The missing SLA in India’s data centre boom: Physical infrastructure handling
By Ajit Venkatesh, Director, Globe Moving
India’s digital economy is expanding at an unprecedented pace—with CII data showing 40%+ annual growth in data center investments. Organizations are investing crores in AI infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, high-performance computing environments, and mission-critical IT infrastructure, often with aggressive timelines and zero tolerance for deployment delays. Data centres are no longer simply facilities that house servers; they have become the backbone of banking, healthcare, e-commerce, manufacturing, telecommunications, government services, and nearly every aspect of modern business.
As organisations continue to spend crores on servers, storage systems, networking equipment, cybersecurity platforms, cooling systems, and power infrastructure, one critical risk often remains overlooked: the physical handling of these assets.
While CIOs rigorously govern uptime SLAs, cybersecurity frameworks, disaster recovery plans, compliance controls, the physical movement of critical infrastructure is frequently delegated to administrative, facility or procurement functions where logistics is often evaluated primarily on...
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