Improving Efficiency through Data Centre
Today’s businesses are literally on the fingertips and can be accessed from anywhere across the world even available on the smallest touch screen device possible. This is so because the business revolves around large volumes of electronic data stored at various data centers spread across geography.
The expansion of business operations brings in more applications, automation, data access, data security as well as IT infrastructure to support these needs. Further, the need to meet the emerging trends in IT infrastructure only leads to complex computing environments. This has paved way for the outsourcing of IT infrastructure. India with its large storehouse of qualified, trained and skilled personnel being cost effective as compared to the western countries has opened up avenues to develop Data centers in India. A number of large organizations have chosen to set up dedicated hosting servers in India to provide services globally.
Data being most valuable asset for any business, loss or exploitation of the same can bring down the entire business; its revenues and reputation in one go. Hence these Data centers play a major role in providing business houses with secure data storage and management facilities. With the opening up of economy and government’s initiatives to improve the IT infrastructure in India has motivated many organizations to develop data centre in India.
With top of the class infrastructure, dedicated hosting facilities, firewall protection, data security and backup solutions, these data centers also ensure a 24/7 support for their clientele. These data hubs are designed to eliminate any single point of failure. The designers of these data centers have combined high-speed Internet backbones with strong connectivity to ensure effective distribution of data and reduction of time taken by the end users to connect to the servers. These centers are manned round the clock by highly skilled technical manpower, armed with world-class tools, systems, and processes. With security and surveillance at various levels, these data centers ensure safety of data and critical IT infrastructure.
A market survey of the number of data centers setup in the country show a concentration of the same in six metro cities, with an expected market growth of nearly 35% in the coming years towards the tier II cities. The existing ones are strategically located, with energy efficient hosting and management of data services, they cater to a number of industrial business houses and automobile manufacturers worldwide.
Aligning themselves to the requirements of the present day market, these centers offer dedicated hosting services with good bandwidth, cloud computing services, remote infrastructure maintenance and disaster recovery services among others.