Sify Technologies has selected Versa Networks for its Secure Cloud IP platform, SD-WAN and SD-Branch solutions to broaden Sify’s Cloud@Core strategy.
The joint solution allows Sify customers to deploy Versa’s software-defined WAN and software-defined branch VNFs that enable a smooth transition from their existing connectivity and security systems. The SIFY/Versa SD-WAN offer ensures that clients realize greater TCO, highly secure and available edge connectivity, application user experience, and traffic conditioning with optimization and flexibility.
Sify’s SD-WAN and SD-Branch offering utilizes the Versa FlexVNF Software, which combines network and security capabilities to provide a full suite of Layer 3 to Layer 7 IP services that are built on a cloud-native, multitenant software platform. It provides strong segmentation and integrated on-premises security functions that enable a dynamic policy-driven infrastructure with user, device, location, application and network context.
Sify’s Versa-enabled software-defined managed and secure-branch offerings allow organizations to gain multiple benefits, including –
· Edge networks that seamlessly support hybrid cloud/IT
· Secure and managed environments that bolster digital transformation strategies
· Low operational cost and time-to-market advantages: centralized control and automated provisioning
Kumar Mehta, Co-Founder & CDO, Versa Networks, says, “Our partnership with SIFY Indian Enterprises accelerates the enterprise’s digital transformation journey. Versa’s offer achieves 80% TCO savings, supports connectivity over any transport, enhances application experience, has built-in NSS Labs’ recommended NGFW security and UTM, delivers flawless voice and video experience using traffic conditioning, and supports multi-cloud environments.”
Daniel Alex, President, Telecom Business, Sify, says, “All of Sify’s upcoming solutions integrate a Cloud@Core framework. We see this as the central architecture around which today’s legacy infrastructure will transition to a cloud-centric platform. Sify’s Versa-powered SD-WAN offering will be a crucial element to enable this transition. This partnership with Versa is designed to make available to enterprises best-of-breed, software-defined solutions in their shift to becoming better equipped for a digital transformation era.”
