Netmagic's data center located in Mumbai's Bombay Stock Exchange facility
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Indian data center market will reach $1.3 billion in 2016 with help from telecommunication providers and hosting providers expanding their infrastructure in the country, a recent study by research firm Gartner claims.
According to the press release, Indian data center capacity will reach 6.6 million square feet by 2016 as service providers continue to meet demand for data center space. By next year, Gartner predicts the Indian data center market will be worth $609.1 million.
This study comes on the heels of Parallels research that shows hosted infrastructure is the most popular cloud service for small and medium-sized businesses.
“A virtualization-led consolidation strategy seems to be the common thread across most data centers in India, which would lead to moderate capacity growth,” Naresh Singh, principal research analyst at Gartner said in a statement. “Indian data center managers are becoming increasingly concerned about facilities (power, cooling and space) and disaster recovery for reasons of cost optimization and business continuity.”
In the past few months, Indian web hosting providers Netmagic and ESDS have announced expansions to their infrastructure. Netmagic opened a 40,000 square foot data center in Delhi, and ESDS announced that it will open three new Indian offices in 2012, in Mumbai, Bangalore and Indore, respectively.
“Indian telecommunications service providers such as Reliance, Tata, Airtel and Sify have rapidly expanded their data center business during the last three years, adding several hundred square feet of data center space in the Tier 1 cities — primarily in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore,” Naveen Mishra, principal research analyst at Gartner said in a statement. “Carrier-neutral hosting providers such as Netmagic and CtrlS have had strategic investors funding them to expand their operations by building new sites in cities such as Mumbai and Bangalore.”
A week ago, IBM announced that it has deployed a 6,000 square foot array of solar panels at a data center in Bangalore, India. The system connects directly to the data center’s water-cooling and high-voltage DC systems, and powers about 20 percent of the data center energy.
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