Sify

Sify Technologies Ltd. is a well known ICT solutions provider in India. It is the largest Indian community providing news, business, shopping, sports, movies, vedic astrology, food, and bollywood videos to its customers. It also provides internet services including broadband, WiFi, cybercafes security solutions to its customers.

Type:	Public
Industry:	Information Technology and Services
Founded:	1998
Founder(s):	Rajasekhar Ramaraj
Headquarters:	II Floor, Tidel Park No.4, Canal Bank Road Taramani Chennai 600 113
Country:	India
Businesses:	Sify Software Limited Sify Technologies (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Sify International Inc.
Products:	Games, Food Mail, Shopping Portfolio Manager, eLearning
Employees:	1001-5000
Revenue:	$128 million(2006-07), $50.73 million(June 2011)
Website:	Sify, SifyCorp
Facebook:	Sify
LinkedIn:	Sify
Twitter:	@sifydotcom
Key People
Raju Vegesna, CEO M. Vijay Kumar, CFO Pranesh Babu, CTO C. Suri, COO David Appasamy, CCO Pijush Kanti Das, President of Corporate Affairs Natesh Mani, President of Consumer Infrastructure Services Bhaskar Sayyaparaju, President of International Business P. J. Nath, Executive President of Enterprise Solutions C. R. Rao, Vice President & Head of HR and Administration Ramesh S, Product Manager

ICANN board has quite a good number of members coming from Sify board of Directors.

History

Term Sify was coined from Satyam Infoway Ltd. Sify started providing internet services right away when it was made public by government sector. The company has earned a sound name in development of basic internet services in India. By providing corporate connectivity services in 1998 Sify became the first company to use TCP/IP network structure. Later on it introduced dial up, broadband and wireless to become first ISP of the country. Sify is first IVPN service provider in India along with being first to set up ATM framework and providing services of Multi-Protocol Label Switching MPLS. It now runs over 3000 cybercafes across the country and provides its IT, networking and software services at all levels be it enterprise or individual.

Awards and Achievments

• Sify was placed at number 13 in Dataquest 's Top 20 Best Employers survey in India.
• It has the honor of being first Indian Internet company to be listed on the Nasdaq National Market in the US.
• It is rated in top 5 IT, ITES and ICT companies in User Choice Club 2010 survey of India.
• In October 2000, Sify was voted the ‘Company of the Year’ at the Silicon India Annual Technology and Entrepreneurship Conference in San Jose, California, USA.
• Fortune magazine, selected Sify as one of the world's ten hot technology companies to watch out for, in December 2000 issue.

Extrenal Links

Complete List of Officers On Reuters