Given the proactive governance through the pandemic, India is better placed through the third phase that we are currently experiencing. Digital IT infrastructure across the country has been scaled up aggressively since Networks and Data Centers were declared ‘Essential’ services. Indian businesses are now convinced of the importance of business process continuity and converged services for seamless business output,says Mr. Raju Vegesna, Chairman.
This has led to both a surge of services from Cloud based local startups and growing hyperscale investment in Indian IT infrastructure. We see this as a right time for Sify to scale up.”
BUSINESS SUMMARY
Revenue from Data Center colocation services grew by 44% over same quarter last year.
Revenue from Digital services fell by 18% over same quarter last year
Revenue from Network centric services grew by 8% over same quarter last year.
The Revenue split between the businesses during the quarter was Data Center colocation services 30%, Digital Services 24% and Network centric services 46%.
Kamal Nath, CEO, said, “Enterprises looking for cloud-based Digital Transformation services see our Digital-first bouquet of services as a natural fitment for their evolving business demands. We are seeing an upswing in demand for our cloud@core services as the right delivery model for these demands. Our successful delivery for Hyperscalers is a strong endorsement of our agility and capability on the Data Center front and increases the attractiveness of our Data Centers to our Enterprise clients. With the market learning to work around the pandemic, these demands should continue”.
M P Vijay Kumar, CFO, said, “The customer demand for digital infrastructure services is encouraging. We will continue to expand on our Data center and network capacity. Our fiscal discipline will continue right through our investment journey without impacting customer experience.
Cash balance at the end of the quarter was INR 2381 Million”.
BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS :
As part of our Corporate Venture Capital initiative, Sify has further invested, during the quarter, USD 100,000 in the earlier announced start-ups in the Silicon Valley area.
Sify committed to a capital outlay of INR 9900 Million toward fresh capacity building for data center expansion in the Navi Mumbai region. This is in addition to the capital outlay of INR 1200 Million for expansion of DC capacity in the same region.
Sify Technologies has been recognized as a “Niche Player” in the 2021 Gartner Magic quadrant for Managed Network services. The recognition is for completeness of vision and ability to execute leading to superior quality of service.
The business continues to grow the reach of the network. As on Dec 31, 2021, Sify provides services via 769 fiber nodes and 1893 wireless base stations across the country, a 6% and 11% increase respectively over the same quarter last year.
As part of its Digital Experience Project, Sify completed full automation of service assurance, asset management and service provisioning across its network. This will accelerate the deployment of a streamlined customer experience in the coming quarters.
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