Keeping You Ahead with Hyper connected Data Centers

In today’s hyperconnected world, with the global business environment changing at a war speed, businesses and countries are competing to keep pace with the shifting consumer behaviours. In organizations where IT is still treated as a siloed business process, IT administrators have to invest valuable time and effort in managing the IT infrastructure as well as coordinate with multiple roosted vendors to carry out periodic upgrades and changes to the IT infrastructure, as and when necessary. 

Sify Technologies, India’s most comprehensive ICT solutions and services provider, comes with a legacy of offering agile and flexible solutions, while the organization can focus on what it does best: its core business. 

Sify’s propositions to the DC demand market are multi-pronged. They have recognized that the Data Center is no more a standalone entity and hence brings parallel demands for robust connectivity and security. In short, it is not just the DC stack, but the connected entity that customers buy into. 

Sify’s Data Center services like collocation, managed hosting, DC IT services to DC migration ensure it meets all the demands of the customers.  The high-speed Sify network features a next-generation architecture with automatic fail over for enterprise-class resiliency and up to 99.99% uptime. Provisioning is fast and seamless. The Data Centers are ideally suited to both the primary Data Center and DR. These are strategically located in different seismic zones across India, with highly redundant power and cooling systems that meet and even exceed the industry’s highest standards. 

Sify’s impressive portfolio of over 4,25,000 sq. ft. of server farm is spread across six concurrently maintainable Data Centers, 15 other Data Centers, 6 State Data Centers and several more for private clients, all built to exacting specifications and best-in-class global standards.   

Features of Hyperconnected Data Center

•    45 Data Centers connected by high-capacity fiber access
•    Internet Exchange present in Data Center in Mumbai
•    Zero Latency access to AWS Direct Connect in Mumbai.
•    This DC also hosts the AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange).
•    Carrier neutral with presence of major telecom operators within Data Centers

Sify has over 18 years of operational and technical expertise serving over 300 DC customers spread across BFSI, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education, media and government. 

As a cloud and network services provider, Sify understands that reliable and affordable connectivity is the key to leverage Data Center and cloud investments made by organizations. Sify’s cloud cover connects over 45 Data Centers across the country, on a high-speed network. The company provides high-capacity multi-protocol low-latency networks across multiple cities in India to provide solutions to address the unique requirements for data center traffic. Sify Technologies has marquee customers who leverage this network to connect their disaster recovery and near-disaster recovery facilities to their primary data center. 

Sify Technologies has demonstrated its prowess in many DC Transformation projects by implementing best-of-breed solutions which enabled customers to experience the best-fit solution to address their current and future requirements and de-risk technology adoption. This transition was played on the premise that the brand had built a sound infrastructure foundation and aligned services on them in sync with the ever-evolving needs of enterprises. Therefore, it is able to serve the requisite services with the same level of SLAs across the board.

DC Transformation for One of the Largest Private Health Insurance Organizations

A leading health insurance company with a client base of 2 million and growing at a 30-per cent YOY rate was on the lookout to be able to support the expected growth required to have an IT setup which is reliable, scalable, optimized, secure, and always available. This outlook required covering technology upgrade and transformation of the IT infrastructure and also the consolidation of the IT infrastructure and the Data Center. 

When approached, Sify rendered the following solutions:
•    Built a Private Cloud for DC & DR 
•    Migrated 100+ servers and 60TB data migration
•    VMware, OVM-based Hypervisors
•    Enabled DRaaS tool-based replication and recovery at DC and DR with RTO/RPO SLAs
•    Improved Security Significantly
•    Project Management for Implementation 
•    Managed Services for 5 years

The following were the benefits of the solutions:
•    Business Services are continuously available.
•    Improved Performance and Operational Efficiency
•    New Age DC + DR setup
•    Zero Downtime Migration 
•    Quick set up reducing planning and deployment time
•    Granular recovery intervals and data protection
•    Large Bandwidth to replicate DC data
•    Seamless transition to Managed Services
•    State-of-the-art tools, process and procedures 

Sify Technologies is also well-positioned to address the increasing market opportunities on the upcoming platforms of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as enterprises move from build to subscribe (Capex to Opex) and from control to visibility. Its cloud platform has scale-out capabilities to compete more effectively for public cloud requirements and is also extending its support to AWS and Microsoft Azure, including offering managed services on top of the third-party cloud providers. 

Being agile, Sify has a record of accomplishment in taking on any challenge in the unified ICT space, by offering customized solutions like data center transformation, applications integration and technology integration services for large, complex enterprises, SMBs, the Government and PSUs, as well as verticals in the realm of BFSI, manufacturing, retail, healthcare & pharma, education, media and IT/ITeS.

SIFY FOR DATA CENTER TRANSFORMATION
 

•    Integrated Play across Network, DC, IT & Security
•    Solution choices across dedicated, public or hybrid models
•    Innovative charge back models aligned to your business needs
•    Aggregation partner across OEM stack, Pvt / Public  cloud (Azure, AWS etc), Acceleration (Akamai, Cloudfront) and Security
•    DCT along with WAN Transformation can result even better business outcomes
•    Address skills gaps that can stall digital transformation efforts if not worked in time
•    Capitalize on new Data Management Technology, Analytics and Automation than subscribing as additional services
•    Highly predictive delivery approach & scalable in near real time during sudden data explosion.