Sify partners VMware to deliver cloud

BANGALORE, INDIA: Sify Technologies Ltd., a data centre player, partnered with VMware to deliver on-demand cloud services.

This will allow the expansion of VMware service provider program (VSPP) in India and enable Sify to provide on-demand hosting (cloud) services using VMware vSphere 4 platform.

Sify has joined the global VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), designed for service-providers who offer on-demand cloud services giving them the option to “rent” VMware software licenses on a monthly “pay as you go” basis.

P J Nath, executive president, Enterprise Business, Sify, said: “Our partnership with VMware enables us to offer public, private and hybrid cloud to VMware customers for their primary, disaster recovery (DR) or business continuity program (BCP) proposition."