Indian businesses moving towards digitisation despite power supply problems

15:30 24th November 2008

The intermittent power supply in India is proving a headache for IT professionals attempting to turn business digital, reports The Hindu Business online.

Research company Gartner has conducted a study showing increased demand for data capacity has rocketed from one petabyte in 2001 to 34 petabytes by 2007.

Implementing green IT solutions that encourage the digitisation of data is one answer, but is dependant on establishing reliable power supply.

Nareshchandra Singh, principal research analyst at Gartner, told the website: "[India] faces a few major obstacles in the development of data centres and these include security concerns and data retention worries. The biggest challenge is the lack of energy supplies in the country."

He added that business centres such as Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi experience unpredictable power blackouts which can undermine the security and accuracy of IT archive systems.

Gartner was set up in 1979 in Stamford in the US and provides research services for over 60,000 customers in 80 different countries across the world.