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Driving sustainability for a green future

CtrlS Datacenters has been consciously investing and implementing design and operational approaches that make a material contribution to progress towards its ‘Net Zero’ carbon targets.

For CtrlS, embracing and implementing sustainability across our operations and keeping ‘Net Zero’ goal at the centre is essential. We are committed to be carbon neutral by 2030. And by then, the company will use 100 percent recycled water for all the company’s datacenters.

CtrlS gave birth to 200 innovations with over 80 focused on energy efficiency that reduce carbon footprint and dependency on fossil fuels by using solar energy, eliminating water & resource wastage, recycling e-waste, and creating a paperless office.

As a result of these constant innovations and efforts, CtrlS has one of the industry’s lowest power usage effectiveness ratio (PUE) of 1.35, operating in a hot country like India.

Tapping renewable energy
With 10 operational facilities across six cities and many upcoming, we have set a goal to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2030.

CtrlS is investing in 153 MWp solar projects across three different States of India (Maharashtra, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh) that will generate 2,50,000 MWh energy annually equivalent amount needed to power 50,000 Indian homes each year. This includes a 100 MW (145 MWp) solar project in Maharashtra that will be fully owned and operated by us.

By 2025, CtrlS plans to invest in additional 250 MW projects, as part of its Net Zero Strategy. No other datacenter operator in India is undertaking such ambitious initiatives.

We are the first datacenter operator in India to wrap the external facade of our Mumbai DC 2 with solar panels, instead of glass. The 1.3 MWp-Solar panel, generates over 1MW of electricity for captive purposes. The company will now construct its second solar-wrapped datacenter in Chennai in southern India.

Not only this, CtrlS has installed air filtration plants at Noida, near Delhi, to address the air pollution concerns faced in the National Capital Region-Delhi belt to safeguard the health of its employees. This marks India’s first air pollution-free datacenter ever.

Global green certifications
We are the first datacenter operator in the world, to have our Mumbai DC1, Noida DC1 and Hyderabad DC2 facilities to be LEED Platinum v4 O+M certified by the US Green Building Council, validating the company’s commitment to sustainable growth with healthy, highly efficient and cost-optimized green infrastructure.


Multi-pronged strategy
CtrlS aims to achieve its Net Zero goals through a multi-pronged strategy, not just limited to energy efficiency or renewable energy. The company is determined to achieve tangible and sustainable outcomes in the long-term with a clear roadmap.

As a socially responsible company, CtrlS strongly believes in handing over a safe, green, and better earth to the next generations and has embarked on a conscious and focused ‘Net Zero’ journey to make the planet earth a liveable place.

CtrlS ramping up capacity to meet customer demand

By the time you are halfway through reading this blog, close to 8 million search queries would have been generated on Google! That’s just one example of living in an always available, hyper-connected world.

While the exact number is not known, it is estimated that 120 zetabytes of data/information is created, captured, copied, and consumed each day. This data needs to be stored and computed, in a centralized place equipped with up to date computing and networking equipment to process and manage it. Datacenters also enable tasks such as collection, storage, indexing, tagging, distribution, and quick retrieval of mountains of data.

What is Driving Datacenter Demand?
Increasing adoption of technologies, such as cloud computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI), across industry verticals has resulted in the rising industry demand for high-quality datacenter infrastructure for storage and networking.

Currently, due to Internet of Things (IoT) and other emerging technologies, massive amount of data is being generated, which is driving the demand for datacenters everywhere.

Additionally, globalization, IT security, business continuity and disaster recovery considerations are also driving businesses to diversify their locations across multiple regions to minimize dependency and risk and improve operational efficiency.

With the ultimate goal of eliminating downtime and sharing data across regions, enterprises are actively deploying geographically dispersed datacenters.

Smartphones, connected technologies, IoT and other factors are demanding a robust datacenter ecosystem with a high speed of deployment, flexibility, scalability, security, consistency, reliability and availability. Digital transformation is directly impacting the development of innovative and efficient digital infrastructure that serves as highly agile, cost-effective, and software-defined infrastructure.

Transformation of current hardware-defined infrastructure to one that is software-defined is a key factor driving demand for hyperscale datacenters that is changing the way businesses function.

Major Trends
Valued at $187.35 billion back in 2020, the year when Covid broke out, the global datacenter market is projected to achieve a value of $517.17 billion in ten years, with a healthy CAGR of 10.5 per cent from 2021 to 2030.

Various nations and governments are actively working to build sustainable, ecologically responsible, energy-efficient, and cost-effective datacenters in order to handle the data surge in the future. Parallelly, strict environmental regulations focusing on energy conservation are being introduced that is going to give rise for enormous demand for green and sustainable datacenters.

India is at the cusp of a great IT evolution, where datacenters will play a crucial role, keeping data at the centre. The stage is well set for both Indian as well as foreign companies to invest over Rs 1.5 trillion in the next six years backed by their plans to expanding datacenter capacities in the country, marking a six-fold growth.

India’s total datacenter capacity is currently pegged at 870 MW, powered by 138 facilities. It is estimated that the country could add another 4,900-5,000 MW of in the next six years.

Providing infrastructure status to datacenters, roll-out of special incentives from Central and State governments such as land at subsidized costs, power subsidies, exemptions on stamp duty, and discounts on the usage of renewable energy through industry-centric policies are set to result in a datacenter boom in India.

The country’s datacenter industry’s revenues are expected to grow at a CAGR of 17-19 percent between FY23 and FY25, backed by an increase in capacity utilization and ramp-up of new locations.

CtrlS’ Expansion Strategy 
In response to the growing demand for datacenter services, CtrlS Datacenters has drawn out an aggressive, multi-pronged expansion strategy that will keep the company ahead of competition.

The company has a well chalked out plan to expand its hyperscale and edge datacenters in India. The company will expand its footprint from its existing 10 facilities (eight hyperscale and two edge) to 25 in the coming years. That’s adding an additional 5 million sq ft of space to its existing 1.2 million sq ft.

This includes a 2 million sq ft Hyperscale Datacenter Park in Navi Mumbai, another 2 million sq ft Hyperscale Datacenter Park in Hyderabad and a 1 million square feet DC campus in Chennai. These upcoming projects will together add up to 600 MW capacity. On the Edge front, the company currently operates facilities in Lucknow and Patna and will set up over 20 Edge datacenters across Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities of India, with each facility having up to 5 MW of capacity. Edge datacenters assure agility and reliability of operations, which have become inevitable needs of businesses today.

Expanding its presence beyond India, CtrlS is also planning to foray into several potential markets in Southeast Asia and the Middle East to build a connected future that will benefit enterprise customers and hyperscalers.

The company is exploring market opportunities in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Bangladesh and other locations to help its technology customers expand with ease, create mutual synergies and enhance operational efficiencies. The overseas datacenters may have capacities in the range of 10 MW-50 MW. With an all-round expansion strategy, CtrlS Datacenters is set to cater to datacenter, colocation, managed services, cloud and network needs of hyperscalers, enterprises, medium size companies and startups across BFSI, Telecom, Healthcare, Pharma, E-commerce, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing and other industries, enabling them in their digital transformation journey.

CtrlS Expands Executive Leadership with the Announcement of Ashish Ahuja as Chief Technology Officer

Google veteran to drive CtrlS Datacenters’’ edge, network strategy and new product intiatvies

Hyderabad, November 9, 2022: CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, Asia’s Largest Rated 4 Hyperscale Datacenter provider, has appointed Ashish Ahuja as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Prior to CtrlS, Ahuja served as Director-Global Network Infrastructure at Google and has also held leadership roles at France Telecom and Tata Communications. Being one of the pioneers of Google’s ‘Global Network Infrastructure’ group, he holds the credentials of leading various global / regional strategic initiatives & partnerships to build a state-of-the-art network across various continents.

He is an industry veteran and a subject matter expert in Networks, Interconnect, Datacenters, Undersea Cable Systems and IaaS with deep understanding of global markets.

His professional career reflects a demonstrated track record in various functional areas, including digital infrastructure investments, product management & strategy, acquisitions, partnerships and sales.

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder & CEO, CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, said, “As CTO for CtrlS datacenters, Ashish Ahuja will drive our global expansion plans, edge & network strategy and new product development initiatives.”

Royce Thomas, President & Chief Business Officer, said, “CtrlS is on the cusp of a new growth phase and the CTO’s appointment will accelerate the momentum further.”

On this announcement, Ashish Ahuja said, I am very excited to join the CtrlS family, when the company is drawing aggressive global expansion plans. I am looking forward to collaborating with our industry partners and CtrlS team to add momentum in this digital transformation journey.”

About CtrlS
CtrlS operates over one million square feet of datacenter space spread across eight datacenters located in Mumbai, Noida, Bangalore and Hyderabad. The company is building a solar park in Mumbai to power its datacenter facilities and eliminate carbon footprint.

The company is in the process of expanding its footprint by an additional 5 million square feet. The company’s 2 million square feet Hyperscale Datacenter Park in Navi Mumbai is under construction, while another 2 million square feet Hyperscale Datacenter Park in Hyderabad is ready for construction. The company has also planned a 1 million square feet facility in Chennai. There are plans to roll-out new DCs in many global markets as well as roll out various edge datacenters across tier-2 and tier-3 cities across India in a phased manner.

6 Data Center Colocation Trends to Watch in 2021

About Data Center Colocation
A colocation data center is additionally referred to as “colo”, is a type of large data center facility provided by companies that offer a shared, secure area for enterprise businesses to store hardware related to data storage and other equipment. Colocation facilities offer infrastructure, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking equipment of other organizations. The space at this facility is either leased or rented by the room, cage, rack, or cabinet colo services depending on the requirement of the client. It is a common facility where companies share the resources provided by the data center.

All this sharing comes with significant cost reductions bundled with perks like redundancy/ reduced downtime, higher security, flexibility, scalability, and 24/7 IT Support. It can also be a step towards cloud migration. Switching towards colocation means more focus on revenue projects and overall improvements instead of managing an on-site data center. Data center colocation could be the right choice for any business of any size, in any industry.

This industry has seen tremendous growth in the past decade. In 2020, despite the demands of social distancing and the work-from-home model, this sector still performed well and should continue this year. Infiniti Research published that “the global data center market is projected to grow 18% annually to exceed $270 billion through 2024.”

So what can we expect in 2021? We’ve identified the top 6 trends that will shape the colocation business this year.

Top Trends to Dominate in 2021

  1. Market Growth: COVID-19 pandemic and the associated work-from-home economy has accelerated digital transformation, resilience, and edge strategies for service providers. This in turn has boosted demand for IT services in which colocation serves as a major pillar. As we move into 2021, many industries and individual companies are looking to downsize their commercial real estate and facilitate remote work. They are transitioning into cloud-based frameworks. They have already started to turn to colocation as a flexible option.
  2. Interest In Remote Offerings: The continuing COVID-19 pandemic has put restrictions on travel. This means that enterprise customers can’t always rely on their staff to manage the necessary operation at data centers. The interest of industries will be more towards the colocation companies that offer remote help when their personnel is unavailable to visit the site.
  3. Remote workforce Security: Due to the work-from-home culture, businesses have quickly deployed approaches such as VPN tunneling to ensure secured access to applications for employees working from home. These organizations will look forward to colocation services for more robust security. A colocation facility with a VPN or IP routing, equipped with managed firewalls, which in turn can control access to websites and cloud-based applications will be looked forward to in 2021.
  4. Evolution Of Edge Computing: Edge computing will go mainstream in 2021. The global rise in data use, the continued push towards innovative technologies, the growth of 5G networks, and a long-term remote workforce will all drive increased demand for edge computing. Colocation facilities need to weigh these effects on colo use cases, technology, and investment strategies.
  5. AI Demands On Infrastructure: AI compute as a service will significantly affect colocation data center services. Automation and robotics will play a key role in facility management. This can include the use of robots to install servers in racks, swap out failed servers, manage disk storage and interconnection, and site security. This is due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which demands less reliance on human resources.
  6. Focus On Environmental Impact: One major trend of colocation facilities will be how the service providers will make more energy-efficient solutions and commitments to address both customers and regulatory requirements. Innovation around on-site renewable energy generation for power will be at pace this year. Colocation centers need to minimize their impact on the environment and move towards sustainable practices for energy consumption.

Conclusion:
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the colocation landscape for many organizations with a continuous emphasis on securing business continuity with its IT systems. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), 80% of businesses will boost their cloud and IT infrastructure at twice the current speed by the end of 2021.The expected result is that the colocation data centers are set for vigorous growth in 2021.

Top 10 Reasons Why Companies Choose Colocation Hosting

About Colocation Hosting
Colocation hosting and dedicated hosting are similar terms with one notable exception. In dedicated hosting, customers rent servers as well as the infrastructure needed to support them. While, in colocation hosting, companies own their hardware, but are looking to supplement its functionality by renting/ leasing server space in this facility which provides benefits like improved internet bandwidth, server cooling systems, and reliable power. For a colocation hosting arrangement, the customer must have their physical server. They physically transport the server to the colocation hosting facility i.e. a data center that provides these services. The customer only rents/ leases the space within the site but maintains ownership and full control of all hardware and software settings of their server. By regular communication with the hosting facility, the customer can quickly upgrade or downgrade various features like RackSpace, bandwidth, etc. to fit the business needs.

10 Reasons Why Companies Choose Colocation Hosting
When the volume of business data outgrows its infrastructure limitations, it becomes important to establish an expansion strategy. Colocation offers them the benefits of having and controlling their servers, storage, and network so that they can manage costs and tune performance. Here are the top 10 reasons why companies choose colocation hosting-

  1. Security: Colocation facilities are designed to ensure that your systems are protected from all risk factors such as fires, burglars, and other things that may compromise the security of your information.
  2. Reliability: These infrastructures have redundant cooling and power, communication systems that ensure constant connection and strict access control, therefore are proved to be reliable.
  3. Accountability and access control: These state of art facilities guarantee service level agreement (SLA) for the uptime of your system, which helps you access the risk.
  4. Cost Savings: Colocation facilities ensure a clean room, redundant systems, and 24/7 monitoring ensuring your savings substantially as you need not spend on maintenance, power requirements, and additional cooling of your servers.
  5. Reduced Maintenance: High-level server support equipment is available at the colocation facilities. They also dedicated staff to make sure that systems are running at top performance. They monitor systems and service the equipment regularly, and also fortify immediate actions in case of failures.
  6. Freeing Up Space: An in-house data center requires a lot of space and putting all your servers in one room is not a sustainable solution. Colocation services free up your valuable spaces and provide the agility and robustness that your business needs for future.
  7. Scalability: Colocation hosting allows you the flexibility to scale up or scale down easily, while you pay only for space and power you need and only when you need it.
  8. Performance: Electronic equipment performs best in a constant cool and dust-free environment. This is ensured at a colocation facility which enhances the overall performance of your systems.
  9. Speed: These facilities offer cost-effective fast connections directly to multiple internet service providers to provide top performance in events of overload or interruption in connections.
  10. Competence: Colocation centers have on-site staff who have major experience in the field of technology. This offloads your IT staff as the maintenance and implementation of your servers is taken care of remotely by the remote smart hands.

Future Prospect
Colocation providers are not just physical space providers but also strategic partners that can help an enterprise fulfill its infrastructure needs. The data center market is highly driven by the cloud. As more companies move their infrastructure to the cloud, they are looking to have their hardware live off-site as well and for that, they are moving towards colocation facilities. It’s good to say that these services are here to stay for the foreseeable future.

Conclusion:
The constant evolution of technology demands businesses to transform simultaneously. A company that is expanding ultimately needs a strategy for long-run to fulfill its growth purpose. The various factors such as costs, security, uptime, etc. play a major role while choosing such a strategy. Companies that choose colocation can deliver reliability and performance that meets their business goals and avoids costs associated with expanding in-house infrastructures. These benefits have proven that colocation hosting is definitely the strategy to remain future-ready.

How Hyperscale Data Centers are Shaping the Future of the IT Industry?

About Hyperscale Data Center:
A hyperscale data center is essentially the premise that provides space, power, and cooling for network infrastructure designed specifically for offering a portfolio of highly scalable applications and storage services to businesses. According to International Data Corporation, a hyperscale data center comprises more than 5000 servers with a space of at least 10000 square feet across the building.

Hyperscale data centers are specialized data centers designed and constructed with expansion in mind. They can scale up the provisions of computing, connectivity, networking, storage, and power requirements as per the needs of the customers.

Why Hyperscale Data Centers Are Preferred Over Other Data Centers?
The demand for cloud computing infrastructure and IoT functionality is increasing day-by-day. This has in turn increased the demand for data centers. It is a known fact that at least 1/3rd of all data passes through the cloud. Data centers are constantly evolving and adapting to the ever-growing demand for more information and more advanced technologies. A news article from the Economic Times stated that “By 2025, the hyperscale market is expected to reach around 25 billion in India.”

Reasons why companies prefer Hyperscale data center:

  1. Speed: Development, installation, and management of your shifting computing needs are quickly achievable with the help of hyperscale data centers.
  2. Scalability based on demand: Companies have peak times when the demand increases at an exponential rate. With Hyperscale data centers, companies can scale up when demand is high and scale down when demand is low. 
  3. Easier transition into the cloud: Some companies start with the migration of non-critical applications to the cloud and with time often add mission-critical software and data as well. Some may want to integrate their private cloud into the public cloud. Hyperscale data centers make this transition easy and help the companies grow into the cloud at their own pace. 
  4. Easier Management: In hyperscale data centers, fewer layers of control are needed. Hence, people needed to manage the various functional operations are also fewer making the management easy.
  5. Reduced Downtime Losses: These are designed to minimize downtime due to excessive demand or other complications. It helps IT systems get back online much more quickly.

The general demand for faster and more efficient data travel will always keep increasing. All companies look for profits, goodwill, and smooth business operations. A hyperscale data center is the most evolved data center which fulfills all the future requirements for a business to grow.

Hyperscale Data Center – The Future of IT Industry
Because of the pandemic, cloud adoption is happening at a much faster rate. Digital growth and acceleration are here to stay and grow. With the IT industry realizing the dynamism of what can be done with their data, they have started colocating to hyperscale data centers to aid better data management. These have become the top priority for businesses across the globe to handle their IT infrastructure requirements. Realizing the need for an efficient data center to reduce barriers for the customers, higher margins, data storage and management, higher security, and reliability, IT companies are moving towards hyperscale data centers. They have understood that the future for better growth opportunities comes with hyperscale data centers.

Conclusion:
Hyperscale data centers have moved beyond being just an additional storage facility. They have emerged as the most robust, reliable, and secured data center with an ability to scale up and scale down to meet the existing demand of an organization.

Environment, Health and Safety Event at CtrlS

Environment, Health and Safety Event at CtrlS

4 March 1966, the National Safety Council was established by the Ministry of Labour, Government of India (GOI) to sustain a voluntary movement on Health, Safety, And Environment (HSE) at the national level. It is an apex non-profit making, tripartite body that is registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860 and the Bombay Public Trust Act 1950.

CtrlS has always been a major contributor in innovating environment-friendly and energy-efficient processes at its datacenters. We have a firm grip hold to take care of the environment in every possible way along with keeping our workforce safe, who work relentlessly at our datacenters. We have an evolved Corporate Safety group divided into two teams- Project Safety and Operational Safety. These two teams work together with the leadership in building elaborate safety guidelines and stringent safety protocols. They ensure that the entire organization sticks to the specifications of the same.

Keeping the workplace safe and secure by taking appropriate safety measures is a task of great responsibility to reduce the rate of industrial accidents. In order to promote these practices at CtrlS, we hosted National Safety Week at all our DC sites- Mumbai, Hyderabad, Noida, and Bangalore. This year marked the 50th National Safety week, which was celebrated with all our workers, vendors, and other stakeholders. The celebration started on 4th March and lasted till 10th March.

Objectives of the Safety Week Celebration

  • To spread Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) movement to various parts of the country.
  • To ensure the participation of different industrial sectors at different levels.
  • To promote a participative approach for the employees in HSE activities.
  • To promote several developmental activities required for self-compliance and professional HSE management systems at workplaces.
  • To cover voluntary HSE movement sectors.
  • To motivate and remind employers, employees, and others of their responsibility in making the workplace safe.

The Theme Of The Year
Every year the National Safety Week is celebrated across the country with great enthusiasm and positivity. To make it further directional and focused, it is always honored with a theme. The theme for the year 2021 is “Learn From Disaster And Prepare For A Safer Future.”

Enduring this year’s theme, CtrlS aimed at developing awareness about social responsibilities amongst the workers to create a supportive and friendly environment. Therefore, the week was filled with a number of events that created awareness about the environment and health safety amongst the employees.

Event List:

  1. Flag – Hoisting
  2. Safety Oath/ Pledge
  3. Safety-March
  4. Quiz Competition
  5. Drawing Competition Exhibition
  6. Prize Distribution
  7. First Aid Training
  8. Medical camp
  9. Defensive Driving Awareness & Badge Pinning
  10. Safety Movies Shown To The Worker & Staff

All the employees passionately participated in the safety week events. The main motive behind these activities was to ensure that each and every person at CtrlS is well informed about what we are trying to achieve in terms of sustainability and safety of our environment and workers respectively. We believe that “we all share the responsibility for encouraging a safe work culture to improve behavior and performance in the workplace, and we all share accountability to encourage our peers to value safe work practices and safety programs in a positive, proactive way.” So, make a commitment today to take an active role in safety.

A 3 Minute Guide To Understand Data Centres And Why Your Business Needs One

A 3 Minute Guide To Understand Data Centres

Look at Industries globally and you’ll find that they too have caught the novel Coronavirus – or at least its financial impact, with an estimated contraction of 5.2% in global GDP in 2020 according to Global Economic Prospects. The most affected industries include IT Services, Manufacturing, Travel & Tourism, Financial Services, Mining, and Construction, with declining rates of up to 23% between April and June 2020. The pandemic, on the other hand, gave a huge boost to internet services and digital transformation worldwide with a significant part of the industries and companies that have started working and collaborating from home.

With such a condition a demand for data centers has gone up as technologies working remotely are playing a crucial role in keeping companies functional in this pandemic. The emergence of a new business environment in the wake of COVID-19 boosted the cloud services and digitization as companies modernize their digital infrastructure with an improved way of working.

But what is a Data Center? A data center is a physical space where organizations can store their hyper-distributed data, within a safe and secure facility with dedicated and reliable power, and network transmission. Currently, large enterprises process millions of bytes of information every day – both in the form of structured and unstructured data, and need a partner to securely host them. Many firms also prefer to shift cloud-based applications to data centers, minimizing the cost of running an in-house server and its maintenance.

To meet the constant demand for instant access, data centers are expected to run 24/7, which needs real-time monitoring of infrastructure, equipment upgrades, power distribution, air handling, and much more. Better infrastructure protection necessitates both the provision of security from internal threats and data breach. To stop this data leak, data centers are adopting increased security at the infrastructure layer that gives a more fine-grained approach, along with greater agility and adaptation. Lookout for reasons why companies should choose the hyperscale data center services:

  1. Higher Margins: Datacenter services allow enterprises to modify solutions to help them avail service efficiencies and scale costs. Datacenters provide companies with an optimum solution that requires fewer systems or less storage space for service users to achieve marginal growth.
  2. Data Storage and Management: Data Centers always push their horizons of tangible capacity to meet present and future requirements of Data Security and Availability. With new ways of data management companies can leverage cloud storage capabilities that help them to maximize resources and covering ways to improve them.
  3. Safety and Recovery: Quick disaster recovery in the shortest turnaround time plays a vital role in a data center environment. Along with the virtual security of the data, data center sketches a comprehensive plan on the infrastructure, potential threats, and asset for backup and recovery of your data.
  4. Data Space Management: Maintaining a physical server is a burden on budget and manpower. Utilizing an off-site data center gives tremendous flexibility, to add selective space as needed, allowing businesses to pay for only space and resources when they need it.
  5. Expert’s advice:It’s easier and agile when you let experts handle and monitor your company data. An expert at data center collect organizes and distributes your company data for agile and centralized data delivery and maintenance.

Considered a best-in-class hosting infrastructure and the first Rated 4 Datacenter in India, CtrlS chooses to take data center services an extra mile with:

  • Over 20,000 racks and 200MW of power spread across major Indian metro cities
  • World’s First LEED Platinum V4 O+M Certified that is planned for decades of operational sustainability at zero downtime for uninterrupted support to manage operations 24*7*365.
  • Solar based Hyperscale data centers for energy efficiency, reducing operational cost and carbon footprint
  • India’s only 100% Quake Proof setup for better disaster management.
  • Cloud hosting services, hyper-scale hosting, and auditing the datacenters as per established benchmarking.

The global Data Center Security market expects to scale at USD 20.19 million by 2023, at a CAGR of 14.70. Whereas Data Center Service market is expected to grow by USD 3.35 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 15%. Data centers, now and in upcoming years will continue to play a vital role in the ingestion, computation, managed storage, and management of information. Experience how CtrlS datacenters provide businesses utmost security without interruption of mission-critical infrastructure with optimized cost.

Four-point guide on why should you know your data center

Four-point guide on why should you know your data center

A document, an image and a video, everything is a form of data.

McKinsey’s report on data describes it as an asset beyond our imagination. Indeed. The humongous data that surrounds us are key to fuelling business growth.

More the data, more the concern and trust factors. Unfortunately, the current wfh scenario has made data more vulnerable to theft and cyberattacks than ever. The most critical asset can only be protected by a secure data centre. Yet, the growing demand for data centers poses a question.

You are entrusting your mission-critical systems and asset with an unknown service provider. How well do you know them? Or do you know your data center at all?

Let us help with the four-point guide.

1. Type of data centre
Data centers could be off or on-premise. Cloud data centres are off-premise locations where data is hosted on any of the public cloud or on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or IBM Cloud.

Enterprise data centers, Managed services data centers and colocation data centers are on-premise where data is stored in a physical location.

Enterprise data centers are owned by an enterprise and are built within the dedicated campuses. On the other hand, managed service data centers are managed by a third-party service provider which rent or lease the storage infrastructure from the owners. The fourth type is called Colocation data centers where infrastructure is shared by multiple parties. Hosting, security facilities, speed, and firewalls are shared between the occupants.

2. Physical location
The physical location of data centres is of utmost importance to data management and security.

The best services have facilities for in-country or local data centres where implementation becomes seamless. Single data centres are prone to risks. Security, bandwidth, speed and risk mitigation becomes critical in such an environment. Also, the intended customer experience cannot be yielded by single data centre solutions.

3. Infrastructure facility and certification
A data centre must adhere to standard ANSI/TIA-942 certification to ensure compliance and is vital in protecting the hosted systems.

Based on infrastructure complexity and redundancy, data centers are classified into four; tier1, tier2, tier3 and tier4.

The most basic of all is tier 1 which is designed for small businesses. With a single path of power and cooling and minimal or no redundant components, tier 1 has an uptime of 99.671%.

Tier 2 data center offers an uptime of 99. 741% with redundant components including USP systems and generators for cooling. Tier 3 is designed for enterprises which require high security and seamless end-user experience. 99.982% uptime and multiple distribution paths ensure seamless data access and management.

Tier 4 or the most secure infrastructure ensures total protection from data theft and mismanagement. It offers round the clock monitoring without disruption with 99.995% uptime.

4. Credibility & Expertise
If all the above points are convincing enough, credibility and expertise of the service provider must be the deciding factors for choosing a data centre.

How reliable is the service provider to protect and safeguard your data?. Do they have proven experience? How much have they delivered and how much have they helped their clients are needed to build trust.

CtrlS being India’s only Rated 4 data centre has always ensured to surpass client expectations. Our Hyperscale data centers assure uninterrupted power supply, 100% network availability, ISO 27001 and 20000-1 certified security policies, 99.995% uptime with scalability on-demand and faster completion.

Does your data center have the same to offer?
Get in touch. Our experts are ever ready to help you provide the best suitable data centre solution.

 

Datacenters In Global Pandemic – Defining New Strategy & Redefining Operations To Maintain Availability

Datacenters In Global Pandemic - Defining New Strategy & Redefining Operations To Maintain Availability

After months and multiple phases of lockdown, businesses across every geography are grappling with the new normal and re-opening of office space. Yet, a recent report by Bitglass points out that the majority of employees and leaders in the US and EU continue to root for work from home (about 84%). But are businesses ready with the secure access and infrastructure for remote working?

With the start of lockdown, IT has been trailblazing the world of collaboration, striving to make its entire breadth of services available for the remote workforce, spread around the globe. With the possible continuation of remote work for many, companies will continue establishing new practices and tools to upend the pre-existing IT infrastructure.

However, not everything can be “Remoted” – especially mission-critical facilities like Data Centers.
Besides the given factor of their non-transferrable infra support like power-grid access, security protocols, backups, etc., one has to consider the sheer volume of highly complex workloads managed by such facilities. But, given the surge in remote work, every byte of organizational data must be managed and secured, now more than ever before.

So, what are Datacenter Providers upto?

  • First priority, which by now has translated to an established SOP for most, has been to re-examine data center operation strategy from the purview of COVID-19.
  • The second and current priority is rebalancing Hyperscale data center services, ensuring uninterrupted access, and how the services continue to evolve as the pandemic progresses.

How CtrlS, India’s leading Rated4 Data Center provider is addressing these –

1 – COVID-19 data center operation strategy

Disruption in IT operations was the reality during the first wave of lockdown. Quick-action to maintain uptime and client business continuity, and parallel ensuring on-prem staff safety, was the need of the hour.

To ensure safety and maintain social distancing norms, about 67% of the CtrlS workforce was sent home for remote functioning, as 33% (those in charge of mission-critical IT assists) remained at the facilities, under rigorous safety protocols. Every entry-point hosted no-contact temperature scanning and isolation areas, with employees screened for body temperature and other symptoms.

Today, the same continues as SOP, with masks, gloves, and PPE suits provisioned for everyone working in datacenters. Teams are provided dedicated operational cabins for social distancing and announcements over PA systems for limited face-to-face interactions. Besides these, clear demarkations in public areas for social distancing and frequent sanitization are commonplace. CtrlS continues to collaborate with certified medical experts who conduct virtual training sessions for COVID-19 awareness – mandatory for every employee on the field.

Technology was another route to mitigate disruptions, with the use of AI-driven predictive analytics for better asset management and remote infrastructure-monitoring to automate fault resolutions.

2 – Rebalancing data center services

COVID-19 has forced the world and businesses to adapt fast, with people adjusting to new work paradigms. The outcome – spiking internet traffic and increasing data exchanges over applications. CtrlS has incorporated edge computing capacity in data centers to meet these shifting demands.

Instead of re-inventing the wheel, CtrlS has strengthened its existing infrastructure with better capacity management. This has been effected with efficient management of power, network bandwidth, etc. CtrlS has set up near-site solar plants for DC consumption, parallelly ensuring zero carbon emission and continuous power availability. Besides 100% uptime, this has eliminated any dependency on unreliable shared power grids, allowing to scale datacenter service. The result – a significant reduction in energy bill – saving costs for customers, and no-downtime, avoiding possible business risks in this already volatile business environment.

Summing it up…

With COVID-19, multiple social, economic, and business operation changes will be permanent. This is an indication that the next phase of managing and providing data center resources is about scaling mission-critical infrastructure to ensure client business continuity. Stakeholders at CtrlS are mapping this out, with planned expansions of DC space and Edge Datacenters – for the new normal post COVID era.