30 Dec 2008, 0320 hrs IST, Harsimran Singh, ET Bureau

NEW DELHI: Blue, green, yellow and orange. Thousands of multicoloured wires, pour down from behind tall black racks, stacked in rows, bathed in

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white light in a giant hall.

Hundreds of tiny green bulbs blink simultaneously in servers stacked in the racks on top of a white hollow floor which circulates chilled air from beneath, creating an image, straight out of a Hollywood Sci-Fi. Trillions of megabytes of binary data circulates in the India’s largest data centre at HP R&D Tech Labs, about 16 kilometres from the heart of Bangalore. Welcome to the world of Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM)!

Despite the economic slowdown, infrastructure management services (IMS) is becoming the lucrative vertical for Indian IT. According to Nasscom, the remote IMS business out of India currently stands at $200-300 million but has a market potential of $55 billion globally.

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