Akamai Technologies, a leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications recently announced a strategic partnership with Sify Technologies Limited, a leading managed enterprise, network, IT and software services provider in India, that will enable Sify Technologies to offer Akamai’s global expertise and solutions in Web acceleration and applications delivery to its enterprise customers across India.
The collaboration is aimed at helping enterprises, especially those in the BFSI, ITeS and manufacturing verticals to enhance cloud adoption for their business and functional applications. This according to the company, will enable enterprises to mitigate the complexities of internet, and thereby enhance user experience for their global employee, customer and partner bases, while providing a comprehensive and highly secure platform for their online applications.
“It is Akamai and Sify’s shared vision to give customers industry-leading solutions and expertise to accelerate their online delivery and quality of service.” said Sidharth Malik, Managing Director, Akamai Technologies. “We believe that this partnership will help Akamai reach out to a new set of customers through Sify and help expand our footprint across India.”
“This partnership allows Sify to extend multiple leverages to clients. In a sea of information online, it will enable precise, accelerated and optimized content delivery for our clients, both on the web and mobile platforms. For Sify, this translates into a vital service that we can extend to every Enterprise whose business model involves content and its delivery robustness,” said Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies.
Akamai’s leading web application and acceleration solutions leverage a widely-distributed network of servers — over 141,000 across 90 countries in over 1,200 networks. The result is designed to provide greater network efficiency, a more secure system and a better service quality for end users in terms of access, download speeds and uptime.
