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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Sify partners with VMware to deliver on-demand cloud solutions

Sify Technologies recently announced its partnership with VMware that will enable Sify to provide on-demand hosting (cloud) services to end-customers using the VMware vSphere 4 platform.

Sify has joined the global VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), designed for service-providers who offer on-demand cloud services giving them the option to “rent” VMware software licenses on a monthly “pay as you go” basis. This model is aimed at helping Indian companies, both large and small, to safely tap computing capacity inside and outside their firewalls to help ensure quality of service for any application they want to run, internally or as a service.

P J Nath, Executive President, Enterprise Business, Sify, said, “This partnership will help us in making virtualized infrastructure available to a greater number of customers in a simplified way. For Sify to lead in the cloud service domain in India market, it was imperative to partner with a technology vendor who commands respect and has wider reach in secure virtualization initiatives, and VMware was our natural choice. Our partnership with VMware enables us to offer public, private and hybrid cloud to VMware customers for their Primary, Disaster Recovery (DR) or Business Continuity Program (BCP) proposition.”

The VSPP is a part of the VMware’s vCloud initiative which is designed to enable compatibility for all applications running in the cloud, whether on or off premise.

This partnership is aimed at helping Sify address the increasing demand for on-demand computing in India, which is one of the fastest growing cloud computing markets in the Asia Pacific region. Reference

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