Sify leverages Aquila Clouds FinOps on its CloudInfinit Platform
SAN RAMON, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: SIFY), India’s leading Digital ICT solutions provider with global service capabilities spanning Data Center, Cloud, Networks, Security and Digital services, and Aquila Clouds, a leader in cloud financial management solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that has added FinOps capabilities to Sify’s industry-leading cloud management platform, CloudInfinit.
Today’s announcement marks the availability of CloudInfinit FinOps, powered by Aquila Clouds. This technology-leading FinOps platform provides cloud asset management, performance, and cost trend analysis, cloud cost optimization and automation, budget control, chargeback, security and compliance management, and more. This FinOps addition to CloudInfinit now enables cloud operators and finance managers to run lean, optimized, and secure cloud operations.
“We see a huge win-win situation for Sify and Aquila Clouds in this partnership,” said Jitender Durairajan, Head of Cloud Engineering and Solutions at Sify Technology. “Using Aquila Clouds to power Sify’s CloudInfinit FinOps capabilities significantly shortens our time-to-market and creates immediate value for our customers who increasingly need a decipherable pattern to their cloud financials.”
Besides FinOps, Aquila Clouds also powers Sify’s billing operations with its BillOps platform. Aquila Clouds BillOps streamlines and automates billing operations, providing capabilities to customize pricing rules that perfectly fit Sify’s’ business model.
“We are delighted that Aquila Clouds FinOps solution has been included to power Sify’s CloudInfinit FinOps offering,” said Desmond Chan, co-founder, and CPO at Aquila Clouds. “Being chosen by such a strong Enterprise Cloud Solutions Provider is a great testament to the strength of our solution. We look forward to creating great success for both companies in the near future.”
About Sify Technologies
A Fortune India 500 company, Sify Technologies is India’s most comprehensive ICT service & solution provider. With Cloud at the core of our solutions portfolio, Sify is focussed on the changing ICT requirements of the emerging Digital economy and the resultant demands from large, mid, and small-sized businesses.
Sify’s infrastructure comprising 11 state-of-the-art Data Centers, the largest MPLS network, partnership with global technology majors, and deep expertise in business transformation solutions modeled on the cloud, make it the first choice of start-ups, SMEs, and even large Enterprises on the verge of a revamp.
Internationally, Sify has a presence across North America, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. Sify, www.sify.com, Sify Technologies, and www.sifytechnologies.com are registered trademarks of Sify Technologies Limited.
About Aquila Clouds
Aquila Clouds is a cloud financial management solution that enables managed service providers, cloud resellers, and enterprises to manage billing and optimize cloud costs and performance. We help organizations that are invested in public clouds to monitor and optimize their cloud deployments and automate their billing operations. Our FinOps and BillOps solutions apply data analytics and AI/ML techniques to achieve continuous monitoring and continuous optimization that has delivered over 20% in cloud cost savings and reduced billing operation time by as much as 82%.
For further information, please contact:
Sify Technologies Limited
Mr. Praveen Krishna
Investor Relations & Public Relations
+91 9840926523
18th Annual CIO&LEADER Conference CIO&2020
A forum to deliberate on future roadmap of the IT landscape
Sify was the Premier Partner at the Mega Leadership forum CIO@ 2020 conceptualized by 9.9 Media where 100 plus CIOs came together to discuss and deliberate on future roadmap of the IT landscape. Sify leveraged multiple engagement opportunities at the forum to showcase itself as an end-to-end ICT solutions provider and its expertise across industries.
The forum included the following sessions…
Transformation 2020- An ICT Perspective
Sify shared valuable insights on the CIOs role for agenda 2020 and key drivers for technology adoption. Sify’s Industry focused expertise, leveraging digital technologies and alliances strategies on an outcome base business model will be essential.
CIO Cocktail 2020- Fusion for Transformation
The panel comprised of esteemed CIOs who discussed upon key technology ingredients required for enterprises to be future ready.
Digitization of Industries
The Ideas Cafe deliberation revolved around pain points and challenges of CIOs with respect to their industry and how Sify can be a relevant ICT solutions provider in this journey.
Digital Workplace
The workshop delved into ‘Transforming the enterprise into a digital workplace: challenges, benefits and impact.’ Leveraging enterprise collaboration solutions across devices, technologies, channels and locations leading to true unified communications.
Manufacturing 4.0
Discussion revolved around what are the strategic, business and economic imperatives for Industry 4.0, the key enablers and best practices for digital transformation in Manufacturing.
Tech Stack Agenda 2020
Agenda 2020 Tech Stack, enabled a set of actionable priorities for Indian CIOs, keeping in mind multiple vectors that could influence the strategic priorities before Indian businesses – technology trends, business environment, macro-economic changes in India and around the world.
Venue
The Ananta, Udaipur
Date
4th August 2017 – 6th August 2017
Organizers
9dot9 media
19th CIO & Leader Conference 2018
The Practical CIO
The 19th Annual CIO&Leader Conference is a trusted two-decade old platform to engage with the top CIOs in India, which enables technology companies to demonstrate their ability and solutions to help enterprises in achieving their business goals.
This year’s theme – The Practical CIO – is decided keeping that in mind. The CIO today is a value creator. With businesses increasingly looking for ‘use cases’ for newer technologies rather than just ‘solutions’ to defined problems, the CIO’s role has changed from proactively looking for opportunities to adding business value.
With this theme, Sify had immense opportunity to show enterprises how they can leverage Sify technology and solutions to get to their business goals. Like in earlier years, more than 102 unique organizations and 116 CIOs from some of the largest Indian enterprises took part in the conference.
Highlights of Sify Engagement at the event
Insightful keynote session by Arindam Mukherjee
Sify Experience Zone
One on one meetings with CIOs
Cloud @ Core deep dive workshops
Ideas Cafe – Capex vs Opex business models for transformation
Fireside Chat
Digital & Social Media Engagement
Venue
Holiday Inn, Goa
Date
10th August 2018 – 12th August 2018
Organizers
9.9 Group
CIO100 Symposium & Awards 2017
Honouring the 2017 CIO 100 winners
CIO100 is the acknowledged mark of excellence in enterprise IT and was ranked by CEOs among the top 10 most influential corporate scorecards globally. This proud tradition of recognizing CIOs began in the USA over 25 years ago and is now a celebrated annual event across continents. In India, the 1st Friday of September has become a red-letter date that unites the industry and showcases the best of Indian enterprise IT at the annual CIO10 Symposium & Awards ceremony. This ultimate recognition platform for winners only, ensures CIO100 remains exclusive to the crème de la crème of enterprise IT leaders and accounts for its reputation as the “Oscars of the IT industry”.
This year, the CIO100 – Digital Innovator honored those CIOs who are using IT in smart and relevant ways to not only deliver business value but also reinvent what the IT department represents within an organization.
Being the keynote partner for a second year in a row at CIO100 Symposium, Sify Technologies gained high visibility among the crème de la crème IT leaders of the country. With ample and exciting fun activities like Digitally innovate your selfie, Mini Golf, Photo Mug and wackiest selfie contest – the Sify experience zone was designed to stimulate thought and facilitate networking.
The event spotlight was when Mr. Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies struck a synergy with the audience during his keynote session on “Digital Transformation & Innovation” and shed light on how CIOs can transform to become Chief Innovative Officers.
In the International Keynote, addressing CIO100 2017 on human technology, Danielle Di-Masi, “As leaders CIOs must reach out to team members constantly”.
In the Focused Business Series, Bhavesh Mathur, VP and Head – Data Center Transformation conducted an enriching session on “Digital Master Class – Crash Course for Innovation & Transformation” for the 15 top CIOs who attended this session.
Venue
JW Marriott, Pune
Date
31st August 2017 – 1st September 2017
Organizers
International Data Group (IDG)
Digital transformation powered by Cloud@core
Premier life insurer embarks on Sify’s manage-services-led hybrid cloud transformation of legacy IT with zero downtime and 25% reduction in annual cost.
Project Objective
Implement integrated future-ready digital infrastructure on hyperscale cloud
Project Model
Fully services model (vis-à-vis existing capex + services model)
Sify’s Uniqueness
Integrated value proposition built on: Cloud-Adjacent DC, Hyperscale (AWS) partnership, Hybrid Cloud Management Platform, DRaaS, DC and Sify Cloud Interconnect, Security Services and Migration Services
Integrated Value and Outcome
Cloud@core products and services:
- All cloud-ready applications migrated to hyperscale (AWS)
- Legacy apps and infra in cloud-adjacent DC with near 0 latency
- DR at a different seismic zone with hybrid deployment of post cloud infra and DRaaS from cloud@core
- Hybrid security framework for both hosted & cloud footprint
- Full lifecycle responsibility through assessment, zero downtime migration & implementation within a record timeline
- Hybrid cloud management platform for management of the Hosted Private and AWS Cloud footprint
Value for client
25% reduction in yearly cost, return on investments, agile digital-ready infrastructure, end-to-end ownership by one partner, no conflict of interest with application partners.
CIO 200 Tech Summit and Awards 2017
Addressing technological gaps in organizations and acknowledging their work in digital transformation
The Enterprise IT World ‘CIO200 Tech Summit’ and ‘Change Agents 2017’ Awards was an unprecedented milestone for the Indian IT industry where the awards recognized 200 of the top CIOs pan India and encouraged them to take technology in the Indian corporate world to new heights.
This event was designed to connect the two key pillars of IT, the vendors and decision makers with an aim to address the challenges faced by IT leaders in enterprises today through panel discussions and presentations around the theme of Digital Transformation. The highlight of the evening, the Change Agents 2017 Awards recognized the work of CIOs from across sectors in the digital transformations of the organizations. The gala event witnessed valuable deliberations from the industry leaders on the role and empowerment of the CIO Community.
The objective of the event was to empower the CIOs and ITDMs to address the technological gaps in their organization’s infrastructure and acknowledge their work in the digital transformation which helped their organizations to drive growth through IT.
Sify was the presenting partner at the mega event to discuss and deliberate on future roadmap of the IT landscape. Sify leveraged multiple engagement opportunities at the forum to showcase itself as an end-to-end ICT solutions provider and shared its deep industry expertise.
Sify shared valuable insights on the CIOs role for Digital Transformation and key drivers for technology adoption. Sify’s industry focused expertise, leveraging digital technologies and alliance strategies on an outcome based business model, was the talk of the event.
Venue
JW Marriot, Mumbai
Date
3 Nov 2017
Organizers
UBS Transformance
Cloud Transformation with Agility, Flexibility & Choices
SPEAKERS:
Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies
Ravi Maguluri, CTO – Cloud & Managed Services, Sify Technologies
DATE:
September 9, 2020 | 6.00 PM
DESCRIPTION:
The constraints on conducting business amidst the lockdowns have driven organizations to use technology for immediate cost reductions even as they continue to grapple with the usual budget contenders for tactical and medium term to strategic and long-term objectives.
The need of the hour for enterprise technology leaders is to adopt scalable and flexible IT infrastructures that can be consumed on demand to ease their capex cost and cash flow. Cloud has become even more relevant than ever for IT leaders to achieve their twin objectives of Digital Optimization during their recovery phase and Digital Transformation to be ready for the return of growth. These objectives are best achieved by means of Agility, Flexibility and Choices offered by Sify’s Cloud@Core products and services.
Where do we start? And what to do next? In your pursuit of cloud adoption, there are many decisions that need to be made with respect to the architecture to be devised, process to be followed, the selection of technologies and services necessary.
To enable IT decision makers in maximizing cloud by throwing light on its various business-technology aspects, ETCIO and Sify are organizing a topical webinar.
Security For The New Normal
SPEAKERS:
Ravi Maguluri, CTO Cloud & Managed Services, Sify Technologies
Arvind Gautam, EVP & Business Head Technology Integration Services, Sify Technologies
DATE:
November 20, 2020 | 6.00 PM
DESCRIPTION:
Globally, the pandemic has created challenges for businesses and enterprises are struggling to efficiently operate in an altered world. As a result, there is a sudden increase in digital technology adoption, and enterprises are forced to shift their workloads to the cloud. Enterprises are apprehensive about the overall security associated with the cloud.
Understanding the gravity of a secure workplace to drive a secure future, ETCIO in association with Sify is hosting a webinar titled “Security For The New Normal”. Gain the best practices from the industry experts on security and privacy challenges relevant to cloud computing.
Key Takeaways
- Understanding the new threat landscape and designing a detailed strategic roadmap
- Data-centric view of business while migrating to the cloud
- Building a robust Cloud Security Posture for an effective security framework
- Analyzing comprehensive and proven Cloud Access Security
- Identifying security and risk management roles and responsibilities
- Cloud Workload Protection: Better control over assets and build enhanced cloud security and resiliency
Digitalizing world’s most widely distributed network
Managed-services-led opex model secures lower TCO for government-operated postal network connecting 30,000+ locations
The world’s most widely distributed network uses managed-services-led model to secure lower TCO while connecting 30,000+ locations in digitalization effort
Project Objective
To connect 30,000+ branches in India as part of its digital initiative.
Project Model
Managed-Services-led opex model
Sify’s Uniqueness
Integrated value of skills – NI, Project Management, NOC & Managed Services, Security Services and Network Infrastructure Services
Integrated Value and Outcome
Sify’s solution comprising multiple service providers & media enabled it to provide a country-wide network covering 30,000+ locations. Sify’s solution demonstrated a combined value of integration, managed services and infrastructure solution richness.
Value for client
Sify was able to roll-out the network integration & connectivity project in 18 months and connected all locations, thereby fulfilling the customer’s digital transformation needs.
Enhancing digital footprint through hybrid, agile cloud
Modernized 80% of the business applications of retail giant with zero service disruption across 600+ retails outlets
Project Objective
Demerge the IT environment from the parent group company IT and set-up a new hybrid IT to run the retail application to support 620 supermarkets, 22 hypermarkets, 11 warehouse and 10 branches.
Project Model
Opex | Consumption Model
Sify’s Uniqueness
Integrated value proposition: Sify successfully leveraged hybrid IT offering – AWS, Colocation, DR, Managed Network and Security to demerge the IT environment from the parent group company.
Integrated Value and Outcome
cloud@core products and services
- Migration of existing IT infrastructure components with minimum services disruption
- Hybrid IT – Leveraged AWS to run 80% of the Retail application and 20% of the legacy application on Sify Colocation Services
- Leveraged Sify Managed Connectivity Services to Interconnect DC , DR data replication and branch application access.
- Managing datacenter, Disaster Recovery services , Network Services and security using Sify Managed Services Platform
- Strong Project Management to complete the project on a time and within the budgeted cost.
Value for client
A single IT Managed Services partner to carve out the application from the parent company and host it on a hybrid IT & manage IT services across Cloud, Colocation, Disaster Recovery, Network and Security.
