India, Nov. 18 -- As enterprises across India and the SAARC region accelerate adoption of AI, hybrid cloud and data-heavy applications, storage, long viewed as silent plumbing beneath the infrastructure stack, has quickly emerged as one of the most significant contributors to data centre power consumption. In a climate where ESG reporting, regulatory expectations and carbon neutrality commitments are intensifying, CIOs and channel partners are beginning to reimagine storage not as passive hardware but as an active lever of energy optimisation.

Against this backdrop, Hitachi Vantara is positioning modern storage as a measurable and accountable force within the green IT movement. In a conversation with DQ Channels, Sanjay Agrawal, CTO and ...