Should datacenters be virtualized?
Friday, 19 February 2010, 18:11 IST
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Should datacenters be virtualized?
Bangalore: E-governance in India is aimed at giving quick and easy access to government services, and datacenters are considered to be the backbone for e-enabled services, reports Express Computer. Ajay Ahuja, General Manager (Systems Engineering) Sun Microsystems spoke on the infrastructure needed for setting up next generation datacenters. The total data centre capacity in India is expected to reach 5.1 million square feet by 2012 and is projected to grow 31 percent from 2007 to 2012, according toGartner. The Indian government is planning to create at least one datacenter for each of the states through NeGP (SWAN, CSCs and SDCs). According to Express computers, the IT drivers for datacenters are infrastructure virtualization, desktop virtualization, open source, open storage, Web 2.0 sharing and green IT. As per IDC, 'The cost of operating power for servers is set to surpass the cost of buying them in the next five years'. While designing a datacenter one should keep various things in mind such as the fact that the it should be scalable, it should have a modular architecture, modular right-sized power and cooling, should be simple, have flexible cabling and plumbing with real-time energy monitoring, able to scale, be easy to build and expand. "It is time to go for a virtualized data center. We should virtualize the data center into a modular, self-contained unit to radically improve time to deployment; increase flexibility and mobility; and enable higher-density and more efficient computing," said Ahuja.

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