CIOIN

 The CII (Consortium of Indian Industry) has formed a consortium of industry leaders, consultants and other specialists to discuss issues related to the management of power consumption in datacenters.

 The initiative, titled the Green Datacenter, works with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). Based on the recommendations of the CII, the BEE had issued guidelines covering five major areas – Electrical, Cooling, Operations and Maintenance, Information Technology and Infrastructure Management.
"The guidelines issued have to be measurable and implementable. We have to put up a matrix relevant to customers and users in India”, says Sandeep Nair, MD, Emerson Network Power in India and Chairman of CII’s Green Datacenter Consortium. “The basic measuring idea is very simple. It is a ratio of input to output. The output data divided by the input data divided by the power consumed helps us study and implement measures”, adds Nair.

 Business leaders from the industry, passive infrastructure vendors and CIOs debate and submit recommendations to the BEE. The idea is to get studies done, get a different set of people to work on the platform and submit results to BEE. The outcome is intended to be a framework that helps users determine how to go towards more efficient processes.

 The businesses that participate do expect a return on investment. Nair says that the objective of the Green Datacenter remains total cost. Without any compromise on business processes, there has to be return on investment because operational costs in India are very high.