Technological growth of the organizations has helped them evolve with data centers that can multiply to cater for myriad needs. However, with diverse groups managing the computer rooms, organizations are faced with the challenges of managing the segmented approach, inordinate cost of floor space, maintaining cooling conditions as well as system management.

1. Data Center Transformations helping Organizations on the Green Path
Technological growth of the organizations has helped them evolve with data centers that can
multiply to cater for myriad needs. However, with diverse groups managing the computer rooms,
organizations are faced with the challenges of managing the segmented approach, inordinate cost of
floor space, maintaining cooling conditions as well as system management.
To cater to the demands for an energy efficient data center that can provide the hosting and
migration capabilities and seamlessly deliver to the global clientele, leading IT service providers have
worked data center transformation strategies. The green data center strategy designed developed by
them will not only be energy efficient but will also bring in the various services under the single
service delivery framework with a single point of operations for the customer. By focusing on the
core competencies, these leading service providers provides their customers with best of the breed
solutions. Besides, they also collaborate with the global leaders in various fields to provide for a
seamless end-to-end infrastructure services for integrated service delivery.
The green IT initiatives adopted by the enterprise will surely cover the technological dimensions,
facility and management. This will help enterprises and IT organizations reduce their
environmental impact by assessing, planning, and implementing initiatives around their datacenter
environment. The next-generation data centers thus designed and developed besides providing for
end-to-end data center services will also cater for Near-shore Co-Location Solutions, Business
Continuity Planning, Cloud Computing and Mainframe Management Services.
Data center transformation solutions by the leading service providers involve understanding the data
center technology, such as virtualization, power management and data center consolidation. Further,
they also work on the data center facilities by bringing about structural and non-structural changes.
The Audit and Gap Analysis helps to rebuild facility/assets to be energy efficient. Besides the experts
in the field provide consultancy to ensure right performance for legacy systems and use energy
efficient CPU models. As part of the non-structural changes, the enterprises make use of energy
efficiency metrics and also quantifies the primary energy and carbon emissions.
The service providers in their effort to ensure smooth transformation into a green datacenter are
compliant to the regulations, and manages the workload and optimizes the application performance
and energy used by the servers. The datacenter management services by the service providers
focuses on IT equipments along with their power and cooling requirements. By identifying

2. initiatives for energy efficiency these service providers leverage on their strong expertise in data
center transformation and help the customers achieve information security besides significant
energy and cost savings.
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