Green, Governance and Growth are the three quintessential features for a next generation data center; resulting in lower cost, better industry compliance and contribution to overall business growth. HCL and EMC have joined hands to provide G3 data centers in post recession era helping CIOs to transform their Data Centers.

1. G3
Data Centers
Green | Governance | Growth

2. DELIVER
MORE WITH LESS
The economic downturn changed the dynamics of the
business world. It shifted the measure of success, driving
companies to rethink how they deliver services. The
recession saw the chief information officers (CIOs) combat
with slashed budgets and issues such as availability of
finance, changing risk requirements, market adaptability,
re-orientation of business models, changing customer
demands, employee downsizing and galvanizing existing
ones to deliver more efficiently. The pressure is to deliver
more with less. With this mandate, there is a need to simplify
IT Infrastructure, reduce overhead costs and align IT with
emerging and frequently changing business needs.
CHANGING DYNAMICS OF
DATA CENTERS
Data center is the heart of IT Infrastructure and a
major portion of CIO’s IT budget goes in building,
managing and operating company’s data center(s).
With dynamic business requirement and rapid data
growth the role of an optimized data center is being
felt by CIOs. While CIOs are looking to optimize cost
by reducing complexity and enhancing data center
efficiency, there is a constant desire for business
growth in an industry governed and secured
environment. Adaptability, application availability
Changing and flexibility are the key parameters to judge the
current data center stage and build a comprehensive
Dynamics strategy for future.
of
Data Center

3. SIGNIFICANCE of
G3 DATA CENTERS
With a continuous pressure of doing more with less and
optimizing the data center environment to be more responsive,
consolidated and secured; CIOs need to strive for G3 data
centers. A G3 data center is aligned to CIOs needs of Green,
Growth and Governance and results in new edge data center
with reduced cost and enhanced performance. HCL and EMC
have realized that G3 data centers will help CIOs in three major
areas – how to reduce carbon foot prints and energy expenditure
by adopting for Green IT; how to govern and build a resilient
data center and thus a robust IT infrastructure; how to
transform data center environment resulting in high business
growth.
GREEN
With rising energy costs, a slow down in the economy and social pressures to go green; CIOs must focus on
how much energy they are consuming. A it’s a fact that IT is power-hungry, there has never been a more
compelling time to cut both the costs of running your IT and your carbon footprint. Whether it’s the power
supporting IT Infrastructure (30-40% of total DC power) or the power supporting Physical Infrastructure
(60-70% of total DC power); CIOs need to relook the consumption and redefine Green IT strategy.
GOVERNACE
Changing industry regulations, business norms, data security threats and need for high business availably
have redefined the need for data center governance. Enterprise risk is pervasive - from natural catastrophes
to internal and external threats, from audits to legal requests and government regulations. As a result, a CIO
has to ensure IT continuity, compliance to regulations and security to safeguard organizational assets and
help minimize negative financial exposure.
GROWTH
CIO’s changed role not only results in higher IT responsibility but also demands for a contribution in
business growth. With rapid growth in business applications it is quintessential to transform data center
environment with better return on investment and business aligned Infrastructure.
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GRE
GO
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Reduced Power Resilient Infrastructure Reduced TCO
GREEN
GROWTH
GOVERNANCE
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AN
Reduced Assets Business Coninuity Transformed IT
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Reduced Carbon Adherence environment
Foot prints Enhanced Security Scalable, Responsive and
WTH
Flexible Data Centers
GRO

4. G3 DATA CENTRE SERVICES
FROM HCL AND EMC
The G3 data center services by HCL and EMC HCL and EMC share a 360 degree relationship
have been developed to address three key in IT Infrastructure space to help organizations
issues of a data center and CIO: transforming their businesses by high end
technology products from EMC combined with
HCL domain expertise and data center
to have a sustainable
services. HCL, by virtue of its investments in
growth in post recession era
product engineering of EMC storage,
How
to reduce operational IT cost and Documentum and RSA, for over 8 years, has
carbon footprints by use of “Green IT” broad and deep product knowledge. This
product knowledge coupled with its
to govern the entire business professional services capabilities help
environment according to industry organizations to transform their data centers
norms & business requirement and achieve G3 objectives – Green,
Governance and Growth.
HCL’s Play EMC’s Play
Data Center Build Low Power Disk
Data Center Drives
Consolidation
GREEN Data Center
Fully Automated
Storage and Backup
Virtualization VMware and Hyper V
Support
Business Continuity Information Lifecycle
Plan Management
Disaster Recovery
GOVERNANCE Services
Integrated Archival
and Backup Software
Data Center Security RSA Security
Solution
Data Center Scale out Architecture
Transformation Managed Backup and
GROWTH Shared DC Services
Strategic Outsourcing
Storage
Zero Data Loss
Solutions

5. GREEN Services
HCL data center build, consolidation and 15 to 35% reduction in energy cost over
virtualization help organizations in assessing, the period of three years
planning, integrating and transforming data Image of socially responsible
center environment. The objective is to organization by reducing carbon
optimize the entire environment with less emission by 20 to 30%
power requirement, high asset utilization and Improved asset utilization by up to 65%
minimal carbon emission.
Alliance with EMC helps in building storage
and information lifecycle management
solutions and results in a Greener data center
environment.
GOVERNANCE Services
HCL disaster recovery and business continuity
services have been developed to help
enterprises in adhering to industry norms and
Robust BCP plan with defined recovery save their business by natural calamities and
time objective and recovery point disasters. The BCP plan assesses data driven,
objective business driven and event driven risks and
Seamless integration of data with an forms a strong road map to address them. The
uptime of 99.8% objective here is to provide a secured data
Customized solutions according to center environment with 99.8% uptime.
industry compliances and regulations
EMC’s Information life cycle management
solutions and security services (RSA) help HCL
in building customized governance solutions
according to CIO’s needs.
GROWTH Services
HCL data center transformation services focus on
creating sustainable business growth through
operational excellence and reduced cost. They Reduced total cost of ownership through
along with strategic sourcing services have been asset consolidation, shared services and
innovated to help CIOs in transforming the entire flexible pricing options
business environment by optimized use of IT and Scalable and responsive data centers
consultancy services. Shared service help our which help in addressing business
clients by giving them various technical and challenges in a faster and efficient
commercial options which suit their business manners
needs. Optimized and transformed IT
environment
EMC’s leadership in innovation and back up
technology help clients to achieve a sustainable
and regular growth through managed back up
services and zero data loss solutions.

6. Summary
G3 data center services will form the core of IT strategies of CIOs looking to deliver more with less
and stepping into shoes of a “Business Leader” from “Business Enabler”. As green data centers have
become a quintessential need for the organizations, CIOs are looking not only to cut the power cost
but to gain the carbon credits for their organizations. Industry norms, business risks and need for a
robust governance framework will be the another key data center requirement for the CIOs looking
to make their business risk free by mitigating business, event and data related risks. Finally, as CIOs
have taken the leadership role, growing the business in sustainable manner by transforming the IT
landscape will be the top priority of CIO strategy. Organizations adapting to G3 data centers and
aligning their data center strategy with 3 Gs will be able to transform their IT infrastructure and
achieve business benefits in a faster and efficient manner.