Managed-Services-led network model for digital payments
Sify’s multi-service-provider capabilities and skills in network integration, transformation and NOC provide a reliable network to facilitate inter-bank payment settlements.
Sify’s Managed-Services-led network outsourcing model guarantees multiple banks high availability and the ability to navigate complexities.
Project Objective
To set up the digital payment network infrastructure connecting multiple bank locations for interbank settlements.
Project Model
Managed-Services-led network outsourcing model
Sify’s Uniqueness
Integrated value of skills – NSP, Network Integrator, NOC & Managed Services, Network Transformation Services, Security Services and Network Infrastructure Services
Integrated Value and Outcome
- Sify’s expertise in designing, implementing, and operating a multi-service provider environment for high availability.
- Ability to tightly integrate security controls into the overall network architecture, and yet manage the complexity of interconnections between member banks and RBI payment gateways.
- Integrated play of network Managed Service provider and skillsets to run large-scale dedicated NOC operations for such mission-critical network.
Value for client
Single ownership with the MSP to manage the complexity and guarantee high availability.
Has your vision gone clouded with Cloud Adoption?
SPEAKERS:
Ravi Maguluri, CTO Cloud & Managed Services, Sify Technologies
Anirban Dasgupta, AVP, Data Center Centric Services, Sify Technologies
DATE:
October 29, 2020 | 6.00 PM
DESCRIPTION:
Enterprises are constantly grappling with the decisions surrounding cloud adoption strategy, how to manage the migration, which workloads to be moved, how to start application modernization, all while ensuring cost optimisation. Often our vision gets clouded with a relentless barrage of questions around cloud adoption.
Sify’s Cloudinfinit cloud management platform provides comprehensive visibility, insights, and control over cloud resources from multiple clouds. This helps to make informed decisions to address various scenarios.
In this context, ETCIO.com in association with Sify is hosting a webinar titled “Has your vision gone clouded with Cloud Adoption? Explore Infinite possibilities with Sify’s Cloudinfinit”. Join us for this session to learn how to unclutter your thoughts around Cloud adoption.
Gain best practices from the industry experts on creating good visibility on various aspects of cloud management and insights that can be gleaned from such visibility.
Key Discussion Points
- Analyse the Cloud adoption journey- strategy & roadmap
- Enable operational excellence and cost optimization with cloud
- Challenges and vulnerabilities associated with the cloud adoption
Integrated and end-to-end Managed Services
Scheduled Indian bank finds a unified technology integrator and managed services provider in Sify, delivering strong capex and opex benefits
Scheduled Indian bank finds in Sify a single technology integrator for DC, DR, NDR, hosting, SD-WAN, security, branch connectivity and managed services with end-to-end SLA ownership
Project Objective
Develop a Hybrid IT infrastructure to migrate Core Banking application Software. Hybrid IT – Includes Managed DC, DR, NDR , Security and Branch Connectivity.
Project Model
Capex | Opex | Consumption Model
Sify’s Uniqueness
Integrated value proposition: Sify is a single IT partner to build, host, manage the DC, DR, NDR, branch connectivity and Security in line with the RBI audit guidelines.
Integrated Value and Outcome
Sify’ s value proposition built on cloud@core products and services
- Designed Private Cloud architecture for Bank CBS and hosted DC & DR on Sify Data Center.
- Designing the right network architecture based on Sify SD-WAN Services & technology to meet the network SLAs in the tough hilly terrains
- Leveraged Sify Managed Connectivity Services to Interconnect DC , DR , NDR data replication and branch application access.
- Managing Data Center, Disaster Recover services , Network Services and security using Sify Managed Services Platform
- Strong Technology Alliances and Partnership.
Value for Client
A single technology integrator for DC, DR, NDR, Hosting, SD-WAN, Security , branch connectivity and Managed Services owning the end-to-end SLA of IT.
New revenue streams and improved patient care through cloud
Leading healthcare provider achieves 33% costs reduction by deploying healthcare app on Sify Cloud
Project Objective
Deployment of client application on Sify Cloud Platform to achieve digital initiative goals and increased revenue.
Project Model
Fully services model (vis-à-vis existing capex + services model)
Sify’s Uniqueness
Integrated value proposition: Private Cloud + Network Services + Disaster Recovery Services + Managed Services
Integrated Value and Outcome
cloud@core products and services:
- Started with hosted virtualization and Managed Services several years ago in first-generation initiatives.
- Migrated to Sifycloudinfinit with Cloud@core in second generation initiatives with minimal disruption
- DRaaS from Cloud@core is configured to mitigate the risk from unplanned disaster to prevent impacting the business
- Hyperreach network connectivity for all hospitals with the enterprise cloud
- Hybrid security and Managed Services for all applications
Value for client
Client could provide better patient care and create new streams of revenue. As a one stop IT infrastructure partner Sify helped rationalize costs and release funds for modernization.
Logistics major transforms to digital IT
App modernization through microservices-based containerization with full CI/CD implementation using AWS leads to agility and enhanced CX
Project Objective
Move away from legacy monolithic app architecture to improve time to market for customized offerings and service models for clients of logistics major
Project Model
Fully consumption-based model (vis-à-vis existing capex + services model)
Sify’s Uniqueness
Single SPOC across DC, Hyperscale Cloud & Network, Integrated value proposition built on: Cloud-adjacent DC, Hyperscale (AWS) partnership, DC and Sify Cloud Interconnect
Integrated Value and Outcome
Sify’ s value proposition built on cloud@core products and services
- Partnered with AWS for designing the right architecture for application modernization plan on hyperscale cloud platform
- Existing applications and infrastructure running on Cloud-adjacent DC and interconnected to AWS cloud through Direct Connect at near-zero latency.
- Designed and configured the technology stack for microservices using AWS services such as Kubernetes, RDS, Kafka, Istio, Alfresco. Grafana, Prometheus and so on
- Infrastructure-as-a-Code: Designed the entire solution using Terraform configuration to easily create infrastructure from code
- Implementation using DevOps CI/CD with opensource tools like Maven, Jenkins, Junit, JMeter, SonarQube, ECR, Selenium
Value for Client
Enabled digital transformation:
- Cost optimization due to server-less framework and containers on open-source platforms and no OEM lock-in for applications and DBs, improvements in customer service
- Greater satisfaction due to agile applications
- No capex – with pay-as-you-go billing models, greater degree of automation and scalability
Streamlining the IT Service Organization
Managed services on canonical model secures higher uptime, enhanced visibility and customer delight for billion-dollar chemical manufacturer
Project Objective
Enhance the client’s IT Services and jointly work towards meeting the business dynamics and challenges of IT Service Organization.
Project Model
Services model
Sify’s Uniqueness
Integrated value proposition:
- Support this customer with our strong management & monitoring toolsets, service-catalogue-based delivery for Data Center, Disaster Recovery Services, Network, Security, Service Desk & End-User Services.
Integrated Value and Outcome
Deliver comprehensive managed services on a canonical model modeled into a service catalog and outcomes linked payments
- Seamless service transition to Sify Managed Services
- Manage DC, DR, Network, Security, End-User Services.
- Savings in telecom bills through Network Assessment Services
- Cost reduction by migrating on-premise DC to Sify DC
- Improved DR Services levels by Sify DRaaS Services
- Cost reduction in Managed Services by improving productivity and reducing costs with hybrid Managed Services
- Continuous improvement in IT Services reliability and scalability leveraging Sify hybrid cloud platform
Value for client
Higher uptime of service levels, improvement in customer delight, service dashboard providing a view on the IT services, state-of-the-art tools, process and procedures, secure application access through BYOD platform, Reduced cost of DC operations and improved uptime of Infrastructure.
Best Practices for Successful Migration to SAP S/4HANA (On-prem or Cloud)
SPEAKERS:
Prashant Pimpalekar, Sr. VP SAP Practice, Sify Technologies, will be the key speaker along with a SAP Cloud Specialist Shagun Maheshwari, Customer Solution Architect for Cloud ERP, SAP.
DATE:
17th September, 2019
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Any customer evaluating SAP S4/HANA or Cloud Migration services.
DESCRIPTION:
SAP S4/HANA brings in the agility & flexibility to leverage OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing) along with the traditional OLTP (On Line Transaction Processing), reducing data footprint by more than 1/10th.
The webinar will cover both migration options, on-premise and cloud, in detail.
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 & Telco’ 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 on…
How can ISP’s 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
TEQzest Conference Ranchi Edition 2017
A conference on driving digital transformation in East India
Sify TEQzest, an elite and exhaustive evening program was hosted for the CIOs & CXOs from Ranchi & Rest of East o 21st July at The Chanakya BNR, Ranchi.
TEQzest aimed to focus on how businesses can be made agile through digital integration and convergence leading to transformation with the theme of ‘Driving Digital Transformation in East India’.
The event started with a keynote address on ‘Digital Transformation Strategy in Ranchi and East India’ by Guest of Honour Satendra Singh, IAS, Secretary, Department of IT & e-Governance, Government of Jharkhand. Following the keynote, Nihar Chakraborty, Senior Vice President & CoO – East and SAARC countries, Sify Technologies made the presentation on ‘Role of ICT Service Provider in the digital transformation journey’.
The evening concluded with a CIO power panel discussion based on the theme of the event ‘Integrate. Converge. Transform – The new mantra for success’ comprising technology leaders and policymakers from various enterprise and Govt. organizations who deliberated and discussed on driving through disruptive technologies.
Sify got an opportunity to showcase its digital transformation proposition to prospect customers in Healthcare & Education verticals and PSU & Govt. sector in Ranchi. Apart from the ICT story, we were able to highlight our iTest, Telecom, Application and Cloud capabilities. Sify engaged in business led dialogues with over 70 CXOs.
Venue
The Chanakya BNR, Ranchi
Date
21 Jul 2017
Organizers
INFOCOM – ABP Initiative



















SAP Partner Summit 2017
Enabling digital organizations to run simple
This is an annual flagship event for SAP partners in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The 2017 edition of the event was attended by 200 CXO participants from 120 partners across all partner categories – resell, services, build – for complete SAP solution portfolio. There were also 50 SAP senior executives from APJ region of India organization, SAP India sales leaders and channel teams.
The Agenda of the summit included the following. Apart from this, there were booth displays, on site activities and media interactions.
Welcome and Keynotes
SAP India managing director’s session
SAP APJ regional management presentation
SAP business and channels highlights and updates
Break-out Workshops
Emerging market trends and new go-to-market initiatives
Customer successes in specific SAP solutions
Fostering demand and pipe acceleration through partners
Enhancing collaboration and process efficiencies
Awards and Entertainment
External thought-leader talk
Partner awards
Entertainment night – live band
Networking over cocktails and dinner
Venue
The Renaissance, Mumbai
Date
9 Aug 2017
Organizers
SAP



