MOBILE DATA CENTERS - A LOSING ECONOMIC PROPOSITION

you spoke my heart sir  , green data centers are certainly the need of the hour. No doubt about the increase of demand and services associated with it .

u r right Sumitra

MOBILE DATA CENTERS BECOMING MAINSTREAM

The portable datacenter market has matured in recent times and now offers a broader range of vendor services, customers are also now accepting the technology as mainstream. Now the market views portable data center facilities as a viable "permanent" business option, rather than a temporary alternative.

Some of the Early Vendors in this space are Sun Micro Systems, IBM, HP. Mobile data centers are offering advantages such as lower capital costs, faster time-to-market, flexibility and ease of use.

There is one serious and important issue which have to be addressed. Energy consumption and cooling requirements by today's data centers.

The data center industry is the fourth largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions, accounting for 3 percent of global pollution, according to the US Department of Energy (DEP). The DEP predicts that if the industry continues at its current pace, 14 new coal plants will need to be built by the year 2012 in order to support that growth.

"We really believe that as the data demands grow and computing power increases, data center infrastructure will have to become more energy efficient otherwise rising energy costs will make even the smallest data center a losing economic proposition."