India had never experienced so much of rainfall during the last 10 years’ time. Though this has kept the mercury down from the month of May across the country, its impact on business and farming has been far-reaching, apart from the inconvenience caused to the citizens. Very clearly, the power backup industry has gone down drastically. The battery industry, which had hiked the rates of all models, could not do business this season at all. The inverter industry has also suffered very badly; so also the power integration and backup industry.
Though the poor performance of the power integration industry is the result of the overall slump in the IT industry, yet Eaton, one of the high-end UPS manufacturers, has tried to enter into the channel market by tying up with Redington. The purpose of this tie-up is that Redington will carry from the entry-level till 30kVA UPS, and Eaton will find it easy to sell its entry-level products to the market through the channel partners.
Though the market is temporarily showing disinclination towards the power backup resources, it is true that the country is facing a huge power crisis. The enterprises have already started talking about immunity in terms of adopting green technology.
Green technology is not only the technology which keeps the servers, storage coolers or it requires less power to run, but also the process which enables the data centres and server rooms to get exact power and cooling. Even some of the enterprises have provisioned the printout to be taken on both the sides of the paper and the printers are enabled with individual passwords in order to save the printouts to be littered in the office. Less and less use of paper will result in the conservation of forests. Enterprises are also designing a lot of precision cooling in data centres, which enable the larger servers and storages to get the exact amount of cooling.
No enterprise has deployed alternative sources of energy, including solar or wind energy in the data centres as yet. Now, the time has come that they should prioritise and use alternative energy and conserve conventional energy.
Sanjay Mahapatra
Editor
