Newsletter September 2017

Puneesh Lamba ,
Vice President & Group CIO at CK Birla Group
“Puneesh Lamba is the Vice President and Group CIO at CK Birla Group. Delhi based, Lamba is an engineer with professional education from Harvard as well as IIM Ahmedabad.”
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IoT and hyperlocalisation of data centers

Is your data center ready for the explosion of data? Today, more than ever, data is being created on a massive level as a huge wave of connectivity dominates both home and office through a multitude of devices like wearables, smart homes, connected cars, medical devices, fitness bands, smart retail etc. Gartner predicts that the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices will reach 26 billion by 2020.
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Facebook boasts green data centre in Luleå, Sweden

Euronews Knowledge Huge amounts of data are being generated by Facebook users around the world, at a rate that doubles every 18 months. The Luleå centre is a part of the global infrastructure connecting 1.3 billion users. Guardian photojournalist David Levene went to the Arctic circle to take a tour of the pioneering facility.
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Cloud Computing, the Most Disruptive IT Force, Fuels Data Center Boom in India and South- East Asia

Businessworld Apart from the other benefits, data centers will help in the employment of trained people from other segments such as Big Data and Analytics, Software, telecommunications, network design, and business development.
  • Pi Data Centre sets up southeast Asia’s largest software defined data center in Andhra Pradesh at a cost of Rs 600 crore
  • NTT Com seeks to invest $160 million in India for setting up two data centers by April 2018
  • State-owned ITI Limited is planning to expand operations by building a tier-III plus data center in Bangalore and Naini; will invest Rs 200 crore in first phase
  • Dell EMC launches 14 generation PowerEdge server portfolio in India, which offers customers features like scalable business architecture, intelligent automation and integrated security
(Source: The Times of India, First Post, ETCIO.com, Deccan Herald)
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Mostly enterprises store millions of duplicated data objects in enterprise disk volumes. As these objects are modified, distributed, backed up, and archived, the duplicate data objects are stored repeatedly. Data center managers can adopt simple approaches like deduplication, cloning and thin provisioning to eliminate unwanted data.
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IDC has observed increasing investment in smarter datacenter solutions as organizations strive to support digital transformation initiatives that require much greater agility in datacenter resources. The ability to support new workloads quickly and where they are needed with a high degree of security and remote visibility and control is becoming a competitive differentiator.

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