DATACENTRE SPECTRUM
How are the datacentre technologies evolving?
The datacentre scene is evolving very fast, with many diverse developments taking place. On one hand, India has built the largest datacentre in Asia and received the highest design certificate for it from the US. On the other hand, there are signs that investments in datacentres may be declining in India, while investments in cheaper, cloud-based data storage and management options are going up. Read on to find out about this melange of datacentre-related developments
India has achieved the distinction of building the largest datacentre in Asia and acquiring the highest certification of design from the US for it. Perhaps this should be added to the achievements of the much-hyped Make in India programme of the Indian government!
Largest Datacentre in Asia
Yotta Infrastructure - a Hiranandani Group company - has announced that their first datacentre - Yotta NM1 - located in their Panvel Datacentre Park - has been awarded the highest certification for datacentre design - the Uptime Institute Tier IV Certification of Design Documents Certification (TCDD). At 8.2 Lakh sq.ft, 7200 racks and 50 MW power, Yotta NM1 has achieved the rare distinction of being among the largest datacentres in the world and the largest in Asia, with this certification.
Dr. Niranjan Hiranandani, MD, Hiranandani Group, said, “Yotta’s vision is to deliver the best quality datacentre services to its customer and at the most reasonable costs. We made this possible via our group capabilities of real-estate ownership, execution acumen, power generation and distribution capabilities. The Uptime Institute Tier IV Certification of Design Documents award attests to our commitment to deliver state-of-theart IT infrastructure to the nation to further the Digital India mission.”
With this certification, Yotta NM1 datacentre’s design fulfils the Tier IV ‘Fault-Tolerant’ criteria, thereby assuring customers of the possibility of superior uptime and continued performance in the occurrence of a fault and its consequential impact. A fault tolerant datacentre facility and all the customer applications and workloads hosted there are capable of continuing to operate at full capacity despite a structural failure.
Sunil Gupta, Managing Partner & CEO, Yotta Infrastructure, said, “Uptime Institute’s Tier IV Certification of Design Documents is the equivalent to the Oscar Awards for the datacentre industry, and we are thrilled with this achievement! Since inception, we have committed to provide the highest quality of datacentre and associated tech services to our customers, and we are happy to deliver what we promised our customers at the onset. It was a gruelling process that took over ten