Sify plans to invest over Rs 400 cr in data centres

Sify Technologies, which provides enterprise data services and consumer Internet services, will be investing $100 million (around Rs 437 crore) over the next two years in building data centres across India. The company will set up one data centre each in Noida and Bangalore. The company today launched its fourth data centre at Airoli (Mumbai) at an investment of $36 million (Rs 150 crore).

P J Nath, executive president, Sify Enterprise Services, said, “We have already invested over Rs 250 crore in setting up existing data centres. The Airoli data centre is a key facet of our strategy to develop the most sophisticated networking and data centre infrastructure in the country to facilitate the demand for services such as e-commerce, online banking, corporate ERP and other applications, media and entertainment content, stock trading, unified communications and disaster recovery in the country.”

Sify has been providing data centre services to over 250 customers for the past eight years. Going ahead, the company also plans to launch software-as-a-services (Saas) for its customers. “We will be rolling out some services in this segment. Currently, we are conducting a few pilots and will soon make some announcements,” added Nath.

“We have been investing to raise capacity of our backbone infrastructure, expansion of the network to over 500 points of presence, and the adoption of new technologies and standards to move towards being a next generation network for converged services. Our investment of about $100 million in data centres over the next two years will allow us to meet the growing demand for such services from both the domestic and overseas markets,” said M P Vijay Kumar, chief financial officer, Sify Technologies.

Some of the services that Sify provide include infrastructure services, core services, managed services, consultancy services, enterprise risk management services and hosted applications.