Solutions Champ 2014: ESDS wins the crown for Data Center and Virtualization

DATA CENTER and  VIRTUALIZATION

We crown the stalwarts of this industry yet again in our prestigious solutions Champ issue. This includes 12 prominent technologies - Cloud Services and Virtualization, Data center optimization, Networking solutions and services, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Storage, Managed Security, Managed Print services, Structured Cabling, Unified Communications, Business Intellligence, Power Solutions, BI & Analytics. Also in a first-of-its-kind, we list listed the top 5 system integrators of cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Ahemedabad, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata and also 10 top SIs from across the country. Read these detailed analytical reports exclusively on DQ Channels.

Here are the top 5 solution providers of Data Center and Virtualization:

ESDS

Piyush Somani, MD

The SI is mainly focused on Mobile Chats/Apps Hosting, SAP/ERP Hosting, Hosted Core Banking, e-commerce websites, Power companies and any organization looking for hosting on Utility model. Though private cloud hosting has been doing well from last 2 – 3 years yet Cloud hosting on Utility model(pay-per-use) has picked up in last 1 year. Hosting services on Utility model is expected to do wonders in next few years.here has been a happy realization amongst large Enterprise organizations, that running an in-house DC is a costly affair and one should spend their money and valuable time on their core Business. Many such PSU Bank’s and Enterprise organizations have got rid of their in-house DC’s and moved their servers to commercial Data Center. Some of them have also considered option of leasing Private cloud. Public cloud has very less acceptance in the Enterprise segment as of now in India, but the good news for Commercial Data Center’s is that they are considered by the cash-rich companies for Co-location and Private Cloud.

With presencein Delhi, Mumbai, Nashik and Pune, the SI is opening a new office in Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad soon. As majority of Data Center business in India originates from Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Chennai, so thesefour cities will remain ESDS’ core focus for another year and slowly the SI plans to penetrate in the Tier II and Tier III cities as well. eNlight Cloud(Cloud Orchestration) and eMagic(DC management suit) is ESDS’ Intellectual property and these two products set a clear differentiator between ESDS and the competition.

As eNlight has recently won the award from “Economic Times Group” for the “most innovative cloud platform”, ESDS can be said to have an edge over its competitors.

Ishan Group

Pinkesh Kotecha, Founder

 etwork security might sound like the most used word in IT landscape. Howevere, the importance of networking is often shadowed by many only realizing once a disruption takes place. When designing a network, it is important to accept that neither equipment nor people are flawless. Even the most expensive equipment and the largest, most specialized IT team cannot eliminate the potential for network faults that result in downtime.Greater value can be gained from intelligent network design that increases the level of resilience within the network and eliminates single points of failure. While faults and operational errors can occur, the design goal should be to create a network that will withstand such events. Increasing the level of resilience within the network starts at the core of the network. Ishan Group comprising of Ishan Netsol Pvt Ltd - Class B Internet Service Provider for Gujarat and Ishan Infotech Limited-A public limited company engaged in system integration aims towards providing secure networking solutions along with accuracy, security, speed and reliable communications. Headquarted in Rajkot, Ishan Group has branch offices in  Ahmedabad, Baroda , Surat , Jamnagar and Gandhidham, providing services to more than 26 cities in Gujarat . With ISHAN, company’s can take advantage of bandwidth on demand service. The company also boasts of a 1.25 crore datacentre  to provide the best managed services and server hosting to our customers.

Syndrome Technologies

Siddharth Mehta, CEO

 loud computing remains an important topic for government organizations around the world. Gartner, in a recent report has  examined how their focus is gradually shifting from developing or mandating cloud services to allowing agencies to buy or consume commercial cloud services. Herei comes the focus of Mumbai’s Syndrome Technologies whose Computing services enable organizations with the next generation technology. With cloud computing now gaining predominance, one needs to have servers, storage and consolidation in the finest redundant capability, and scalability of high importance. Virtualization is the key here. Centralized services, data, software and computation on an application programming interface (API) over a network overlap software as a service (SaaS). Converged infrastructure and shared services make Computing an important part of your IT infrastructure planning. The SI takes care of  IT infrastructure  with respect to Servers, Storage, Virtualization and  Server Consolidation. Syndrome provides collaborative services. The solution provider’sr architecture brings together IP telephony, customer interaction technologies and unified communications capabilities such as rich presence, instant messaging, video, and collaboration across a variety of interfaces be it PC or net-based, phones and mobile devices.

Dynacons Systems & Solutions

Paraj J. Dalal, Executive Director

 umbai-based solution provider, Dynacons Systems & Solutions has broadened its horizons in services. To ease IT infrastructure management, it built datacenters that included IT and non-IT components, and managed IT services. The company undertook several BFSI and pharmaceutical datacenter projects including for State Bank of India, Bank of India, Central Bank of India, CGG and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals. It also won datacenter managed services business deals for Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank against a multi-company pitch which included companies like Wipro and Trimax. The solution provider, last year, focused on the growth of its system integration and managed services business that helped the company bag huge SI and services projects. Dynacons Systems & Solutions also invested in training and certifications of its manpower and continuously came up with strategies for competency and technology enhancement.  Its key  technological focus includes  networking, security,  cloud computing, desktops datacenter solutions, mobility, virtualization, managed services and  facility management.

Ashtech Infotech

Sourin Shah, MD

 he world of business is flooded by data, storage represents the repository of an organization’s information (people/ business/ finance/ process/ etc.). Ashtech Infotech brings a broad spectrum of enterprise storage solutions through alliances with some of the world’s leading storage solution companies like Apple,Hewlett Packard,Hitachi, NetApp, SUN,Tandberg and Veritas. As organisations are catering to consumers/ clients beyond national boundaries of India, it is imperative that the requisite IT infrastructure is always available irrespective of a disaster. Ashtech Infotech specializes in disaster recovery/ business continuity, wide area high availability, planned site migration, data warehousing, site consolidation, follow-the-Sun processing , content distribution, backup centralization, off-host processing and geographic load balancing.