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 sessionsβ¦
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 βTransforming the enterprise into a digital workplace: challenges, benefits and impact.β 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 yearβs theme β The Practical CIO β is decided keeping that in mind. The CIO today is a value creator. With businesses increasingly looking for βuse casesβ for newer technologies rather than just βsolutionsβ to defined problems, the CIOβs 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 crΓ¨me de la crΓ¨me of enterprise IT leaders and accounts for its reputation as the βOscars of the IT industryβ.
This year, the CIO100 β 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 crΓ¨me de la crΓ¨me IT leaders of the country. With ample and exciting fun activities like Digitally innovate your selfie, Mini Golf, Photo Mug and wackiest selfie contest β 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 βDigital Transformation & Innovationβ 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 β Data Center Transformation conducted an enriching session on βDigital Master Class β Crash Course for Innovation & Transformationβ 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)









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 βChange Agents 2017β 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 organizationβs 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. Sifyβs 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 β 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 Sifyβs 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.
SANOG 30 Conference 2017
Conference on ISPs perspective about peering & content
South Asian Network Operators Group 2017 is a conference dedicated to Data Network Operators in South Asia and covers operational issues, internet policies and technologies relevant to Data Network Operators in the region.
Every year in SANOG key decision makers/ Network engineers/ participants and sponsors from Government of India, Various PSUs, ICANN, ISOC, Google, Facebook, Limelight , Akamai , Microsoft, APNIC, Netflix, APIA, Juniper, Cisco, Amazon, Equinix and key representatives from most of the ISPs & Telcoβ s from India and SAARC countries participates. It also runs a Training program consists of subjects like IPv6, BGP. DNDSEC, MPLS which are very great interest amongst the Network Engineers.
Sify was proud to be one of the prime sponsors (Bronze partner) of the conference. The event provided a regional forum to discuss operational issues and technologies of interest to a data operators in the South Asian region.
Sify technologies participated in Panel discussions at SANOG 2017, where it shared its perspective onβ¦
How can ISPβs ensure high availability at affordable costs
How can ISPs provide a secure service without compromising on the quality of Service
Venue
Ramada Gurgaon Central, Gurgaon
Date
10th July 2017 – 11th July 2017
Organizers
South Asian Network Operators Group
M2M is shifting to M2M
The final eulogy to βMan is the Master of the Machineβ has been written.
In the movie Terminator 3, the sequel delves into the takeover of earth by machines, until the very end, when the machine itself has a change of heart. However ominous those signs are, what is undeniable is that the age of machines is upon us.
From mere input mongers to making sense of the mountain of data, cataloguing them, analysing them and delivering a seemingly analogues interpretation of it, machines have become the new indispensable smartphone for todayβs Enterprise. Within this paradigm, the original input feeder, the man, is now relegated to building strategies on top of the results that the machine has spewed to him. The shift from Man to Machines, to Machines to Machines is now here to stay.
The component that has built itself into an indispensable position in this entire equation is that of the Data Center. Not the legacy coLocation versions but the new age, intelligent data player that offers compute, store, analyze, cohabits the Cloud and Applications within itself. One that is intelligent and elastic enough to accommodate the growing data demands of tech-dictated enterprises.
The Data Center, referred rather insipidly to its very reason of its existence, is now a chameleon in the entire IT structure.Β In some cases, it is the eventual residency point for the data. In others, it is starting point of information that has been decoded and awaits a decision. And in between, is the binding agent in an ever-spawning network.
Come to think of it. What if it was removed from the equation? Or perhaps, more benevolently, scaled down to just a rudimentary Data Center. Before we answer that question, hereβs something of an analogy.
Imagine if all your data was not retrievable one not-so-fine morning. Will we see a repeat of the dark ages? Perhaps so. It is therefore not a far-fetched misnomer when Data is referred to as the new economy.
So, what size of data is the world coming to? Hereβs a curtain raiser.
Shantanu Gupta, director of Connected Intelligent Solutions at Intel, introduces the next-generation prefixes for going beyond the yottabyte; brontobyte and gegobyte.
A brontobyte, which isnβt an official SI prefix, but is apparently recognized by some people in the measurement community, is a 1 followed by 27 zeros. Gupta uses it to describe the type of sensor data weβll get from the internet of things. From there, a gegobyte (10 to the power of 30) is just a short distance away.
Now imagine the computational strength required to make sense of this volume. Companies will hence need to have a future-proof strategy in place for collecting, organizing, cleansing, storing, and securing data β and for applying analytics to derive real-time insights to transform their businesses.
A story in Information Management highlights βBig Data Analytics:Β The Currency of the 21st Century Enterprise.β Quite an interesting read. The gist of the argument: Personal data has an economic value that can be bought, sold, and traded.
Emerging technologies are driving transformation within organizations. The year 2019 will see Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) driving change in enterprises. We already see numerous use cases of these emerging technologies in industries such as BFSI, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, and home automation. These technologies can cull data and get real-time insights about the business and offer timely solutions or corrective action, often without human intervention. AI-backed automation and predictive analytics will help predict challenges that may arise; it will streamline operations, save costs, enhance customer experience, and perform repetitive tasks. While the adoption of ML technologies will lead to exponential growth of enterprise data, the accuracy of outputs is a factor of the sanctity of the input.
That calls for a trustworthy Data Center partner, not only to store the data but also to analyze and manage it. The ideal Data Center partner should do both β cater to current requirements and also adapt to the changing IT landscape.
According to a Frost & Sullivan report, from an APAC standpoint, it said, the Data Center services market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.7% from 2015-2022 to reach US$31.95 billion at the end of 2022. Specifically, the India Data Center market is expected to reach values of approximately $4 billion by 2024, growing at CAGR of around 9% during 2018-2024. Major cities such as Mumbai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad are witnessing high investments of local and international operators in the Indian market. The increasing construction of hyperscale facilities with the power capacity of over 50 MW will fuel the need for innovative infrastructure in the market over the next few years.
A recent study of 500 International Data Centers threw up key insights into what constitutes a well thought out Data Center strategy and one that ticks the right boxes for an Enterprises when selecting a DC partner.

It is therefore evident that the Data Center should be built to solve a business problem β both current and future, should have the flexibility to adapt to changing demands and should be agile enough to accommodate newer dynamics of the business. The paradox in the situation is that as the Data Center grows, the density of the data within it will also expand; all this on hardware that will significantly shrink. Computing power therefore becomes the differentiator and will help negate any push backs that volume will bring up.
It is not lost on DC players that Security is the other differentiator. If this data falls into the wrong hands, it could create havoc, resulting in million dollar loses for corporations. It would impact the credibility of trustworthy institutions, entrusted with sensitive consumer data. Here are two recent incidents.
- In January 2019, the HIV-positive status of 14,200 people in Singapore was leaked online. Details included identification numbers, contact details, and addresses were available in the public domain.
- In December 2018, a cyber-attack exposed the records of 500 million guests of the hotel giant Marriott International. The attack occurred over a period of four years and was traced back to a Chinese spy agency.
The emphasis on security and compliance is even stronger now with the European Unionβs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In fact, GDPR is hailed as one of the most critical pivots in data privacy rules in the past two decades. It is going to fundamentally change how data is handled, stored, and processed.
Given the geographic-agnostic nature of such attacks, it is not lost on Indian IT companies to be wary of an impending attack. The Government-steered Personal Data Protection Bill mandates stringent rules for security, consent of customers, data privacy and data localization. Indian businesses will need to realign their Data Center strategies to comply with this Bill, which could eventually become law. This law will push business leaders to rethink identity and access security, encryption, data systems and application security, cloud security, and DDoS, among other things. And thatβs where machine to machine will score higher. Little wonder that CIOs are in favour of the benefits of automating the whole of atleast a majority of the work chain.
Machine to machine allows for a predictable, systemic patterns, allowing for hyperscale computing, deep-dive analytics, trend spotting, vulnerability recognition and elimination, risk mitigation, even alternate computing, without the vulnerabilities of man to machine directions. The choice therefore in front of the CIO are to go with a service provider who is an SI or an IT architect who has provisioned the entire landscape and hence can implement machine-derived predictable automated results.
Does this mean it is the end of human thinking? Quite to the contrary, it started because of human thinking.
Sify has always taken pride in supporting technology advancements since the launch of its first Enterprise Data Center in 2001 and we invite you to download a copy of Gartnerβs Market Guide that tracks the evolution of Data Center Services Market in India and highlights the wider choice of providers, hosting locations and services.































































