How IoT is transforming retail
How IoT is transforming retail
Retail is one of India’s largest Industry that contributes about 10% of the country’s overall GDP and generates 8% employment. Energy, Manpower and real estate are the major cost contributors in retail sector. The Industry consumes about 18% of electricity supplied in the country
Gearing up for GST
In all probability, India will roll out its biggest financial reform since independence – the Goods and Services Tax or GST – from July 1, 2017. Though delayed by three months (the original date for its rollout was fixed for April 1, 2017), the new taxation regime promises to create a single seamless national market by consolidating a range of disparate central and local taxes into one levy.
The 9th meeting of the GST Council was recently held in New Delhi wherein the center broadly consented to the states’ demand for dual control of assessing administrative and auditing powers.
GST ready on SAP
Preparing Your IT for GST
The passage of Constitution Amendment Bill (CAB) for GST is one of the notable economic reforms in the country post Liberalization in 1991. While GST will improve the business environment, it requires organizations to put their house in orderfirst
The GST effect
Goods and Services Tax (GST)
A look at how the IT infrastructure across various businesses stands to getimpacted by the roll out of GST
Goods and Services Tax (GST) is dubbed as India’s most radical tax reform. It is touted as having the potential to ramp up the country’s GDP by as much as 2 percentage points. GST is expected to impact key business areas such as tax compliance framework, pricing of services and products and employee skill set
AR based training support
Overview
This article describes the Augmented Reality (AR)-based training/performance support tool implemented at a Pharma Manufacturing Division with an objective to cut down training time but simultaneously accelerate the time to competency in Operators to achieve desired business outcomes. The AR tool is designed to help new hires and less experienced Operators working in high-speed pharmaceutical packaging line to quickly upskill on the standard operating procedure (SOP) of the
splicing process of the GUK machine.
Building new revenue streams in patient care
Sify’s private cloud, network, DR and integration services help healthcare major to rationalize costs and release funds for modernization
Project Objective
Deployment of client’s 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 enterprise cloud
- Hybrid Security and Managed Services for all applications
Value for client
The 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.
What to Consider for a Data Centre Service Partner
Organisations are on a perennial quest to reduce costs and increase their business focus with the power of data. There is an increased emphasis on unleashing the full potential of technology with the Data Centre (DC) and the corroborating IT infrastructure. Organisations are increasingly looking forward to unlocking data-driven transformation by partnering with the right Data Centre service providers for organisational resilience, business continuity, and cost savings.
The pandemic has further pushed for the growth in digital adoption and IT-infra trends where enterprises are largely gravitating towards colocation and cloud rather than in-house DC. With flexibility, scalability, and state-of-the-art security being guaranteed, they need a reliable and trustworthy partner who can go beyond their basic Data Centre requirements.
Choosing Your Ideal Data Centre Service Partner
There are many factors to consider when choosing a data centre partner but here are our suggestions based on our experience:
- Dedicated Subject Matter Experts across all functions in each Data Centre including Electrical, Mechanical, Building Management System, Health & Safety, Security and Network.
- Cross-industry experience in hosting diverse workloads on carrier-neutral Data Centres.
- Data Centre presence across all regions to serve customers effectively.
- Stringent physical infrastructure security.
- Green Data Centres with energy-efficient devices and processes to reduce energy consumption.
- Sourcing and deploying renewable energy.
- Strong Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) policies.
- Redundant architecture for high resiliency.
- Backup and Disaster Recovery capabilities.
- Partnership with leading Hyperscale Cloud Providers.
- Fast Network connectivity to multiple public clouds.
- Experience in optimising hybrid cloud.
An ideal provider should have a partnership with leading hyperscalers, connectivity to respective public clouds, and experience of optimising the hybrid cloud. With increasing emphasis on environmental safety and sustainability, it is best if your provider uses green data centres which use renewable energy for reducing water usage, electricity consumption, and harmful emissions. A quick way of judging a provider is to look at the overall customer feedback for its services.
Sify Data Centres – Your Ideal Data Centre Transformation Partner
Being the very first Data Centre Colocation Service Provider in India, Sify has a rich experience of 20 years in building, owning, and operating Data Centres. Owing to its operational experience and efficiency, it has been ensuring 100% uptime for its customers since 2008. Sify has 10 operational data centres spread across all major Indian cities – Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Noida, Kolkata, and Chennai with 70 MW IT power capacity. Thus, customers have the flexibility of choosing a DC close to their location, expanding business to new geographies, and selecting multiple DR sites in different seismic zones for high resiliency. Additionally, Sify has a roadmap of adding another 200 MW in the next four years to address the increasing demands of its customers.
Experience Sify Data Centres in 360-degree Virtual Reality
Sify’s carrier-neutral Data Centres are equipped with multiple Internet Exchanges such as AMS-IX, Extreme IX, NIXI, etc for facilitating OTTs, ISP interconnects, and Content IP peering. This allows customers to reach multiple Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and select the most compatible CSP for accelerating their data processing and storage efficiency. In addition, Sify’s massive Data Centre and Network ecosystem connect more than 48 Interconnected Data Centres across India. Sify Data Centres hosts Hyperscaler Cloud Providers with their Cloud Connects enabling cloud adjacency for the hybrid cloud. Customers can leverage the above for faster access to cloud applications and scalability of critical processes enabled by the Hybrid Cloud architecture.
Sify Data Centres have multiple security layers as per global standards for extremely high data security. Keeping ahead of the curve, they feature multiple fibre paths to counter evolving security threats. Sify Data Centres are certified as per ISO 27001:2013, ISO 20000-1:2011 and ISO 9001:2008 as well as SOC 2 reporting, TIA 942 Rated 3, PCI DSS, and SAP HANA. These qualifications have compelled customers to choose Sify as their first choice for a secure and safe infrastructure for hosting in India.
To enable a seamless experience, Sify also offers cross-connects and rack space deployment services through an easy-to-use self-service portal. Sify Data Centres have been entrusted by industry leaders from BFSI, manufacturing, e-commerce, ITeS, healthcare, media, and many more. Sify Data Centres address all your data centre requirements for accelerating your digital journey including Colocation, Data Centre consolidation/expansion, Disaster Recovery, and Hybrid Cloud.
Build Your Bespoke Environment in India
India is one of the largest and fastest-growing markets for digital consumers. An entire ecosystem of primary and associated services is benefiting from this rapid change. The data centre has become the epicentre of Cloud and Digital Transformation in the region.
As the pioneer in data centre services in India, Sify was one of the first service providers to offer Managed Hosting Services, Colocation Services and Enterprise-ready Cloud Services, serving customers since 1995.
Sify will help you build your bespoke service environment in any of our ten data centres across the Indian subcontinent.
Learn more about our Data Centre Services
Integration of cloud, DC and DR
Resilient and integrated IT infrastructure on private cloud, with hosted IT and automated DR helps insurance leader roll out new solutions rapidly, with 10% reduced TCO
Project Objective
Consolidate four data center application workloads and build Managed Private Cloud and DR Services at Sify DC
Project Model
Fully services model (vis-à-vis existing capex + services model)
Sify’s Uniqueness
Integrated value proposition: Cloud Assessment Services, designed a private cloud architecture using Sify CloudInfinit CMP best practices, automated DR on Sify DRaaS model, Telecom Services for DC-DR connectivity, and end-to-end Managed IT Services
Integrated Value and Outcome
Cloud@core products and services:
- Design, build and deploy Hosted Private Cloud Infrastructure.
- Study and migrate close to 20 applications to hosted private cloud with near-zero downtime window.
- Set up DR at a different seismic zone using DRaaS to provide granular data recovery time objectives.
- Implement security framework to comply with the insurance Industry Regulatory Requirements.
- Managed Services using Sify Managed Services Platform covering DC, DR, Branch Network and Security
Value for client
Resilient IT Infrastructure to roll out new solutions at a rapid rate without delays in procurement of new hardware, software and other IT Infrastructure resources with 10% reduction on TCO YoY.
Integration services for leading statutory body
Integrated and automated monitoring, optimization, SD-WAN and private cloud services, with DR, leads to higher availability and efficiency
Project Objective
- Design and implement a state-of-the-art, cost-effective, automated and secure DR for critical business application landscape
- Migration of applications and copying data from DC to DR site
Project Model
On-premise DR build model
Sify’s Uniqueness
- Integrated solution covering different elements – Physical or Virtual Infrastructure, Software-Defined Network, Security and Managed Services
- DR workflow automation, SOP and best practices
- Application and Data Migration from DC to DR
- Heterogeneous application-aware data replication
- DR built using best-of-breed technology elements at Hyderabad
- Automation – Private Cloud Infra, One-click DR, EMS
- Application-centric Software-Defined Network
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Virtualized environment to optimize Oracle apps & DB license
- Dedicated infrastructure HA in DR, in always-on mode
- DR Security – SIEM, Proxy, IPS, Email Security, WAF, APT and End-Point Protection
DR IT Platform:
Integrated Value and Outcome
- State-of-the-art & automated Disaster Recovery
- Continuously improve RTO and RPO
- Real-time dashboard of RTO and RPO
- Regulatory compliance
Value for Client
- Higher application availability, visibility and data availability
- Increased customer satisfaction
- Increased operational efficiency
Privileged access management through ‘least privilege’ principle
Privileged access management solution to reduce organization’s attack surface, and prevent, respond to, and mitigate damages
Project Objective
Sify helps organizations with its Privileged Access Management solution that helps to reduce their attack surface and prevent and mitigate the damage arising from external attacks as well as from insider threats or negligence. The central goal is the enforcement of least privilege, defined as the restriction of access rights and permissions for users, accounts, applications, systems, devices and computing processes to the absolute minimum necessary to perform routine, authorized activities.
Project Model
Platform as a Service (PaaS) Model
Sify’s Uniqueness
To keep up with ever-evolving cyber threats, Sify’s Technology Innovation Center works continuously to improve security processes and solutions.
Integrated Value and Outcome
- Central SOC operated from Chennai
- Pay only for privileged user count and get unlimited device integration
- Secure access to administrative users to manage the respective endpoints
- Session recording to track administrative changes
- Automated password refresh cycles to manage compliance
- Custom administrative access workflow for access authorization
Value for Client
Sify provides a highly effective Privileged Access Management solution that helps in managing, controlling and monitoring privileged user activities whilst implementing the principle of ‘least-privilege’
