HP and Sify Technologies Limited, a leading Data Center player (NASDAQ, Global Markets: SIFY) today jointly announced an agreement to power SIFY’s On-Demand cloud services using HP’s Converged Infrastructure. This will allow Sify to provide demand based computing services on a pay per use or flexible contract model. Customers using the new service will be able to accelerate time to market and reduce cost by leveraging IT services on the fly, without making substantial capital investments in technology.Established in1998, Sify is India’s first Private Internet Service Provider (ISP). In 2000, Sify built India’s first Tier III Internet Data Center at Vashi, Navi Mumbai. The company today provides data center hosting services, corporate connectivity services, managed network, voice services, applications and system integration services. Continuing the journey to simplify computing access for businesses and organizations, Sify wanted to expand its offering with new cloud based services. To build and secure an agile cloud infrastructure, it required a robust, integrated, flexible but simplified platform that would significantly minimize the time to provision new users or application infrastructure. In addition, the model demanded instant capacity augmentation and scalability of computing resources.
Using HP’s Converged Infrastructure, Sify is now launching new cloud services including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for select applications under its On-Demand Hosting Platform. To enable this, the Blade System Matrix a product of HP’s converged infrastructure, pools together Sify’s IT resource into a highly automated and virtualized resource pool. Specific application templates have been developed to automatically provision resources for every new business requirement. Businesses users will be able to request IT services on the fly by using a self service portal powered by the HP Insight Orchestration tool, within the Blade System Matrix.
Raju Vegesna, Chairman and Managing Director, Sify Technologies Limited, said “We are excited and energized by the launch of On-Demand platform, as it extends our commitment to our customers of “keeping them ahead” by bringing innovative, business centric, services oriented approach to their connectivity, hosting, and communications needs. We will continue to invest and innovate in building “Information Communication Technology- ICT”-as-a-service model, which will enable our customers in India and beyond, to leverage technology on the TAP.”
“A number of industries are experiencing spiraling growth in data services. They are now looking for new ways to source technology and avoid upfront costs. Sify’s new cloud service will enable our customers to source IT-as-a-Service without compromising on performance, security and control,” said P J Nath, Executive President, Enterprise Business, Sify. “HP’s technology delivers a highly resilient and elastic computing infrastructure that will enable Sify to deploy computing resources in the scale and durations dictated by our customers”.
He added, “The launch of our On-Demand Hosting Services is a momentous beginning as it integrates Sify’s expertise in data center, network, security, enterprise applications and professional support services and gives unique advantage to our enterprise customers to leverage fully integrated Cloud infrastructures under single window solution”
“Customers are looking at cloud technologies to minimize cost, improve efficiency and be adaptive to market changes,” said Som Satsangi, Director, Enterprise Server, Storage and Networking, HP India. “Using converged Infrastructure, Sify is able to deliver a highly scalable and expandable cloud platform that significantly reduces the time and cost of deploying new IT services. Sify’s customers will be able to scale up or down resources by leveraging the full potential of virtualization, cloud and intelligent management in the converged infrastructure.”
As part of the agreement HP and Sify will also leverage their network to promote these services in the SMB segment. Sify will also leverage HP’s network of ISV partners to offer applications on the cloud model
