SIFY Launches On-Demand Cloud Services Using HP Converged Infrastructure

MUMBAI, India, May 20, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 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 (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/solutions/converged/main.html). 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 in 1998, 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 (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/solutions/converged/main.html) 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 (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/solutions/insightdynamics/provision.html) 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.

About Sify Technologies

Sify is among the largest Managed Enterprise and Consumer Internet Services companies in India, offering end-to-end solutions with a comprehensive range of products delivered over a common telecom data network infrastructure reaching more than 600 cities and towns in India.

A significant part of the company's revenue is derived from Corporate Services, which include corporate connectivity, network and communications solutions, security, network management services, enterprise applications and hosting. Sify is recognized as an ISO 9001:2008 certified service provider for network operations, data center operations and customer support, and for provisioning of VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP solutions and integrated security solutions, and ISO / IEC 20000 - 1:2005 certified for Internet Data Center operations. Sify has licenses to operate NLD (National Long Distance) and ILD (International Long Distance) services and offers VoIP back haul to long distance subscriber telephony services. The company is India's first enterprise managed services provider to launch a Security Operations Center (SOC) to deliver managed security services. A host of blue chip customers use Sify's corporate service offerings.

Sify also caters to global markets in the specialized domains of eLearning Services and Remote Infrastructure Management Services. The eLearning Services business designs, develops, and delivers state-of-the-art digital learning solutions catering to for-profit, non-profit organizations, and governmental organizations in the fields of hi-tech, engineering, environment, healthcare, education, and finance. The Remote Infrastructure Management Services provides dependable and economical solutions around managed services, hosting, and monitoring.

Consumer services include broadband home access and the ePort cyber cafe chain cross more than 200 cities and towns in India. Sify.com, the popular consumer portal, has channels on news, entertainment, finance, sports, games and shopping. Samachar.com is the popular portal aimed at non-resident Indians around the globe. The site's content is available in 8 Indian languages, which include Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil, Punjabi and Gujarati in addition to English.

For more information about Sify, visit http://www.sifycorp.com

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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements. Sify undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements.

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