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Steps for Successful Data Center Consolidation

Data Center Maintenance: A Plan for Guaranteeing Smooth Functionality of Equipment

Infrastructure and Design Tips to Help your Data Center to Go Green

SERVER WALA Akshay Saini, -CEO

PROACTIVE DATA SYSTEM

RAJIV KUMAR MD,CEO

SIFY Raju Vegesna CEO & Founder

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Amit Jain MD, CEO

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Manoj Kundliya, Project Director

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January, 2020

STTelemedia Global Data Centres is one of the fastest-growing data centre providers globally, headquartered in Singapore. The company has grown rapidly organically and through investments in market-leading businesses such as GDS and VIRTUS Data Centres, with over 90 data centres across key business markets including Singapore, China, India, Thailand and the United Kingdom.

STTelemedia Global Data Centres, together with the group of companies, has a global strength matched by our local expertise –teams on the ground who know their home markets best and ensuring that every one of your data centres is developed and operated consistently according to our strictest global standards by our Technology and Centre of Operational Excellence teams, no matter where it is located.

Led by an experienced team, STTelemedia Global Data Centres brings together colocation facilities built to most stringent industry standards, together with scalable end-to-end data centre solutions, connectivity, support services, and cloud infrastructure solutions. Expanding our global platform and providing data centre solutions with flexible commercial terms are our strategic priority, in enabling our customers a greater access worldwide and ease of deployment.

Data Centre Industry – Growth & Trends

Industry Overview:

Today, India is rapidly moving towards digitization. This in-turn has supported the financial and digital inclusion for 1.3 billion Indians. The move towards a digitally connected India is leading towards massive growth in data generation, storage, management and consumption, and in the way data needs to be disseminated to users universally through public and private clouds. Cloud computing is the most disruptive force in the digital age, impacting IT strategy and expenditure, and adopting a cloud-first strategy which has now become necessary in businesses.

Growth:

The digital revolution in India is real, disruptive and well-embraced by consumers and enterprises. It is also aggressively backed by the government through popular initiatives such as GST reforms, Smart Cities, Rupay, UID and various inclusive services for citizens. The government has laid down norms which states that, the data has to be stored locally. These are further fuelled by the boom in fintech and e-commerce industries, while AI and IoT are already leading the trend. A move towards a connected, inclusive digital economy means more and more data is being generated across platforms such as cloud and social media as well as accessed by more people using mobile technology. The data generated needs to be stored, managed and disseminated to users ubiquitously on the devices of their choice through public and private clouds; thereby making data centres the bedrock of digital transformation. The data centre business has witnessed high growth because of these factors and will continue doing so in future.

With digital footprint increasing at a massive rate in India, demand for data centre services are growing manifold and the market is expected to reach $7 billion by 2020. Also, the Indian data centre outsourcing market is expected to grow by 25% CAGR from FY18 to FY24 to reach a value of approximately $5.1 billion. Hence cloud infrastructure as a service, proper cloud management, data security and wellbuilt cloud application infrastructure platform are the key services expected by the consumers or organizations/enterprises from the cloud producers.

Trends:

The year 2019 saw some major data centre trends-

• There is constant rise in the use of hybrid cloud, which is a mix of public and private clouds, thus indicating that more and more businesses are opting to store data in public clouds instead of retaining their personal equipment. Cloud service providers are boosting this by teaming up with public cloud operators, and ensuring frictionless movement of data and applications between two types of cloud spaces.

• With IT being transformed by cloud, the lowering of costs has empowered businesses by scale and flexibility. Now artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) will need to process enterprise data away from a centralised data centre or cloud. Gartner believes, this figure of edge computing within data centre will rise to 50% in 2020 from the current amount of 10%.

• The hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) which helps IT teams to manage data centres easily by combining server, storage and networking components is growing. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the market of HCI shows a revenue growth rate of 36.2% currently.

• IT industries are now increasingly making networks smarter by Intent Based Networking (IBN), which is a management software that turns a business goal into network configuration, through adjustments and optimization of network settings. This has enabled the administrators to get automated tasks based on only their commands.

• European Union’s general data protection regulation has encouraged major cloud providers to allow organisations to choose where their workload and data is stored. Thus, it has been easier for them to follow local regulations and enhance performance level.

Future Plans

STTelemedia Global Data Centres India’s current portfolio includes more than 90 MW of critical IT load spread across 15 carrier-neutral facilities in eight key cities in India. Spread over 1.8 million sq. ft., these include Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Bengaluru.

STTelemedia Global Data Centres India has a definitive and well-defined expansion plan to address their customers’ current and future demands while maintaining a leadership position in the industry.

STTelemedia Global Data Centres India is well on track to more than double its design capacity by March 2020 itself and further take this to more than 200 MW of critical IT load and over 4 million sq. ft. of Gross floor area over the next 2-3 years. The recently launch, 15th data centre is adding 18 MW of critical IT load to the existing capacity.

At the same time, STTelemedia Global Data Centres India will continue to invest in human resource productivity aptly backed by new means like Automation and Artificial intelligence to support their growth plans as well as day-to-day operations.

Sustainability

As the market leader and a technology driven company, management and effective utilization of key resources like people, skillsets and most importantly scarce resources like water and power, is a key priority for STTelemedia Global Data Centres India. With plans to offer more than 200 MW of critical IT load in the next 2-3 years, for STTelemedia Global Data CentresIndia, green is not just a buzz-word, it is an inherent responsibility and a corporate direction for them. Their green strategy is comprehensive and covers saving water, improving overall operating efficiencies including PUE and tapping into green and sustainable power sources. Almost 35% of all the power comes from solar or wind energy making them the largest operator in the country.

Highlights of sustainability practices @STT GDC India

• In India, generally an enterprise enters into long term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for 10-25 years of duration with Renewable Energy (RE) Project Developers for sourcing of Renewable Energy STTelemedia Global Data Centres were one of the first data centre operators in the country who have started procuring RE thru long term Open Access route, and year on year have rapidly increased their green power portfolio

• In addition to this, STTelemedia Global Data Centres is also procuring power from Solar Plants implemented by Project Developers on site (both rooftop & land mounted) in some of their large campuses, offering clean & reliable power without any surges, sags or grid interference

• During FY 18-19, STTelemedia Global Data Centresreduced its carbon footprint by 1,05,000 tonnes through its green and clean energy practices and met 32% of its power requirement from RE sources. STTelemedia Global Data Centres is the first data centre operator in the country to undertake the large-scale deployment of Li-Ion batteries for UPS System in one of its operating data centres. Li-Ion batteries can pack more energy into a smaller space, thus saves footprint. It lasts significantly longer life, so it does not need to be replaced as often. And, most can tolerate higher operating temperatures while also requiring slightly less maintenance

• Via their well-designed airflow management systems (cold and hot aisle system), they have minimized hot and cold air mixing leading to lesser energy consumption. Standardized processes like eco-operation of UPS, enhanced chiller operation, installing LED lighting fixtures in all their data centres and offices leads to better energy efficiency and a significant reduction in their carbon footprint

• India is a water stressed nation. However, while India suffers from water scarcity in most parts of the year, there is excess water during monsoon. STTelemedia Global Data Centres India has implemented rainwater harvesting in many of their facilities to save this excess water, rather than letting it run off. Further, by treating and re-using blow down water from chillers, they save over 336 Kilo Litres of water annually. They have also done pilot projects by using hybrid cooling technologies as well as peripheral techniques like adiabatic cooling to reduce water consumed by chiller plants

• The company is in the process of deploying a new “air to water” generation plant that produces up to 1000 litres of water per day from moisture in the air on a beta basis. These are on-going efforts expected to save even higher amount of water

• Green and sustainability is a corporate direction for STTelemedia Global Data Centres India. Even for their internal meetings and communications needs, they encourage the use of video conferencing and telepresence, and avoid air travel as much as possible, thereby reducing their carbon footprint. By increasing efficiency and driving the adoption of renewables, STTelemedia Global Data Centres India believes they are making a huge difference and demonstrating how green business is good business