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Malavika sacchdeva
Malavika sacchdeva
malavikas@cybermedia.co.in
malavikas@cybermedia.co.in

—PRASAnnA SARAMbAlE
—PRASAnnA SARAMbAlE
CEO, Data Center business
CEO, Data Center business
and Head, Group BD,
and Head, Group BD,
Sterling and Wilson
Sterling and Wilson

COMpAnIES ARE LOOkInG TO InvEST In SOLUTIOnS
THAT ARE ABLE TO REDUCE DATA CEnTER

COMpLExITY AnD COSTS: STERLInG AnD wILSOn

In conversation with Dataquest, Prasanna Sarambale, CEO – Data Center business and Head – Group
BD, Sterling and Wilson, talks about the evolution of data centers, the potential for the data center
industry in the country and the company’s play in the data center market. Excerpts:

ow do you see the evolution of datacenters racks with power densities of 4 KW per rack were used,
to what it is today- how has it changed the IT which has now increased to 14-18 kw per rack.
infrastructure market? Due to the high density racks, need for localized cool-
H The evolution in physical infrastructure require- ing (in-row / in-rack) has increased compared to the con-
ments and deployment have been in-line with the evolu- ventional peripheral cooling.
tion of IT equipment. Today, Uptime Institute and TIA- 942 Customers are scouting for micro-level power, cooling
are global standards being followed for Data center De- and space monitoring through softwares like DCIM.
sign, Build & Operation and maintenance. Taking into consideration the increasing power demand
Due to introduction of cloud servers and virtualization, of servers, the future of data centers seems to be
the number of servers have reduced in data centers. How- localized liquid based direct cooling, where the servers
ever, computing power as well as the power consumed shall be directly dipped into the thermally conductive
by these servers has increased manifold. Few years ago, dielectric liquid.

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