A: According to IDC, the total data centre capacity in India is expected to reach 5.1 million square feet by 2012, representing 31 % growth from 2007 to 2012. In the long run, India has the potential to become a hub for data centres for the Middle East, East Africa and Southeast Asia.

A: The ‘2010 State of the Data Centre’ report is based on inputs from 1,780 data centre managers in 26 countries out of which around 30% of the respondents were from the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region and mainly from the BFSI/IT/ITES and Telecom verticals. This study will help the CIOs to find out the data centres challenges and also our recommendation will help them reduce those challenges and create benchmarks against industry standards.

A: For the first time since the report was intro-duced in 2006, Symantec found that mid-sized enterprises, rather than large or small ones, are vanguards of the data centre, lead-ing in new technology adoption, data centre change, and focus on staffing. In fact, the main drivers to data centre aggressiveness are resources and willingness to take risks.

A: This year’s report noted that the most important initiatives for 2010 are security, backup and recovery, and continuous data protection. Also, 72% of enterprises in India believe that private cloud is set to grow and 30% of the enterprises consider server virtualisation will help to improve DR preparedness.

A: They should integrate data protection by providing data availability and manageabil-ity and deploy de-duplication closer to the information source to eliminate redundant data and reduce storage and network costs.