Today the heartbeat of any telecom service provider is in its data center. As
telcos are rapidly expanding operations, data centers have become more strategic
for them than ever before, for improving productivity, enhancing business
processes, and accelerating change.
However, challenges for telcos are unlimited when it comes to managing their
data centers. The number of wireless subscribers has touched 456.74 mn by the
end of August 2009, and still counting. As a result, data centers are the
strategic focus of telcos' efforts to protect, optimize and grow business.
VOICE&DATA, in its continues effort to address the issues of telecom industry,
organized a two-day event, titled 'Data Center-Telcos' New Lifeline' in Goa on
September 4 and 5, 2009. The event was attended by the CIOs and CTOs of leading
telecom service providers of the country.
The aim of the event was to the make the participants understand the need for
architecture based data center design, deploying and migrating data center by
implementing technologies like virtualization, storage management, etc. The
two-day event addressed various questions looming large in front of CIOs and
CTOs, such as how can data centers keep pace with the growth of customers and
partners in the midst of technology advancements and deployment, and how to
enhance business by deploying data centers and create new revenue streams.
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| The roundtable discussion on 'Building
Next Generation Data Centers for Service Providers' |
The participants were also told about how data centers could be useful for a
telco to expand its reach to greenfield operators and other service providers.
Role of technologies like-structured cabling, networking, power management,
storage, and application management software-in effective functioning of data
center were discussed. International trends in data center deployment were also
discussed in the event.
The keynote address was delivered by PJ Nath, president, Sify Technologies.
The discussions mainly revolved around building next generation data centers for
service providers. All participants agreed that IT operations are today a
crucial aspect of most telecom operations. One of the main concerns is business
continuity, as companies rely on their information systems to run their
operations.
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Sanjay Lulla, technology solution, EMC India and
SAARC giving a presentation |
P J Nath, president, Sify Technologies delivering the
keynote address |
Deepak Puri, VMware India addressing the audience |
Pankaj Advani, solution architect, VMware India
giving presentation |
Later in the day, Duncan Nursey, regional director, communications, Datacraft
Asia spoke on 'Global Service Provider: Trends and Opportunities', while Sanjay
Lulla, director, technology solution, EMC India and SAARC gave a presentation.
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Wayne Cullen, senior manager, SP marketing, Cisco System
giving presentation |
Special address by Manoj Chugh, president, EMC, India and
SAARC |
Roundtable discussion with Cisco and Datacraft on 'Building the economic data
center for service delivery' was a key highlight of the second day. Karthik
Ramarao, principal consultant, Datacraft India and James Young, technical
director APAC, CommScope expressed their views on best practices for building
and managing a data center and future proofing of networks, respectively.
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Roundtable discussion on, 'Virtualization and Cloud
Computing' |
Roundtable discussion with Cisco and Datacraft on,
'Building the Economic Data Center for Service Delivery' |
Pankaj Advani, solution architect, VMware India gave a presentation. The day
concluded with special lecture of Manoj Chugh, president, EMC India and SAARC.
Though data centers play a leading role in the business of telcos and their
IT heads are ready to look at newer technologies, Indian service providers need
more awareness about cloud computing, cost-effective ways to set up data
centers.
Akhilesh Shukla
akhileshs@cybermedia.co.in
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