Banglore, India - Trade Fairs and Conference International (TFCI), a leading producer of premiere business & technology events organized a summit - 'DataCenter' 2008, India's largest conference focusing on the Green initiatives in Data Centers. The objective of this event was to provide a comprehensive agenda for those in the data center domains gain a deep insight on managing the technological and business aspects. Topics at the conference were built around the critical factors such as people,
technologies, processes, and data center facilities, value proposition of the business, and how to effectively manage the impending transitions.

Mr Kallol Hazra, Director, Consulting & Integration, HP in his session on Transforming the Datacenter said, "By 2010, more than half of all data centers will have to relocate to new facilities, more than 40% of data centers will be replaced within the next 10 years. He further added, "Over the next 5 years power failures and limits on power availability will halt data center operations at more than 90% of all companies."

Satnam Singh, Alliances Manager, Global DataCenter Management while discussing about the Quocirca (Business and IT advisory company ) findings on need for optimized datacenter assets, said, "25 per cent business units are managing to shrink - through consolidation, almost 50 per cent reported that server numbers are growing, average server utilisation is only 10 to 20 per cent, each server consumes space, on going maintenance and upgrades and daily cost of electricity - each server consumes a lot."

Focusing more on the need for Business Continuity Anand Naik, Director Systems Engineering-India and SAARC, Symantec Corporation, said "Increasing business requirements have made disaster recovery a top priority for organization. It is not just regulatory policies but the need for 24/7 business continuity that are driving its adoption."

Companies like, Hewlett-Packard, Tyco, Netapp, Microsoft, CtrlS Data Center, E M C, APW President, Delta Energy Systems, Symantec, etc participated in the event to discus the critical factors like people, technologies, processes, and data center facilities, value proposition of the business, and how to effectively manage the impending transitions.

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