DC DESIGN-BUILD AND OPERATIONS
Sushant Purushan
it in a full stack – from DC hosting to custom-build and cloud services , we can manage the whole piece . This is how we ’ re evolving into a converged ICT ecosystem player offering hybrid IT and DC with integrated security services to meet the needs of businesses across verticals .”
The philosophy behind Sify ’ s DC business has evolved to support the changing market . Sushant elaborates : “ Sify has been focusing on adapting to specialised custom needs of hyperscale users , creating a complete ecosystem of cloud providers , internet exchanges , content providers , CDN providers , ISPs etc . Our initial DC capacities were server hall floors in buildings . Selection and deployment criteria then changed to dedicated buildings , POD-based design featuring power substations within DC premises offering multiple fiber paths for adaptive approaches to security and safety requirements . We now focus on creating DC campuses housing multiple towers .”
DC DESIGN-BUILD AND OPERATIONS
Sify ’ s Head of Project Design , Roopesh Kumar , explains that the company ’ s design philosophy is flexible and hybrid to cater to the needs of all requirements : “ Both IT and
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Sushant Purushan
EXECUTIVE PROFILE A veteran IT professional , Sushant has been in the thick of the evolution of the Indian IT industry from a provider focused on application to one that evolved into infrastructure for the DC and the Cloud . He wet his feet with some of the big names in the industry donning roles across sales , operations , service lines & practice management , strategy and presales . At Sify , he puts a combination of these roles to play , architecting some of the unconventional solutions to Enterprise problems . www . technologymagazine . com