 "IBM Unveils Project Big Green 2.0 In India")
IBM has announced the launch of the second phase of Project Big Green (PBG 2.0) in India. As part of PBG 2.0, IBM will introduce new products and services in the country to help enterprises build ‘greener’ technology infrastructures that can meet growing business requirements while realising rapid financial benefits from such investments.
IBM had introduced offerings like Scalable Modular Data Centre (SMDC) in the Indian market last year with the launch of Project Big Green. With PBG 2.0, IBM is looking to further build up on the success that it has created with SMDCs and help clients make their IT greener.
To help clients address data centre ‘power and cooling’ challenges, IBM has lined up a range of modular, energy-efficient data centre designs for the Indian market. The Portable Modular Data Centre (PMDC) will provide a fully-functional data centre in a pod-like form with a complete physical infrastructure including power and cooling systems and remote monitoring. The PMDC can be shipped and deployed into any environment and can support multiple technology vendors. The Enterprise Modular Data Centre (EMDC) is an enterprise class data centre ‘shrink-wrapped’ and standardised from 5,000 square feet up to 20,000 square feet. By building in smaller, standardised modules, clients can scale the starting data centre capacity by up to 12 times while matching their capital and operational costs to their IT needs over time. The High Density Zone (HDZ) is a modular system that provides incremental cooling and power capability in existing data centres that are tapped out of capacity. The HDZ system can be swapped into an existing data centre without disrupting current operations and can provide up to 35 percent cost savings compared to retrofitting an existing data centre.
“As Indian organisations eye high growth in their business, they want to be more conscious and efficient in the manner they consume and pay for energy,” said Steve Sams, vice-president, Global Site and Facilities Services, IBM Corporation. “With the launch of the second phase of Project Big Green, clients in India will have access to some of the most advanced green technologies and services for their data centres.”
Having built and managed nearly 300,000 sq ft of data centre space in the country already, IBM is confident of further increasing its marketshare with the launch of these new and innovative datacentre solutions.
New Products and Services for the Green Data Centre
IBM has announced a range of new products and services that would be made available to Indian customers for helping them make their data centres green. These include:
• IBM Server Optimisation and Integration Services for VMware server virtualisation
• IBM Storage Optimisation and Integration Services for process excellence
• IBM Server Consolidation Efficiency Study (SCON ES)
• IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 4.3
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring and enhancements to IBM Maximo Asset Management, Maximi Spatial and IBM Active Energy Manager