In the past decade, India has witnessed an exponential increase in the demand for digital storage, from 1 petabyte in 2001 to more than 34 petabytes by 2007. Thereby capacity requirement of existing datacenters also continue to grow at a compounded rate of 25-30%.

Datacenter growth is driven by increasing requirements from the sectors such as financial institutions, telecom operators, manufacturing and services. While large financial institutions and telecom companies are likely to build captive Datacenters for hosting their growing data storage needs, Datacenter service providers are expected to invest significantly to multiply their capacities, so as to fulfill the demand arising from small and midsize users.

Datacenter is highly energy intensive. With the increasing energy cost, the increase in operational cost is inevitable. Therefore it becomes necessary to reduce the energy consumption to offset the increasing operational cost and to maintain competitiveness. Hence the Datacenters in India need to incorporate innovative designs for energy efficiency and embrace the concept of “Green IT” for sustained growth.

CII under the guidance of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and the support of major stakeholders has developed a manual on “Energy efficiency guidelines and best practices in Indian Datacenter”. The report consists of the Best Practices and case studies with high replication potential for Energy Efficiency in Datacenter.

Against this background CII organised a national level conference on Green datacenters. The manual is to be released during the conference scheduled on 22 June 2010 at The Lalit Ashok, Bangalore