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efficiency, sustainability, and connectivity. It leverages Our moral obligation is to ensure Schneider plays a role
advancements in IoT, mobility, sensing, cloud, analytics as a leader to bridge this gap. We are one of the only com-
and cyber security to deliver Innovation at Every Level. pany with the portfolio to play this role. With this philoso-
This includes Connected Products, Edge Control, and phy, we think the biggest opportunity for the industry has
Apps, Analytics & Services. EcoStruxure for Data Center to do with utilizing the vast quantities of data enabled by
and Networks offer Solutions and services for data centers IoT combined with Big Data analytics as a catalyst for the
to ensure IT systems are highly available and efficient. next wave of innovation. With the emerging technologies
we are introducing, we can go beyond just instrument-
What are the key verticals that you believe can yield ing a data center and providing data to the data center
great returns for the company? operator. We can now consolidate millions of data points
Schneider electric’s IT Division offers span across different every minute from multiple data centers and use sophis-
technologies, environments and segments, both in the IT ticated data mining tools to spot trends. Not just in one
application area and Industrial application areas. These data center, but in the hybrid ecosystem as whole.
environments span from Home and Business networks,
Server room/IT room, Edge computing, Datacentres, Why data Centers and Networks are a high potential
Industries with critical process automation application market for Schneider in India and how can it play a
areas, for example healthcare, Semiconductor, Oil and major role in supporting the IT industry.
Gas, Food and beverages, Smart Buildings and Smart Increasing reliance on data by organisations, emphasis
cities too. The next wave of data center improvement on optimization of business processes and Digital India
will be driven by the need for connectivity and using initiative of the Government are anticipated to increase
technology to enable our customers to effectively manage demand for data centers and networks in India. Added
inherently complex environments. to that, is the rise in data usage due to smartphones,
While in the past we focused on improving the manage- social networking platforms, e-commerce platforms, and
ment of one facility, the emerging ecosystem of hybrid government projects.
cloud computing has shifted the management of your India’s co-location and hosting market will generate
infrastructure into an exercise of managing multiple facili- almost $2 bn in annual revenue by 2019, up from just
$1.3 bn in 2016, with most of the growth focused
We think the biggest opportunity on the metropolitan centers of Mumbai, Chennai,
New Delhi and Bangalore. As per 451 Research,
for the industry has to do with 84% of the country’s data center supply is pres-

utilizing the vast quantities of data ently concentrated across its five largest markets:
Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Pune.
enabled by IoT combined with Big Also, almost a third of all existing white space in the
Data analytics as a catalyst for the country is located in Mumbai, due to its status as
a major financial hub, its population of 21 mn and
next wave of innovation coastal location, in close proximity to submarine ca-
ble landing stations. The report estimates a strong
growth for the Indian public cloud market, which is
ties with virtualized environments. Hence, we are moving expected to increase by a quarter every year through to
beyond just providing the software tools and architec- 2021, reaching $1.02 bn in annual revenue. This is where
tures, but are embarking on what we believe is a new in- Schneider Electric has a key role to play and can help in
tegrated system between IT and OT. This will include the sustaining growth of data centers through its critical pow-
underlying digitalised services to simplify the ecosystem er solutions. By implementing integrated energy manage-
and ensure the industry is being responsible with its use ment solutions, one can potentially save up to 30% of the
of energy. power requirement of data centers. Schneider Electric’s
A consumers’ appetite for information is insatiable and solution – EcoStruxure for Data Center and Networks en-
exponential, yet our resources are limited and precious. sures that IT systems are highly available and efficient.

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