Enabling India’s Businesses to Flourish in the AI Era
India’s tech landscape is poised for a dynamic journey in 2024, particularly as the nation moves towards an AI-driven future.
As one of the fastest adopters of Gen AI, India witnesses a flourishing data environment with the rapid integration of AI applications, leading to a surge in data generation. This rapid AI adoption escalates IT spending and necessitates increased data storage capacity, underscoring the crucial role of data centers in India’s digital transformation. This growth surge has propelled market expansion and heightened the demand for efficient data storage solutions.
According to IDC, the global datasphere is projected to double in size over the next four years, with an estimated 291ZB of data expected to be generated by 2027. As AI applications become more sophisticated, the data volume is set to experience exponential growth, surpassing manufactured storage capacity by 15 times.
The explosive rise in data creation triggers an insatiable need for storage and poses challenges for enterprises worldwide, including India, in managing the expanding digital footprint without escalating physical infrastructure and carbon footprint.
Seagate’s Mozaic 3+ hard drive platform addresses the scale, TCO, and sustainability challenges, offering enterprises the flexibility to scale for emerging applications and accommodate explosive data growth. Harnessing a breakthrough collection of nanoscale technologies, Mozaic 3+ integrates Seagate’s distinctive implementation of HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) to deliver mass-capacity storage. It boasts unparalleled areal densities of 3TB+ per platter, with future projections aiming for 4TB+ and 5TB+ per platter. Mozaic 3+ empowers data center operators to confront the ever-expanding storage challenge by facilitating the storage of exabytes within the same footprint, without necessitating additional space, power, or natural resources.
With 90% of large data center exabytes stored on hard drives, increased data density enables enterprises to store more data on a single server, leading to reduced required racks and floor space. For instance, upgrading from a fleet of 16TB drives to 30TB drives allows enterprises to effectively double the storage capacity within the same footprint and achieve a 40% enhancement in per-terabyte power consumption. Moreover, it offers a 55% reduction in embodied carbon per terabyte, significantly contributing to sustainability objectives. This consolidation translates into substantial savings in operational expenditure, including power, cooling, CPU, RAM, and floor space costs.
Bob Yang, Vice President of APAC Sales at Seagate, emphasized, “We believe that areal innovation will present unparalleled opportunities for businesses in India to optimize their storage infrastructure and devise a winning strategy for the AI era.”
“India demonstrates tremendous growth potential as we witness enterprises making significant strides in enhancing their data storage infrastructure and initiatives to harness AI for innovation. Seagate remains dedicated to empowering them to efficiently store and manage large volumes of data, thus propelling their business success,” he added.