your data center. Array is working very closely with some of the Indian service providers (Cloud) and enabling them to develop offerings that can compete against the mighty global players. We have specifically developed cost effective virtualized solutions for cloud service providers.”

Bill Ting Marketing Evangelist, APAC & Japan, Riverbed Technology

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“Distance, delay, and inefficiencies can dramatically slow down the access to data and applications over the Internet or a wide area network (WAN).

By attacking the causes of slow performance, Riverbed WAN optimization accelerates applications and data transfer, so distributed employees can be much more productive. Through this technology, Riverbed aims to enable location independent computing, where users can access centralized information with consistent performance no matter where they reside. At the same time IT gains control and visibility across datacenters and branch offices. Riverbed SteelHead is the industry’s leading WAN optimization solution that accelerates the delivery of applications from datacenter or the cloud to the branch, and allows IT to control or prioritize delivery of mission-critical applications over the fastest networks.”

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To conclude...

Data centers are the nerve centers of an organization. Traditionally, enterprise data centers were built to deliver quality services, supporting the corporate mission.

However, data centers have undergone a gradual transformation in the context of cloud, mobility and virtualization. Next generation data centres have emerged as a viable option enabling firms to transfer IT assets from capex to opex, thus freeing resources to focus on core businesses.

Data center operation, which made its first appearance on the Indian soil in the mid-nineties, is in for a big overhaul. India is witnessing a strong demand for IT services coming from both domestic and international market and this eventually is leading to the unfolding of a big opportunity in the data center space. According to the Datacenter Dynamics 2013-14 Annual Census, India is now the world’s third largest internet user after US and China, with an estimated number of 151,598,994 users making it one of the Hyper emerging Markets in the world. India will become one of the 5 largest datacenter markets in the world by 2050 and this presents a unique opportunity to the datacenter industry here. Some of the big names in the enterprise data center space today like HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco, Emerson,Brocade, EMC, Microsoft, Array Networks, Huawei,Tyco, Fortinet, Schneider, McAfee and Check Point to name a few are the ones who will make this growth happen.

A revolutionary technology that is here to transform life and society is IoT (Internet of Things). The day is not far when IoT will become commonplace and make homes, health monitoring systems, energy management, etc., smart. Among other things, IoT is believed to have a big impact on the data center. Gartner estimates that IoT will facilitate 26 billion units installed by 2020. The brunt will be felt by data centers of the workload and will need to make necessary adjustments to meet customer expectations. But it can also be a big opportunity for more data centers to spring up in the country to keep up with the steady stream of Big Data and analyze it in real-time.

Of all the other market drivers in the country, the Indian Government, having started initiatives like Aadhaar, SDCs, NeGP Mission Mode and the latest e-procurement for all government buying process has emerged as one of the major drivers for the data center in India. National and state governments are setting up their own data centers with the prospect to store citizen data and deliver seamless government services to them. eGovernment initiatives are hence driving a big demand for Indian data centers. Also contributing largely in terms of the huge data generated are the telcos, financial services, banks, call centers, e-commerce and Social Media that are soon adopting data-center based operations and hence will drive the data center business in the country.

Samrita Baruah Asst. editor, VARINDIA

So where does India stand when it comes to data center hosting? While it still remains a far-fetched dream for India to emerge as a data center hub at least in the next few years, it brings some degree of elation and positivism to find biggies like Microsoft and IBM establishing a data centre very soon in India that would allow it to offer its cloud solutions more seamlessly to Indian businesses.While a few of the businesses still continue to have their captive data centres, the data centre hosting market will grow, as hinted by many, notwithstanding the challenges that it is maimed with today.

But for that we need to wait and watch and find out how far this prophecy comes true!

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