Akamai forms strategic partnership with Sify Technologies

BANGALORE, INDIA: Akamai Technologies Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Sify Technologies Ltd. This partnership 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 intended to help Enterprises, especially those in the BFSI, ITeS and manufacturing verticals to enhance cloud adoption for their business and functional applications. By mitigating the complexities of Internet, Enterprises will be able to 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, MD, 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."