Data Centres are facilities that house computer systems and store data -
are of two types captive (firms setting up centres for their own use) and
third-party (outsourced).Data centres market in India is seeing a
good growth since past few years thanks to the explosion of data through
smartphones, social networking sites and ecommerce companies. Even Government
of India have initiated projects like Aadhar Card project by Unique Identification
Authority of India, digitization of Land records, citizen services, etc. are
also increasing the demand for data centres in India. In India market is dominated by third-party data centre
providers like Netmagic, Tulip Telecom, CtrlS and telecom firms Reliance, Tata
Communications and Sify that provide services to internet companies like Yahoo,
Ebay, Flipkart, Myntra, etc. According to Nasscom, India’s data centre market
was at about $2.2 billion in 2012 and is estimated to grow by more than 8% over
the next 3-4 years. The current data centre space available is India is about
3.7 million sq ft as of 2012-end and is estimated to rise to 6.3 million sq ft
by 2017, said Naresh Singh, Principal Research Analyst with Gartner, with
service providers leading majority of the growth. In terms of market size, it
is projected to grow to $3 billion (Rs 16,320 crore) from $2.2 billion (Rs
11,960 crore) in the same period. Data centre capacity is concentrated across
certain cities such as Bangalore, Mumbai New Delhi and Hyderabad. Gartner
valued the colocation and hosting market in India at US$609.1m in 2012 and by
2016 it will be worth $1.3bn.
The Date Centre Dynamics Intelligence Industry Census data collected in
2012 shows that investment in India’s data centre market was expected
to reach US$4.4bn in 2012, up from $4.1bn in 2011 (China investment for
2012 was expected to be $8.7bn and Brazil’s $5.5bn). In India, this represents
1.21m sq m of data centre space being built – up from 0.76m sq m in 2011, and a
power demand of 1.04 GW in 2012. A report by Frost & Sullivan which
predicted that by 2018 there will be almost nine million square feet of data centre
floor space — a three-fold increase from current levels. Most of the demand for
data centres in India is from IT and IT-enabled service firms, banking and
financial services sector, telecom companies, Internet service providers and
consumer goods firms. The Indian IT infrastructure market,
comprising of server, storage and networking equipment, will total $2.1 billion
in 2013, growing 9.7 percent compared to 2012, according to Gartner, Inc and
market is driven by hardware refresh, optimization and consolidation efforts
and new data centre build. But the industry is facing severe problems like unpredictable power supply which will lead to shutdown of
datacenters that costs in terms of money and data loss, unreliable internet
connectivity, limited bandwidth and unreliable optical fiber connectivity
between different parts of the country. Despite these problems the demand for data
centres in India is expected to grow because of the national e-governance
projects by Central and State government and prospective changes in regulations
by Reserve Bank of India planning to make it mandatory for data to reside
within the geographic boundaries of the country. Even Indian companies are
looking to increase the usage of Third Party Data centres as they also need to
store data that they are collecting during their business activities and use
such data for business decision making.
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