Sify Technologies announces the launch of GPU Cloud Sify CloudInfinit<sup>+AI</sup>
Chennai, India, September 02, 2024: Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: SIFY), Indiaβs leading Digital ICT solutions provider with global service capabilities spanning data center, cloud, networks, security and digital services, today announced it has become an NVIDIA colocation partner with the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program, certified for liquid cooling.
Sify leverages Aquila Clouds FinOps on its CloudInfinit Platform
SAN RAMON, Calif.,Β Sept. 13, 2022Β /PRNewswire/ —Β Sify Technologies LimitedΒ (NASDAQ:Β SIFY),Β India’sΒ leading Digital ICT solutions provider with global service capabilities spanning Data Center, Cloud, Networks, Security and Digital services, andΒ 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-leadingΒ FinOpsΒ 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,” saidΒ 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 itsΒ BillOpsΒ 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 thatΒ Aquila CloudsΒ FinOps solution has been included to power Sify’s CloudInfinit FinOps offering,” saidΒ Desmond Chan, co-founder, and CPO atΒ 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 isΒ India’sΒ 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.Β
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 acrossΒ North America, theΒ United Kingdom, andΒ Singapore. Sify,Β www.sify.com, Sify Technologies, andΒ www.sifytechnologies.comΒ 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%.
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Sify Technologies Limited
Mr. Praveen Krishna
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Flexible engagement model improves revenue
Indiaβs largest power utility company scales its billing application to 25+ million consumers on Sifyβs CloudInfinit solutionβ
Project Objective
Implement a future-ready unified billing application on cloud for metering, billing and collection Services for over 25 million consumers
Project Model
Outcome-based model (vis-Γ -vis existing capex + services model)
Sifyβs Uniqueness
Integrated value proposition built on private cloud, end-to-end connectivity, network security, back-up and disaster recovery from different seismic zone.
Integrated Value and Outcome
cloud@coreTM products and services:
- Web-based billing application moved to cloud – Provisioning and management of private cloud with HA and DR to host centralized billing system ββ
- Built Backup and DR platform in compliance with regulatory policies applicable for electricity billing data
- DC and DR in different seismic zone β
- Provided charge per bill/ transaction basis billing system
- Sify executed the project through assessment and implementation services within stipulated timelines.β
Value for client
- Reduction in meter-to-cash cycle time, outstanding dues resulting in increased cash flow
- Improvement in revenue and reduction in AT&C lossβ
- Accurate consumer information on usage and payment trends and patternsββ
- Improved operation efficiency and customer satisfactionβ
Embrace the Hybrid Cloud with VMC on AWS
According to Gartner, most of the midsize and enterprise customers will be adopting multi or hybrid cloud services. Companies have already realized that in order to move to the public cloud, it is important to structure workload in a hybrid cloud model.
Companies must understand that hybrid IT is not an easy methodology and therefore they must organize their existing IT resources and application workloads both on-premises and in public cloud efficiently to accomplish the goals of hybrid model. Additionally, they must also look for the right skills for different private/public clouds and different sets of tools from respective cloud and hybrid cloud managed services providers.
At Sify, we define some guidelines and structures to right-fit your workloads in the hybrid cloud. Please read on to know how Sify can help customers identify the right cloud (from the set of appropriate private and/or hosted private cloud services) for different sets of workloads.
Learn why we are one of the most trusted providers of hybrid cloud managed services globally. Read about our hybrid cloud managed services offering to know more.
Unique Challenges in Hybrid Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Services
In hybrid cloud, there are some unique challenges that businesses need to address first. Key challenges that need to be addressed while designing solutions on Hybrid Cloud are mentioned herein.
- Generally, it is very difficult to identify the most suitable cloud environment and manage the cost of different clouds.
- Though all cloud environments are powerful in providing features like scalability and elasticity, however the process of managing a hybrid cloud is quite a complex task.
- Security Risks: The threat of data breach or data loss is perhaps the biggest challenge faced during hybrid cloud adoption. Generally, companies prefer on-premises private clouds to protect data locally. However, in order to ensure top-tier security of data and applications on hybrid cloud, companies must draft robust data protection policies and procedures.
How can you migrate your workloads seamlessly to hybrid cloud? Read about our cloud migration services and hybrid cloud managed services offering to know how we can help.
Identify Applications for Hybrid Cloud
It is very important to identify applications for hybrid cloud, and your decision must be based on applicationβs architecture, behavior and user accessibility. Below are some key points to remember while designing an effective hybrid cloud strategy: β
- Consider the compatibility of applications before deciding whether you want to continue running the applications in an on-prem cloud environment or migrate them to Public Cloud.
- Identify the running cost/budget for an application and compare it with different cloud providers to choose the most suitable cloud platform that suits your budgetary outlines and business requirements.
- Pay due attention to licensing requirements before migrating to Public/Private Cloud because a minor loophole in this aspect can have a major impact on the overall business.
- Relook experience of existing IT teams to manage different Private/Public clouds seamlessly.
Not sure how to take the first step? Connect with us to explore our proven capabilities in hybrid cloud services, cloud migration services and hybrid cloud managed services. Click here.
Why VMC on AWS as Hybrid Cloud Choice?
VMware Cloud (also called as VMC) on AWS brings VMwareβs enterprise-class Software-Defined DataΒ CentreΒ software to the AWS Cloud and enables customers to run production applications across VMware vSphere-based private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, with optimized access to AWS services.
AWS is VMwareβs preferred public cloud partner for all vSphere-based workloads.Β The VMware and AWS partnership delivers a faster, easier, and cost-effective path to the hybrid cloud while allowing customers to modernize applications enabling faster time-to-market and increased innovation.
New Amazon EC2 i3en.metal instances for VMware Cloud on AWS, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver high networking throughput and lower latency so you can migrate data centers to the cloud for rapid data centers evacuation, disaster recovery, and application modernization.
VMC on AWS can be the right choice because VMware has been a trusted virtualization platform for many years in the industry and enterprise VMware ensures that all your applications run seamlessly. Plenty of companies are already running on VMware platform and have applications running on it. Below are some key identifiers for VMC on AWS:
- VMware SDDC is running on bare metal, which is delivered, operated, supported by VMware
- On-demand scalability and flexible consumption
- Full operational consistency with on-premises SDDC
- Seamless workload portability and hybrid operations
- Global AWS footprint, reach, and availability
- Native AWS services accessibility
Explore Sifyβs expertise in the hybrid cloud and hybrid cloud managed services space. Click here.
How VMC on AWS Solution Works
VMware Cloud on AWS infrastructure runs on dedicated, single tenant hosts provided by AWS in a single account. Each host is equivalent to an Amazon EC2 I3.metal instance (2 sockets with 18 cores per socket, 512 GiB RAM, and 15.2 TB Raw SSD storage). Each host is capable of running many VMware Virtual Machines (tens to hundreds depending on their compute, memory and storage requirements). Clusters can range from a minimum 3 hosts up to a maximum of 16 hosts per cluster. A single VMware vCenter server is deployed per SDDC environment.
How do We Access AWS Services?
For companies that are using VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) as a production environment for their business-critical application, it will require connectivity to an AWS account. This is enabled by an AWS elastic network interface which provides a 25Gbps connectivity between VMC and AWS. Applications deployed on VMC can leverage native AWS services for storage, EC2 instances, RDS Databases, load balancing and DNS routing, etc., providing customers with the best of both worlds. These native services can be accessed from applications deployed on VMC and include:
- Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Elastic File Service (EFS)
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Sifyβs Value Propositions to Help Customer Who are Looking for Hybrid Cloud Services
Sify has been in the Cloud industry since 2012 and has its own cloud for enterprise customers which can be tailored based on the requirement. Over the last few years, Sify has been involved in large enterprise customer requirement understanding, solutions & implementation across Private, Public & Hybrid Clouds.
Sify has dedicated, experienced and certified SMEs involved during solution stage and implementation and to provide operations services which will enable businesses to accelerate the adoption of Hybrid Cloud.
Our approach is to identify potential use cases for Hybrid Cloud options for VMC on AWS and native AWS services during the initial assessment and design phase, and we also suggest the most suitable services that can help customers meet the strategic goals. These services include the following:
- Discovery Workshop
- Assessment
- Build and Migrate
Feel free to contact us to provide your organization with tailored solutions with the required support across the various stages of the setup of VMC & AWS and migration of workloads.
