Service providers market key benefits of cloud and data centers such as agility but companies are still focused on basics such as performance and availability, leading to a "disconnect" between both groups.
The country's average power usage effectiveness (PUE) for datacenters is relatively high, not helped by the presence of older facilities and its hotter weather conditions, according to Schneider Electric.
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Companies looking to bypass Internet traffic networks are turning to datacenter colocation service providers to help mitigate interconnectivity issues in China, spurring growth in this market sub-section.
Technical challenges abound such as potential flooding, and the availability of more cost-effective alternatives such as on ships or vacant office spaces in remote areas.
Data center managers are now looking for IT staff who possess different skills such as Linux, security and app development, as the landscape evolves with the introduction of virtualization.
Government plans to build data centers in subterranean caverns a bid to find new space, but finding suitable sites may be difficult and construction may have an environmental impact on water tables.
Fourth data center located in Tokyo's business district, to be launched in two phases will provide a capacity of 750 cabinet equivalents, to cope with rising demand of its data center services in country.
Building that houses data center of India's Unique ID Project (UID) catches fire, but government says little data stored inside and backups available at several locations across country.