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'India fares poor in Energy Management'
By Jaya Kishore B
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Friday, 18 July 2008, 17:11 IST
Bangalore: "Though it is possible to use the energy efficiently without sacrificing safety and comfort, India fares poor in the energy management," said Sunil Sood, President, Indian Association of Energy Management Professionals (IAEMP), during a panel discussion in Datacenter 2008 Conference organized by Trade Fairs and Conferences International here on Thursday.
Due to lack of stringent policies in the country, the energy is used according to the whims and fancies of the users, which has lead to erratic use of precious energy across the industries leading to energy crunch in the country. Now the time has come to think on technologies that can be adopted to use energy efficiently, Sood said.
As organizations in the sectors like IT, BFSI and Health Care, are increasingly spreading their global footprint, the energy need to run their data centers and other operations is also growing. Today, according to a recent study, the percentage of energy used to cool the data centers has been soared to 60 percent, where as the energy need to run the data center is only 35 percent of the total energy supplied, noted Sood. Data centers with combined cooling facility will be the remarkable step towards a achieving the goal of Green Data centers, added Sood.
Sandeep Ghildiyal, Practice Head, Platform Consulting, Wipro said that by the end of 2008, more than 50 percent of data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capability to meet demands of high density equipment, quoting a recent Gartner report.
He also quoted a study by Uptime Institute, where about 42 percent of respondents (Data center mangers) to the study have opined that they will be out of power within next 1-2 years. The concepts like Virtualization are the only key driver to save organizations' energy spending in the future, he ascertained.
Tidbit: During the inaugural Panel, a question thrown by mid-level software professional from Wipro embarrassed the panelists as well as the organizers a bit. His bold question was that, "How green is this conference," pointing towards the glowing Beamers in the stage backdrop and presentation Laptop, which has been switched on all through the one hour-long discussion without any use. However, moderator Lalit Sawhney said, "It's better to not to answer this question, which itself might give you the answer."
