The Datacenter Is The Computer

IT organizations are breaking away from conventional technology consumption paradigms and embracing data centers in a big way

- Shrikanth G

Reimagining and Reinventing- the two oft-repeated words one hear often times at this day and age. As we cut through the tech clichés, at the end of rhetoric lies the truth- is it hype or real? When you look at the IT infrastructure that is powering the on-demand ‘everything as a service age’, the data center is at the epicenter, it is actually powering today’s IT infrastructure and reimagining computing.

MARKET DYNAMICS

Setting the tone and context, Sanjay Agrawal, Director of Platforms and Solutions Group, Hitachi Vantara says, “ The current data center market in India is growing at an aggressive pace. The growth in data and digital intelligent devices have paved a new path for the IT infrastructure market.”

What is driving the India data center market is the need for agility the IT organizations are looking at. Many enterprises have acquired heterogeneous IT assets over a period of time - hardware to software spread across locations. Today that very technology plurality is a big challenge to them. The panacea to them is rationalizing the IT infrastructure to a data center driven cloud model that can manifest in many different on-demand ways.

Quips M Muthukumar, VP, Engineering, juniper Networks India & SAARC, IEC, “The India market is opening up to the global trends. From large telcos to banks to global financial giants are setting up massively scalable data centers – with compute, storage and network infrastructure on equipment mounted in 1000+ racks - running their corporate applications. The market is in its evolution stage and has a huge potential for growth in the forthcoming years.”