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In 1998, we were Indiaβs first Indian private ISP. Millions experienced the internet for the first time on the Sify network. We pioneered voice and data services from our public internet access points.
Two decades and a smart shift in business positioning later, Sify is now an indispensable convergence bridge that enterprises seek. Sify has matured into Indiaβs largest digital transformation company, bringing together a converged ICT ecosystem for the benefit of market-leading enterprises.
World Leadership Congress recognizes Kamal Nath as βCEO of the Year
Chennai, 22 February 2021βΒ Sify Technologies LimitedΒ (NASDAQ: SIFY), Indiaβs most comprehensive ICT solutions provider with global service capabilities spanning Networks, Data Centers, Cloud, Applications Management, Managed Services, and Systems integration announced that Chief Executive Officer, Kamal Nath, has been named CEO of the Yearβ by The World Leadership Congress.
This coveted award is the premier category under βBusiness Leader of the Yearβ instituted by the World Leadership Congress. This year Business Leader of the Year celebrated its 19thΒ Global edition of the award and the 4thΒ India edition.
This year the award recognizes leaders who have seamlessly steered their organizations in the face of adversities by demonstrating capability & credence, first-hand. The eminent panel of jurists also recognized Kamalβs foresight in re-engineering Sify into the Enterprise and Digital Transformation leader that it is today.
Kamal Nath joined Sify in 2012 and quickly transitioned it into the most comprehensive ICT Solutions and Services provider in India. Sify has consistently grown in revenue and profitability and has emerged as a preferred Service Provider Partner for Enterprises, Public Sector & Government in India.
Congratulating him,Β Mr. Raju Vegesna, Chairman, Sify Technologies, said, “Kamal has earned this one, hands down. He is the architect of our converged ICT play and our ‘cloud@core’ strategy. Our emergence today as Indiaβs most courted Data Center, Cloud and Network player is a testimony to his foresight on the upcoming demand in the market.”
“Iβm delighted to receive this award by World Leadership Congress. Iβm thankful to my Sify family, which has made this possible. It is not an exaggeration to say that we at Sify, were well prepared to face a situation like the pandemic. For the entire Sify team, the learning curve during COVID-19 was shorter and angular, than steep. I think this award is a recognition of all of our efforts and I will strive to keep moving the goal post.” saidΒ Mr. Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies.
About Sify Technologies
A Fortune 500 India company, Sify Technologies is Indiaβs most comprehensive ICT service & solution provider. With Cloud at the core of our solutions portfolio, Sify is focused on the changing ICT requirements of the emerging digital economy and the resultant demands from large, mid, and small-sized businesses.
Sifyβs infrastructure comprising the largest MPLS network, top-of-the-line DCs, partnership with global technology majors, vast expertise in business transformation solutions modeled on the cloud make it the first choice of start-ups, incoming Enterprises and even large Enterprises on the verge of a revamp,
More than 10000 businesses across multiple verticals have taken advantage of our unassailable trinity of Data Centers, Networks, and Security services and conduct their business seamlessly from more than 1600 cities in India. Internationally, Sify has a presence across North America, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.
Sify,Β www.sify.com, Sify Technologies, andΒ www.sifytechnologies.comΒ are registered trademarks of Sify Technologies Limited.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of SectionΒ 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and SectionΒ 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.Β 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.
For a discussion of the risks associated with Sifyβs business, please see the discussion under the caption βRisk Factorsβ in the companyβs Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2020, which has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and is available by accessing the database maintained by the SEC atΒ www.sec.gov, and Sifyβs other reports filed with the SEC.
For further information, please contact:
Sify Technologies Limited
Mr. Praveen Krishna
Investor Relations & Public Relations
+91 44 22540777 (ext.2055)
Embarking on a successful Microsoft Cloud journey with Sify
In the digital age, migration to Cloud has become the top-most priority for businesses across realms. We are seeing major shift in the number of βCloud Hostileβ customers turning into βCloud Friendlyβ & βCloud Readyβ customers and pondering on the best plan to implement the migration successfully.
Know more about Sifyβs offerings in the cloud migration services space.
One of the major reasons behind this trend β besides performance, security, and cost β isΒ agility & flexibilityΒ which help in faster business innovations.Β Organizations have started transforming themselves digitally to drive business value and grow business with enhanced end user experience.
Over the past few years, Microsoft has earned massive popularity among organizations worldwide for being a leading Cloud and cloud managed services provider with β Azure, Microsoft 365 (M365) and Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Microsoft Azure is a highly productive, hybrid, and intelligent Cloud that allows you to leverage the power of cutting-edge digital technologies to build, deploy and manage critical applications as per your companyβs requirements. It also provides Cloud enhanced services like AI/ML, RPA, Analytics tools, and integrated Cloud resources to make your organization more agile and improve top-line performance.
Learn more about Sifyβs capabilities in the Microsoft Azure managed cloud services domain.
Considering the above benefits, many forward-looking businesses are exploring Azure Cloud-powered services and Azure managed cloud services to optimize internal processes and generate new business models. However, this digital aspiration is incomplete without transforming the technology landscape first. A strong technology foundation provided by Microsoft will help you connect your disparate data, processes, users, and applications to accomplish the end objective of organizational excellence.
Achieving all these is not as simple as it may seem initially! Thatβs where, Sifyβs consultative approach and Azure managed cloud services capabilities can help you leverage the true value of Microsoft Services and align your organizational roadmap with the ever-evolving technology landscape.
Explore why Sify ranks high among the leading cloud managed services providers across the globe. Know more about our public, private, multi- and hybrid cloud managed services capabilities.
Azure Migration:Β The most successful path
Different organizations have distinct approach towards Cloud migration and need different types of cloud migration services, and their decisions are governed by business specific priorities and constraints. You must know that Cloud migration services involve significant organizational change management across people, process, and technology. Itβs very important to draft a holistic approach to migrate successfully and realize the benefits of efficiency, agility, and cost.
Sifyβs cloud migration services for Azure
As a trusted partner among cloud managed services providers globally, Sify offers unmatched capabilities in cloud migration services. With Sify as your strategic partner for cloud migration services, you are perfectly positioned to draft, implement, and monitor the overall migration plan in the most successful way. Our team of Cloud experts, Azure certified professionals, cutting-edge toolchains, and partner ecosystem can help you accomplish migration goals successfully. Our cloud migration services can help you across all three phases of migration β assessment, migration, and optimization.
Assessment: This is the first phase of migration journey, which includes assessing and discovering your on-premises apps, data, and infrastructure. Our comprehensive range of cloud migration services and assessment services can help you map dependencies across applications and decide their priority of Azure migration for a seamless journey.
Migration: The actual cloud migration begins in this phase, where you start moving your apps, data and infrastructure β leveraging the best-suited cloud migration services, strategies and tools. Our cloud migration services will help you automate the entire migration journey (depending upon your IT specific needs) and minimize the downtime.
Optimization: Once you have moved to Cloud, it becomes important to monitor your Cloud resources continuously for better performance, enhanced security, and reduced cost. Consistently ranked among the leading cloud managed services providers, our managed services will help you maximize your ROI and leverage unified visibility of Cloud resources for efficient resource utilization and optimization.
Explore how Sifyβs cloud migration services bring the assurance of high rates of success. Know more about our public, private and hybrid cloud managed services and migration capabilities.
Sify + Azure Advantage
- Single window solution provider (Network, Security, Azure IT and Management)
- End-to-end Azure service coverage: Access β Architect β Migrate β Manage β Secure
- Integrated Azure network and security proposition
- Unified Dashboard across Azure IT
- Simplified Execution and single point of ownership
Know moreΒ about transforming your IT Infrastructure with Sifyβs Microsoft Azure managed cloud services capabilities.
Microsoft 365 β Mail migration
With Office 365 becoming the de-facto mode for conducting business, it is important to modernize the underlying infrastructure and platform. It is imperative for enterprises to move their legacy exchange and other mailboxes to Office 365 in order to reap full benefits of their workflow optimizations. Additionally, Office 365 offers the benefit of pay per use pricing for optimizing cost.
So in case, you are exploring the possibilities to conceptualize and implement your cloud migration in the most success-driven manner, Sify can help you embark on a successful Microsoft Cloud journey.
Our Accreditations
- Microsoft Certified Partner for Cloud & Managed Services
- Certified Deployment Partner for deployment of M365 & Azure services
- Express Route Partnership for seamless connectivity with MS Cloud Azure & Microsoft 365
- Certified team for Migration & Deployment of MS SQL workloads
- Certified team for deployment of Hybrid Cloud Platform
Simplify Your Network Transformation
Simplify your Network Transformation with Sify
The business world is witnessing an unprecedented transformation as organizations across verticals are passionate to embrace new technologies. Cloud, Analytics, Automation, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning are some major forces that are enabling enterprises to deliver a top-tier experience to customers. As organizations nowadays are highly reliant on these emerging technologies to achieve organizational excellence, one must acknowledge that all cutting-edge technologies require an intelligent and robust network. There are numerous factors that are fundamentally redefining the ways new-age networks work and function. The emergence of new global trends and multiple new technology trends have compelled organizations to demand more from networks. This blog discusses:
- Major global and technology trends that have paved the way for network transformation.
- New-age network architecture and design for Intelligent Network services
- How Sify can help you in your network transformation journey with a wide range of Intelligent Network Services.
Global Business Trends leading to increased demands from Networks
- Hyperconnected Enterprises:
In the digital age, global organizations rely on a multitude of connections for geographically distributed people, processes, and devices. Also, the increasing adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud has compelled global enterprises to become hyperconnected. For such hyperconnected enterprises, a scalable network is quite critical to deliver top-tier services to customers across the globe through digital technologies. - Digital Business Transformation:
In line with their digital ambition, organizations worldwide are looking to leverage Cloud-native technologies such as analytics, mobility, IoT, AI, and ML to modernize and develop new processes, services, and models for generating new revenue streams. An intelligent and adaptable network can quickly adjust according to evolving requirements, facilitating seamless transformation. - Automation and Robotics:
Several enterprises rely on Automation, Robotics, and Robotic Process Automation to improve operational efficiency, quality of services, and customer satisfaction score. The use of Automation and Robotics in the coming years will continue to surge as companies look to improve quality, workforce productivity, customer satisfaction, and more. This is even more relevant than ever in the pandemic-stricken world. As automation of processes is time-sensitive and mission-critical, enterprises will need round-the-clock availability and reliability from their distributed networks as even a minor lapse in network availability or reliability can potentially hamper the process flow and affect overall efficiencies and customer satisfaction.
Technology Trends powering fundamental Network Transformation
- Applications being modularized and distributed across Clouds: Recently, hybrid Cloud and microservices have gained massive prominence across business verticals. The majority of software applications are being modularized and distributed across public Clouds and network edge. To support applications across such a distributed landscape, the network needs to transform fundamentally. There is a need for Networks to be agile, seamless, secure, and responsive to dynamic application landscapes.
- IoT and M2M integration with mainstream Networks: The exponential rise in the number of IoT devices worldwide highlights the need for smart Machine-to-Machine communication. This means the network must capably provide connectivity to all the IoT devices and integrate them smartly with mainstream networks.
- Pervasive Mobility: Owing to the anywhere data center and anywhere user access, there is a need for a robust network to allow users to access applications on Cloud. As anticipated, mobile users will continue to grow in the years to come and they would need round-the-clock high-performance connectivity to access applications on Cloud from private devices over Wi-Fi or 4G networks. Therefore, to cater to this rapidly growing mobile population, it becomes imperative to strengthen the Edge connectivity to these vast diverse, and distributed user base. Edge Transformation is predicted to be the next big wave in the Networking space. As per Gartner β by 2025, 75% of enterprise-generated data in industrial settings will be created and processed at the edge.
- Immersive video experience: User experience has taken the center stage in the digital era, therefore enterprises are keen to make the video experience more immersive. They have started leveraging the power of digital media technologies, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and immersive 3D environments to ensure a top-tier experience. This is placing greater demands on enterprise networks as video experience is totally dependent on low-latency and high availability infrastructure. Moreover, enterprises also want their networks to provide end-to-end bandwidth and dynamic performance controls to further make the experience more enriching.
New-age network architecture and design for Intelligent Network Services
In response to emerging trends and the fast-changing IT landscape, organizations need to rethink network architecture and design strategies to drive digital transformation. It becomes quite critical to align network capabilities in accordance with the changing business requirements and modern topologies. In this light, some of the expectations from Intelligent Network Services are the following:
- Support the fast-changing set of users, applications, devices, and services and unify them intelligently for top-tier user and application experience
- Seamlessly connect between distributed IT assets and applications in a DC and hybrid multi-cloud environment
- Leverage Software and other functionalities to control, rather than physical access and distributed policy control
- Leverage the cutting-edge technologies and algorithms to collect, assimilate, analyze, and visualize networking information in real time for better visibility and control
To achieve the above objectives, there are 3 broad aspects that the IT leaders must followΒ while designing and architecting the new-age network architecture.
Networking architecture for anywhere Data Center:
Organizations nowadays have their applications and data spread across Data Centers, Clouds, and Edge environments in diverse geographical regions. To meet the requirements of this diverse hybrid ICT landscape, organizations need new networking architecture that is ready for Cloud, meets application connectivity demands, and ensures technology and operational consistency across locations. Therefore, the new-age network must facilitate faster and safer modes of data transfer across Data Centers, Cloud, and Edge devices. This highlights the significance ofΒ Cloud-ready NetworksΒ with DC Interconnects and Cloud Connect capabilities.
Being a trusted ICT company, Sify ensures a Cloud-ready Network, comprising of Data Center Interconnects, Hyperscale Cloud Connects, and Internet Exchanges for carrier neutrality. Our Cloud-ready Network provides you with deterministic and secure connectivity to move applications, middleware, and database workloads between private infrastructure and Cloud for improved application performance.
Hybrid WAN and Application performance-focused Network Architecture:
In the age of hybrid and multi-cloud, it becomes critical for organizations to have a well-thought-out network strategy for distributed workloads, data footprints, applications, services, and microservices. With the rise in multi-cloud adoption, the legacy hub-and-spoke WAN architecture can hold organizations back. The shift from Data Centers towards Cloud has resulted in the more prevalent use of the SLA-defined Internet (in addition to MPLS) as a reliable and pervasive way to establish robust connectivity. Hence, modern-day businesses need a hybrid WAN strategy β the use of internet for business applications along with MPLS. This means the new-age network must enable the hybrid WAN and be smart enough to adapt to theΒ changing application performanceΒ demands in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment, ensuring better performance.
Herein,Β Software Defined NetworkingΒ can enable fundamental network transformation. SDN can help accomplish the goals of network transformation β agility, flexibility, and application centricity β by intelligently controlling the network architecture using software applications.
- Software Defined Networking facilitates flexible network architectures, which can utilize multiple network connectivity options (MPLS/ILL/BB/4G-LTE/Internet) which help leverage a Hybrid WAN strategy for the evolving DC and Cloud landscape
- SD-WAN ensures application awareness and complete visibility of site-wise utilization of various applications, which paves way for better performance, availability, and security.
- SD-WAN leverages the power of Cloud-based monitoring and management platform for centralized, real-time visibility of all resources.
- SD-WAN solutions can be easily integrated with legacy network architectures, which enable phase-wise migration of sites.
Sifyβs SD-WAN platform is hosted in Secure Cloud, and our experts perform all the monitoring and management functions from the state-of-the-art NOC. This helps you maintain distance with different configuration tasks at branch sites and focus on your core business. Our SD-WAN solutions β coupled with end-to-end Managed Network Services β drive efficiencies, reduce cost, and optimize multi-cloud connectivity.
Centralized visibility, control, and insights of the Network:
Organizations need complete visibility and control over network connectivity to make the most of their Cloud investment. They would also want their network to provide intelligent insights that enable data-driven decision-making. An intelligent network can help businesses with automated and effortless orchestration of network resources. However, enabling a network with comprehensive intelligence is not as simple as it seems, because it requires a well-established network management practice with well-integrated toolsets.
Currently, only a few network service providers, such as Sify Technologies, have the assets, capabilities, and expertise to deliver Intelligent Network Services. We ensure centralized management of the network, powered with the capacity of SDN, to bring in the highest level of visibility and control of the entire network landscape. We offer a comprehensive range of Network Management Services on flexible outcome-based models β shared NOC Services, Hybrid NOC Services, and Dedicated NOC Services β from our state-of-the-art Network Operating Center.
Sifyβs network experts ensure 24Γ7 proactive monitoring and management of network connectivity of devices such as routers, switches, and firewalls, and provide comprehensive reporting of various network parameters such as availability, performance, and security.
Conclusion
The emerging business and technology trends have compelled enterprises to empower their network with inherent intelligence built into them. This needs fundamental network transformation and re-architecting from the ground up, to suit evolving DC and Cloud landscape, distributed/mission-critical applications, and network orchestration needs.
Being a strategic network transformation partner, Sify helps you transform your network into a robust and intelligent asset. We provide Intelligent Network Services which include Cloud-ready Networks, Software-defined WAN, and centralized Network Managed Services, to accelerate your digital transformation with the robust foundation of a fast, secure, and future-ready network.
Simplified Cloud Adoption for SAP S/4HANA
Let Sify, your Cloud expert manage your SAP Migration
Every transformation journey begins with adoption of digital technologies on Cloud. Forward-looking organizations worldwide are looking for Cloud-powered solutions to attain the highest level of business agility, scalability, and compliance in the most cost-effective way. Additionally, Cloud-powered solutions facilitate access to new generation technologies, such as IoT, AI, and ML, which help you achieve your transformation goals in an outcome-focused manner.
SAP S/4HANA is a modern business solution suite that fosters intelligent innovations, business process improvement, and IT landscape transformation, without any upfront capital investment in infrastructure, database, hardware, etc. Moreover, it comes with pervasive data modelling capabilities and simplified deployment roadmap options.
Cloud adoption for SAP S/4HANA
Powered with Cloud and Analytics, SAP S/4HANA is undoubtedly a comprehensive, intelligent business suite delivering to organizations, unique insights, and intelligence. However, moving to SAP S/4HANA is not as simple as it may seem initially. It is dependent on your insight and capability to fundamentally examine your business processes, infrastructure, and data. Furthermore, you need to reconsider your business objectives and project priorities to achieve seamless migration to Cloud and realize all its benefits.
To evaluate how SAP S/4HANA can benefit your organization, it is always sensible to assess the consumption and configuration of your existing SAP environment. Subsequently, you need to create a migration to Cloud roadmap for seamless technical deployment, depending on project specific requirements, strategic transformation goals, etc.
Irrespective of the approach you choose, be it New Implementation or System Conversion, there are various advisory tools, such as Business Scenario Recommendations, Readiness Check Tool, etc. that can help you gain the necessary insight and confidence to simplify your move to SAP S/4HANA. After gaining clarity, you should continue forward with your S/4HANA adoption on Cloud in a phase-driven manner.
Five phases of successful SAPΒ S/4HANA Cloud journey
Re-evaluate your current stage and develop a vision:
Before you start your Cloud journey, answer the reasons behind it. You need to evaluate your current IT landscape, analyze your business strategy, consider cross-functional dependencies, and develop a strategic vision before moving to SAP S/4HANA. Herein, Business Scenario Recommendations (BSR) for SAP S/4HANA can help you generate a comprehensive report on how your current system would be impacted and how you should prepare adeptly to derive true value propositions.
Explore the value of SAP S/4HANA:
Once you have evaluated your business landscape, you must start exploring all the value propositions of SAP S/4HANA that can help you transform the overall IT landscape and improve business processes. Mapping key business functions is yet another major area you need to consider while analyzing the values of SAP S/4HANA. SAP Innovation & Optimization Pathfinder can help you analyze all the business improvement opportunities. It also provides rich analysis of innovation recommendations, innovation acceleration, and IT optimization.
Future State Design:
During this phase, you need to start focusing on the technical aspects of your migrating specific parts of your IT landscape or processes to SAP S/4HANA. It is always advisable to define processes and IT landscape that you think are suitable for SAP S/4HANA in order to devise a future-ready migration layout. During this phase, organizations count on different tools such as Readiness Check and Maintenance Planner. Readiness Check highlights the required solution adjustments that are needed for system conversion. Maintenance Planner generates the stack file online from SAP marketplace, which is required to download the SAP S/4HANA software.
Migration and roadmap:
Before the transition begins, you need to outline clearly defined migration strategies to identify, evaluate and select the best migration scenario. To attain seamless transformation and successful SAP S/4HANA migration, you must define the strategy that best suits your vision depending on your current IT stage.
Plan S/4HANA Implementation:
The actual transition begins in this phase, and you must embrace a high-level project management approach to successfully migrate to SAP S/4HANA. As majority of organizations lack technical skill, competence, and expertise to implement such a project, it makes good business sense to collaborate with an expert.
Why Sify for SAP migration, infrastructure, and management?
It is important not to get overwhelmed by the adoption complexity, as finding the right partner will alleviate most of your concerns. Sify has a rich experience and all the state-of-the-art tools required for successfully migrating heterogeneous or homogeneous SAP workloads and managing them.
Sify provides you the option of choosing the most appropriate environment for your SAP workloads. You can host your SAP workloads on HANA grid (which is certified by SAP) on Sifyβs proprietary Cloud β CloudInfinit. You also have the choice of deploying it on a Hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, etc.) with DR on Sifyβs SAP grid or vice versa to leverage the benefits of Hybrid Cloud. Furthermore, we hold a distinct level of specialization in ECC to S/4HANA conversions, implementation and carve out scenarios. Sifyβs integrated play across Network, Cloud and SAP ensures that you get flexibility, agility, and choice for comprehensive coverage of all your SAP needs.
Snapshot of Sifyβs SAP offerings
Sify Technologies Breaks Into the top 500 of Fortune India Ranking
The prestigious list ranks Indian companies according to size and performance
Chennai, 14 December 2020 βΒ Sify Technologies LimitedΒ (NASDAQ: SIFY), Indiaβs leading Digital ICT solutions provider with global service capabilities spanning Data Center, Cloud, Networks, Security, and Digital services announced today that it has entered the iconic Fortune India 500 list.
The companyβs consistent growth over the past decade has catapulted it into the ranks of the Top 500 this year. Sify was previously ranked among the Top 50 in Fortune Indiaβs βThe Next 500β ranking in 2018.
The Fortune India 500 is an annual ranking published by Fortune magazine and is the definitive list of the top 500 corporations nationwide. This list is compiled on the basis of the companyβs latest sales and gross revenue figures.
“While we are delighted with this recognition, we view this as a further acknowledgment of our progress in becoming Indiaβs most relevant Digital Transformation player. Β We are particularly pleased to reach this milestone amidst the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic.Β Achieving this ranking is a testimony to our peopleβs commitment and our robust business continuity processes, which have enabled us to grow through this challenging period. This recognition would not have been possible without the dedication of every one of our team members.” saidΒ Mr. Raju Vegesna, Chairman.
Mr. Kamal Nath,Β CEO, said “Over the years, we have built a unique Digital ICT eco-system for Indian Enterprises which has gained increasing relevance to our clientsβ Digital Transformation pursuits. While our own growth has been propelled by ourΒ cloud@coreΒ products and service model, our greatest pride has been the ability to help our customers grow and succeed in the digital age. I congratulate every team member who has been part of this growth journey for both Sify and its clients.”
About Sify Technologies
A Fortune India 500 company, Sify Technologies is Indiaβs 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.
Sifyβs infrastructure comprising 10 top-of-the-line DCs, a multi-flavored Cloud platform, the largest domestic MPLS network, partnership with global technology majors, and vast expertise in business transformation solutions make it the first choice of start-ups, incoming Enterprises, and even large Enterprises on the verge of a revamp,
More than 10000 businesses across multiple verticals have taken advantage of our unassailable combination of Data Centers, Enterprise-class Multi-Cloud Platform, Networks, and Security services and conduct their business seamlessly from more than 1600 cities in India. Internationally, Sify has a presence across North America, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.
Sify,Β www.sify.com, Sify Technologies, andΒ www.sifytechnologies.comΒ are registered trademarks of Sify Technologies Limited.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of SectionΒ 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and SectionΒ 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.Β 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.
For a discussion of the risks associated with Sifyβs business, please see the discussion under the caption βRisk Factorsβ in the companyβs Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2020, which has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and is available by accessing the database maintained by the SEC atΒ www.sec.gov, and Sifyβs other reports filed with the SEC.
For further information, please contact:
Sify Technologies Limited
Mr. Praveen Krishna
Investor Relations & Public Relations
+91 44 22540777 (ext.2055)
Migration to Oracle Cloud: common pitfalls and best practices
Count on Sify to accomplish your migration goals
Enterprises worldwide are in a quest to leverage the true potential of the Cloud. As Cloud allows organizations to unify disparate business functions, streamline processes, enhance organizational efficiency, achieve resilience, and control cost, decision-makers across the business world are looking for the most suitable Cloud and a competent Cloud partner.
Herein, Oracle Cloud has certainly been able to garner attention by helping organizations optimize IT infrastructure, achieve operational excellence, and reduce cost significantly. Oracle ensures a very unique value proposition as it uses the same on-premises products and tools for Cloud. It is built from on-prem deployments, unlike other Cloud providers which started with a Cloud-native approach only. As organizations transition their processes, business functions, or implement a complete transformation to the Cloud, the βintegrationβ between different Cloud and on-premise enterprise applications will be the focus. We know that not all enterprise applications will migrate to the Cloud at the same time, therefore it is imperative that existing on-premise integration is utilized to communicate between the on-premise applications and the Cloud applications via a common cloud integration platform. In such a situation, Oracle certainly ensures distinct advantages.
Oracle is the only cloud provider to offer guaranteed availability, management, and performance SLAs. Moreover, it also ensures greater control and visibility of Cloud resources, which further helps in improving top-line business performance. Thatβs why organizations are keen to migrate to Oracle Cloud.
However, organizations face distinct challenges and complications while executing the migration plan. As we work with organizations (across verticals) for their Cloud transition or migration projects, we have gained expertise in helping them identify all pitfalls and follow a trusted approach to create and implement successful migration to Oracle Cloud.
This blog highlights the major challenges faced by organizations during their migration journey to Oracle Cloud and the best practices to tackle those challenges. Furthermore, we shall discuss how Oracle Cloud, Sifyβs hybrid IT-ready data centers (with Cloud Adjacent and Near Cloud data centers), and Network Services can help you accomplish your Cloud transformation goals competently.
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CHALLENGE: Not every workload is Cloud-ready for Lift-N-Shift |
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BEST PRACTICE: De-couple the workloads into different categories |
Itβs a well-known fact that not all workloads can be migrated to Cloud using the same migration strategies. Therefore, Sify has come up with a comprehensive range of Cloud Assessment Services which help you decouple the workloads into two broad categories β the workload that must be migrated to Oracle Cloud and the workloads that can be hosted in Sifyβs Hybrid IT-ready DC. This will help you draft the most appropriate and cost-effective Cloud adoption/migration plan.
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CHALLENGE: Inter-dependency between applications |
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BEST PRACTICE: Build migration specific business case for each application |
Sifyβs Cloud Assessment and Migration Services help you identify inter-dependency between applications and build migration specific business case considering each application. Our Hybrid IT-ready data centers allow you to establish fast and secure interconnection among all your applications hosted in Oracle Cloud, without any network latency issue.
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CHALLENGE: How to deal with legacy applications |
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BEST PRACTICE: Leverage Cloud Integration Platforms for hybrid deployments |
As all enterprise applications cannot be migrated to Cloud due to architectures, dependencies, and cost, there needs to be effective integration between legacy and cloud applications. Sify is uniquely positioned not just with the ability to meet Network SLAs but also with the ability to design, implement and manage hybrid deployments with legacy on-premise applications and the Cloud applications, via a common Cloud integration platform leveraging Oracle technologies.
Count on Sify for a successful migration to Oracle Cloud
Sify complements Oracleβs public Cloud portfolio with its expansive service portfolio encompassing data center services, migration and assessment services, telecom, and managed services. This offers customers a holistic value proposition for their Cloud journey which no other service provider can offer.
With the Oracle Cloud data center co-located with us, Sify is in a unique position to offer customers the advantages of Oracle public Cloud and co-location of partial workloads from the same premises which are interconnected through a high speed, low latency, and highly secure βFastConnectβ link. This allows customers to go for their own hybrid data centers without having to worry about latency issues.
With our cloud@core strategy, Hybrid IT-ready Data Centers and Network Services offering <1ms latency for Hybrid deployments, we are the only Cloud Transformation partner that can help you leverage the true potential of hybrid Cloud. Our Hyperscale Cloud and Data Center Services, low latency, high bandwidth, and secure connections to Oracle Cloud ensure better performance at predictable costs. Moreover, our team of competent Cloud experts and Oracle-certified solution architects are willing to offer prescriptive guidance at every stage of your Cloud adoption and transformation, to help you achieve your Oracle migration goals.
Consolidate your Network with Sify
Rationalize, Scale, and Manage your network effortlessly.
In todayβs technologically advanced era, enterprises across realms have complex ICT environments β virtual and geographically spread. The advent of Cloud and rise of multiple solution providers globally have encouraged organizations to pick and choose the perfect mix to host their applications, servers, and data across a diverse landscape of Data Centers and multiple clouds. This has benefitted organizations worldwide, in terms of ease of operations, higher level of flexibility and better speed to market. However, at the same time, one must acknowledge that management of such a highly complex ICT environment has become a major challenge for many organizations in the digital era.
Organizations must understand that all the components of their diverse IT and network infrastructure β consisting of applications, servers, machines, network peripheral equipment, sensors, or even distinct Cloud environments β are not discrete or isolated units anymore, but a part of a larger organization context, making them extremely valuable for business progression and business continuity. All these components must be unified and viewed in a consolidated way for better performance and security.Β Thatβs where, Network Consolidation becomes imperative!
Organizations that have complex ICT environments face distinct challenges that hamper their overall performance and efficiency. Some of the most common challenges in this changing and ever evolving Network and IT environment are:
- Multiple service providers management: Modern enterprises leverage a perfect blend of best-of-breed network solutions from distinct service providers as this ensures advantages of redundancy, resiliency, choice of network media, and connectivity to remote locations. However, managing all the distinct service providers is quite a challenging task and has some inherent problems, such as lack of ownership and visibility, inconsistency in services, inability to leverage analytics, and governance related risks.
- Limited in-house network management capabilities: This is another major concern for organizations across industry verticals. If they opt for establishing an in-house network management setup, then it becomes a very cost-intensive decision to hire the skilled workforce, procure the technology, develop the competence, and achieve a high level of scalability. Furthermore, an in-house setup would need hefty and timely investments to keep pace with evolving technology landscape.
- The demand for constantly re-architecting network: Every enterprise network nowadays has a host of different applications, which has given rise to changed traffic patterns. These mission-critical applications demand uninterrupted collaboration and traffic exchange, which calls for a continuous re-architecting of network to connect data, applications, people, and varied components of the IT infrastructure.
- Shift of focus from Network uptime to Application performance: Traditionally, network has always been uptime-focused, however in current situation where applications are hosted in multiple of Data Centers, Public & Pvt Clouds, businesses are more concerned about how applications perform over the network as this directly impacts the end user experience. The changing demands of high-performance computing and fast cloud migrations have led to a change in paradigm for networks with their SLAs being evaluated on Application intent rather than Network intent. Therefore, new-age networks must capably meet the rising needs of all mission-critical applications that are running concurrently.
- Unification of underlay and overlay networks: To meet changing demands of businesses, networks have grown and evolved organically over different periods of time. This has resulted in complex architectures of underlay & overlay networks. With changing priorities of organizations and rise of application-focused networks, it is important to unify the underlay and overlay networks for optimal utilization, enhanced efficiency, improved user experience, and robust security.
- Connectivity across DC and Cloud landscape: With increased Cloud adoption, it is very important to maintain a perfect sync between data centers and Cloud. Therefore, they need an excellent Network Interconnection that can guarantee seamless connectivity across all the data centers, Cloud environments, international cable landing stations, third party telco infrastructure, etc. for deterministic connectivity and extensive reach.
- Integration of IT, OT, and People: Majority of organizations nowadays have geographically distributed offices, where employees and end users use multiple devices in different regions. It is important to allow them secure and fast access to applications in Cloud and data centers for better experience, collaboration, and organizational efficiency. At the same time, the same Network must ensure seamless connectivity of IT Infrastructure as well as OT assets like WiFi access points, IoT devices and sensors. Herein, network plays an important role in integration of all aspects of IT, OT, and people.
As discussed above, organizations with complex ICT environments face distinct challenges. This not only hampers efficiency and performance but also impacts end user experience, hence compelling organizations to revisit their network strategies. Enterprises want actionable information to be available to end users wherever they are. The rise in mobility and multitude of devices has paved way for direct access to corporate information, which highlights the need of secure and consolidated network which can be scaled rapidly on-demand. The CIOs need to have complete visibility of all network assets and take decisions on network performance and network behavior dynamically. This can be achieved only through network consolidation.
Consolidating your network under one trusted service provider will ensure you a centralized real-time visibility and control over your entire network. Network consolidation improves network performance management and makes network provisioning easier with lesser handoff points between providers, devices, and IT assets, at a reduced cost!
Network consolidation becomes a very complex task and it has a lot of parameters and moving parts to be looked into. Therefore, it is imperative to seek an expert guidance in this quest.
Sify can help you accomplish your Network Consolidation goals. Some of the key differentiators that make us the preferred network consolidation partner are:
- Hybrid Network Strategy β Use of Internet for Business Applications:Β The shift from data centers towards Cloud has resulted in more prevalent use of the Internet as a connectivity option, in addition to MPLS. Today, an SLA-defined Internet strategy is a more reliable and pervasive way to establish a robust connectivity throughout the widely spread ICT environment. Hence, modern day businesses need hybrid WAN strategy β use of internet for business applications along with MPLS. Sify is empowered with Indiaβs largest MPLS Network covering 1,600 towns and cities across India with 3,100 Points of Presence. We provide consistent, secure, high-speed Internet connectivity in more than 130 countries together with 800+ local and global partners. With our robust MPLS and Internet services, we can help you consolidate your network for both primary and secondary connectivity needs.
- Cloud Ready Networks β Advantage Hyper-scale:Β As majority of modern enterprises opt for hybrid or multi-cloud model, enterprises need ubiquitous connectivity to data centers and public Clouds. Sifyβs robust interconnection network helps enterprises connect and integrate with Hyper-scalers seamlessly to simplify Cloud connectivity and reduce provisioning time. Our interconnection network improves cross-cloud application interaction, performance, and scalability, which ultimately paves way for enhanced quality of experience. Sify enjoys a great stature in the India Cloud market as we are the preferred partner of all major Hyper-scalers such as AWS, Azure, Oracle, and GCP including their respective Cloud connect services. With our Cloud connect, DC Interconnects and carrier neutral network with multiple internet exchanges, we deliver a well-architected and cost-effective Cloud-ready network for a secure, low latency and deterministic connectivity.
- Strategic Move from Wireless to Wireline Connectivity Media β More relevant than ever:Β Today, convergence of wireless and wireline is happening at a lightening pace. Till now, fiber penetration was restricted to backbone networks in the network value chain; however, as we move to the hyper-connected era, networks fiberization becomes important for the increasing cloud adoption. Therefore, Sify has invested in dense fiberization in backhaul and last mile connectivity. Sifyβs state of the art 100G ethernet infrastructure β Metro-XConnect integrates multiple Clouds, our Cloud-adjacent data centers, third party data centers, and transit points in the Network. Our investments into Metro-XConnect can help customers consolidate their networks and leverage multiple benefits of Cloud, such as low latency, high reliability, improved scalability, and uninterrupted operations.
- Strong Managed Services and Network Operations Outsourcing capabilities:Β Empowered with strong Managed Services and Network Operations Outsourcing capabilities, Sify can help you integrate, consolidate, and transform your networks across varied ICT environments for visibility, control, and easy orchestration. Our integrated skillsets, processes, toolsets as well as the state-of-the-art Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations Centre (SOC) can enable you to monitor and manage network and security devices comprehensively. Our NOC services are SLA-driven and outcome-based, which ensures predictable performance. Sify also helps in assessing & consolidating WAN networks; redesigning & reengineering as-is WAN network; and managing Network and Network assets 24X7. Additionally, you can outsource your Network operations and management, including management of all service providers and vendors.
- Integrated capabilities across Core, Management Layer, and Edge :Β In the digital age, enterprises need to focus on faster compute and Edge connectivity. To accomplish this goal, it is important to transform and rearchitect your network β at the core, the management & visibility layer, and the Edge. With our DC and Cloud Interconnects, combined with expertise to deploy technologies like SDWAN and NFV, we hold expertise in network transformation at the core. At the Network Management layer, Sify can manage your WAN, provide 24Γ7 monitoring of links, undertake network management under a unified SLA across multiple service providers. At the Edge, Sify ensures end to end implementation and access configuration of Wi-Fi, IoT devices and integration with the Enterprise Network.
Sify Technologies announces expanded Cloud offerings with Oracle FastConnect
Enterprises can now easily connect from 53 data centers or their offices in over 1600 cities
INDIA, Sep 09, 2020 βΒ Sify Technologies LimitedΒ (NASDAQ: SIFY), one of Β Indiaβs most comprehensive ICT solutions provider with global service capabilities spanning Networks, Data Centers, Cloud, Applications Management, Managed Services, and Systems integration, and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) today announced the availability ofΒ Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnectΒ at their Rabale Data Center in Mumbai.
SifyβsΒ GlobalCloudConnect (GCC) platform will now offer secure, deterministic network connectivity services to Oracle Cloud in India. Through collaboration with Sify, Oracle customers benefit from reliable network access to their cloud data and applications from India. This means improved performance, enhanced control, flexibility, and scalability that can provide access to critical business data and functions.
Sify also announced the availability of Metro-XConnect service between the Airoli and Rabale based facilities. The Metro-XConnect service provides customers at the Airoli site with access to network resources, including Oracle FastConnect, with near-zero latency at local cross-connect economics. The launch of the Metro-XConnect service is designed to act as a catalyst to accelerate the deployment of hybrid multi-cloud environments.
Oracle Cloud customers can also utilize Sifyβs Datacenter Interconnect services, which provide cutting-edge performance for mission-critical and low-latency/high-availability sensitive applications. This service is offered from 53 data centers in the country, including 10 of Sifyβs own carrier-neutral colocation facilities.
With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, customers benefit from best-in-class security, consistent high performance, simple predictable pricing, and the tools and expertise needed to bring enterprise workloads to the cloud quickly and efficiently.
Commenting on the launch,Β Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies, said βThe launch of Oracle FastConnect and Metro-XConnect services provides customers with the option of co-locating in a cloud-adjacent data center to build a unique hybrid multi-cloud environment, particularly in the context of Oracle workloads. The unique technical and commercials benefits of these solutions will provide our customers with a very compelling Total Cost of Ownership for their IT landscape.
“Security and cost management remain top concerns for enterprises as they continue to move their data, applications, and workloads to the cloud,” saidΒ Ross Brown, vice president, Go-to-Market, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect addresses both concerns by providing dedicated, private connectivity that does not traverse the public Internet β all for a fraction of the competition.”
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect provides dedicated connectivity to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and other Oracle Cloud services. FastConnect provides an easy, elastic, and economical way to create a dedicated and private connection with higher bandwidth options and a more reliable and consistent networking experience versus public internet-based connections.
Specifically architected to meet the needs of the enterprise, Oracle Cloud is an enterprise cloud that delivers powerful compute and networking performance and a comprehensive portfolio of infrastructure and platform cloud services from application development and business analytics to data management, integration, security, artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain. With unique architecture and capabilities, Oracle Cloud delivers unmatched security, performance, and cost savings. Oracle Cloud is the only cloud-built to runΒ Oracle Autonomous Database, the industry’s first and only self-driving database.
Write toΒ gccenquiries@sifycorp.comΒ to know further about this service.
About Sify Technologies
Sify Technologies is Indiaβs 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.
Sifyβs infrastructure comprising the largest MPLS network, top-of-the-line DCs, partnership with global technology majors, vast expertise in business transformation solutions modeled on the cloud make it the first choice of start-ups, incoming Enterprises and even large Enterprises on the verge of a revamp,
More than 10000 businesses across multiple verticals have taken advantage of our unassailable trinity of Data Centers, Networks, and Security services and conduct their business seamlessly from more than 1600 cities in India. Internationally, Sify has a presence across North America, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.
Sify,Β www.sify.com, Sify Technologies, andΒ www.sifytechnologies.comΒ are registered trademarks of Sify Technologies Limited.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of SectionΒ 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and SectionΒ 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.Β 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.
For a discussion of the risks associated with Sifyβs business, please see the discussion under the caption βRisk Factorsβ in the companyβs Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2020, which has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and is available by accessing the database maintained by the SEC atΒ www.sec.gov,Β and Sifyβs other reports filed with the SEC.
About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracleβs partner program designed to enable partners to accelerate the transition to the cloud and drive superior customer business outcomes. The OPN program allows partners to engage with Oracle through track(s) aligned to how they go to market: Cloud Build for partners that provide products or services built on or integrated with Oracle Cloud; Cloud Sell for partners that resell Oracle Cloud technology; Cloud Service for partners that implement, deploy and manage Oracle Cloud Services; and License & Hardware for partners that build, service or sell Oracle software licenses or hardware products. Customers can expedite their business objectives with OPN partners who have achieved Expertise in a product family or cloud service.Β To learn more visit:Β http://www.oracle.com/partnernetwork
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Sify Partners with Commvault to Provide Unified Data Protection across Multi-Cloud Environments
The partnership is to provide Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS)
Chennai, India, Sep 03, 2020:Β Sify Technologies LimitedΒ (NASDAQ: SIFY), Indiaβs most comprehensive ICT solutions provider with global service capabilities spanning Networks, Data Centers, Cloud, Applications Management, Managed Services, and Systems integration, announced its partnership with Commvault, a leading data protection platform provider, to provide Data Protection as a Service. This partnership will enable Sify to manage cross-platform backup and recovery operations across data centers with a scaled-down team and thereby lower the service delivery cost up to 30%.
Sify Technologies provides a comprehensive range of cloud services across platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, etc. through its 10 data centers. Additionally, Sify now aims to provide Data Protection as a Service, by adopting Commvaultβs reliable and scalable, βBackup & RecoveryβΒ solution as a unified data protection system for multiple platforms. With this partnership, Sify can ensureΒ long-term data retention, quick data replication, cross-platform backup migration, superior deduplicationΒ with a single tool/platform.
With Commvaultβs in-built interface, Sifyβs customers can easily manage cross-platform backup migrations via one console. With the superior deduplication feature, enterprises can compress data and reduce their storage size significantly in the data center without any third-party solutions. Commvault also integrates seamlessly with third-party tools like ServiceNow ITSM, giving customers the ability to generate self-provisioning reports and monitor their backup operations at any time.
Commenting on the partnership, Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies, said, “The current situation has triggered the need for secure and agile IT infrastructure for enterprises. Customer Data security is a top priority for us at Sify and with Commvault, we now have a competitive edge to provide data protection across platforms. With this partnership, we aim to provide enterprises a one-stop solution with end-to-end IT support translating to minimize disruption.”
Commenting on the partnership,Β Ravi Maguluri, CTO, Cloud services, Sify Technologies, said,Β “Commvaultβs reputation in the field of Data security and their experience of having worked across divergent landscapes and verticals was the driver in the decision making for a partner. This partnership aims to substantially lower the service delivery cost while raising the benchmark on Data protection.”
We are excited to support Sify Technologies, a technology pioneer in India, as they deliver data protection to their customers with Commvault functionality. This is a new era for Commvault and weβre rapidly innovating to help our partners and customers simplify IT with enterprise-class, proven data protection solutions delivered through SaaS and protected in the cloud.β saidΒ Ramesh Mamgain, Area Vice President β India & SAARC, Commvault.
About Sify Technologies
Sify Technologies is Indiaβs most comprehensive ICT service & solution provider. With Cloud at the core of our solutions portfolio, Sify is focused on the changing ICT requirements of the emerging digital economy and the resultant demands from large, medium, and small-sized businesses.
Sifyβs infrastructure comprising the largest MPLS network, top-of-the-line DCs, partnership with global technology majors, and vast expertise in business transformation solutions modeled on the cloud, make it the first choice of start-ups, incoming enterprises, and even large Enterprises on the verge of a revamp.
More than 10000 businesses across multiple verticals have taken advantage of Sifyβs unassailable trinity of Data Centers, Networking, and Security services and conduct their business seamlessly from more than 1600 cities in India. Internationally, Sify has a presence across North America, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.
Sify,Β www.sify.com, Sify Technologies, andΒ www.sifytechnologies.comΒ are registered trademarks of Sify Technologies Limited.
About Commvault:
Commvault is a worldwide leader in delivering data readiness, enabling customers to intelligently manage data with solutions that store, protect, optimize, and use data. Commvault software automates mind-numbing IT tasks and makes data work harder for customersβ so they can gain invaluable insights for their businesses. Commvault solutions work across cloud and on-premises environments, leveraging the digital tools and procedures already in use. Commvault software, solutions, and services are available from the company and through a global ecosystem of trusted partners. Commvault employs more than 2,300 highly-skilled individuals across markets worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in the United States. Visit Commvault.com or follow us at @Commvault
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For a discussion of the risks associated with Sifyβs business, please see the discussion under the caption βRisk Factorsβ in the companyβs Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2020, which has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and is available by accessing the database maintained by the SEC atΒ www.sec.gov, and Sifyβs other reports filed with the SEC.
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Sify Technologies enhances iTest platform with Remote Proctoring Solution from TALVIEW
Chennai, India, June 29, 2020:Β Sify Technologies LimitedΒ (NASDAQ: SIFY), Indiaβs most comprehensive ICT solutions provider with global service capabilities spanning domestic and international Telecom Networks, Data Centers, Cloud, Applications, Managed Services, and Systems integration, announced their partnership withΒ Talview, an AI-enabled Talent Assessment technology provider, to integrate Remote Proctoring Solutions with its iTest platform. This integration with Talviewβs proctoring solution, Proview, will ensure authentic invigilation of online assessments held remotely.
Sifyβs iTest is a platform providing end-to-end admission, recruitment & assessment engine. iTest has the capability of providing a safe & secure testing environment in both LAN-based and internet-based settings. In just the last year, iTest has hosted approximately 4 million assessments online.
Talviewβs Proctoring Solution, Proview, will enable iTest with powerful features such as live and automated remote proctoring that uses AI-powered facial recognition to detect impersonation, browser policing, real-time alerts, activity log to inspect suspicious activities, and more.
“Outbreak of COVID-19 has given a definitive surge to the online examination software market and has increased the need for advanced proctoring solutions. Remote proctoring offers a series of advantages over the traditional online examination method. Our iTest platform will come equipped with this AI-based proctoring solution to ensure the quality and integrity of exams and candidates during the remote examination. With this integration, iTest can now create a biometric record of the candidate, track their movements across multiple browser windows and for every session, and flag other suspicious activities like copy-paste in real-time. The solution is designed to work in a low bandwidth environment making it the perfect solution for the current situation,” saidΒ Kamal Nath, Chief Executive Officer, Sify Technologies Limited.
With the integration of iTest and Proview, examiners can now benefit from various advanced features:
The AI-enabledΒ online proctoring solution, available in automated modeΒ monitors suspicious activity using advanced video and audio analytics. It ensures the candidate focuses only on the test screen; monitors the light and other factors in the room; checks for suspicious actions & objects and background voice activity; and watches the browser window to detect changes. Adding to the automated module is theΒ LiveΒ remote proctored solution that deploys trained resources in conjunction with the automated proctoring to offer a solution that gives an exam body the confidence to deliver exams in a remote manner.
The exam administrator can alsoΒ monitor the online testΒ from their preferred locations. A detailed log of browser activity and audio-visual responses of the candidate is provided, and the AI sensors disable the candidatesβ facility to copy/paste answers. Real-time access restriction ensures the examiner can take action immediately if a candidate is using any fraudulent means. Real-time recording of usersβ actions facilitates secure and authentic online tests. The recorded streams can be stored and viewed for up to six months.
The proctoring solution comes with advancedΒ facial recognitionΒ features that ensure that the candidate is the original person taking the exam. Using an advanced algorithm in Machine Learning, it provides a confidence score to help ensure a match, and Two-Factor Authentication process that avoids fraudulent activity by quickly restricting test access.
Along with automated proctoring, facial recognition, and live monitoring, the solution also provides analytics on user behavior and user actions. It also offers browser patrolling and real-time communication via ChatBot and configurable alerts to avoid fraudulent activities during tests.
Commenting on this partnership,Β Sanjoe Jose, CEO, Talview,Β said,Β “Sify is a pioneer in the online assessments market and we are glad to be partnering with a player who has in-depth knowledge of the existing demand. Our AI tools are built on the foundation of years of assessing candidates in a virtual environment. Our combined solution will help the target customers to administer secure exams at scale with best in class test-taker experience.”
Key Benefits of Integration of iTest and Proview:
- Live Monitoring
- Automated Online Proctoring
- Facial Recognition
- Automated Analysis
- Browser Patrolling
- Access Restriction
- Low Bandwidth Ready
- Less Intrusive
- Real-Time Communication
AboutΒ Talview
Launched in 2017, Talview’s AI-powered candidate experience platform is the fastest way to remotely screen, interview, and test top talent and students. Our chatbot, live and asynchronous video interviewing, assessments, and remote proctoring solutions use advanced NLP and AI technology to empower our clients to select high-quality applicants anytime, anywhere, and administer tests and exams securely. With our 100% mobile experience, you can easily automate routine tasks, build talent pools, and integrate data seamlessly into your ATS or LMS.
About Sify Technologies
Sify Technologies is Indiaβs most comprehensive ICT service & solution provider. With Cloud at the core of our solutions portfolio, Sify is focused on the changing ICT requirements of the emerging digital economy and the resultant demands from large, mid, and small-sized businesses.
Sifyβs infrastructure comprising the largest MPLS network, top-of-the-line DCs, partnership with global technology majors, and vast expertise in business transformation solutions modeled on the cloud makes it the first choice of start-ups, incoming enterprises and even large domestic Enterprises on the verge of a revamp.
More than 10000 businesses across multiple verticals have taken advantage of Sifyβs unassailable trinity of Data Centers, Networking and Security services, and conduct their business seamlessly from more than 1600 cities in India. Internationally, Sify has a presence across North America, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.
Sify,Β www.sify.com, Sify Technologies, andΒ www.sifytechnologies.comΒ are registered trademarks of Sify Technologies Limited.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of SectionΒ 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and SectionΒ 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.Β 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.
For a discussion of the risks associated with Sifyβs business, please see the discussion under the caption βRisk Factorsβ in the companyβs Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2019, which has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and is available by accessing the database maintained by the SEC atΒ www.sec.gov, and Sifyβs other reports filed with the SEC.
For further information, please contact:
Sify Technologies Limited
Praveen Krishna
Investor Relations & Public Relations
+91 44 22540777 (ext.2055)
praveen.krishna@sifycorp.com
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Nikhila Kesavan
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nikhila.kesavan@2020msl.com
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