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Sify Technologies Ltd., one of India’s largest companies providing enterprise data services, which also provides consumer internet services and has an online presence in the form of a Portal Sify.com, has today announced a tie-up with internet search giant Google to power the company’s Email and Chat services. According to the announcement, the Sify’s offerings such as Email and Chat will be powered by Google Apps Suite of services along with the other collaborative services offered by Google. We’d previously covered the launch of Google Apps platform from Google back in 2006, co-incidentally on this same day.
Sify already offers these services through the portal, though using their own platform. With the rising popularity of enhanced features in email and messaging, mainly due to companies such as Google and Zenbe stuffing their services a bunch of features, Sify’s offerings had become stale in comparison. A lot of users like me had moved away from their services, to those offered by Yahoo and Gmail.
After their move to the Google Apps platform, Sify can start offering services under their own brand name, but leave all the hard work of management to Google. This is quite a tie up, given Sify’s reach, which is among the top 500 sites in the world and ranks among the top 30 in India (as per alexa).
What this means is that you can use most of the services currently offered by Gmail, but integrated with Sify. Email, chat, online documents storage and editing and web-pages would be offered to all Sify users. Sify has been currently providing Internet access in India through the ePort cyber café chain and also provides home broadband access services. This reach was of great importance in providing exposure to sify’s bouquet of websites. Apart from the Sify.com portal, Sify also runs video content on Sifymax.com for broadband users and Samachar.com for global Indians to stay in touch with everything Indian. They also have the SifyMall shopping catalogue.
Business Wire quotes Raju Vegesna, Chairman & CEO, Sify Technologies Limited as saying
There is a perfect confluence of the mission of our companies in enhancing the quality of life of individuals and businesses by empowering them with the Internet. Our agreement with Google makes superior applications available for communications and collaboration, coupled with our understanding of the needs of Indians, on our popular portal Sify.com. We believe that we can make compelling applications, tools and content based on Google’s expertise for many more Indians to use the Internet to enhance their productivity and quality of life. This agreement enhances our relationship with Google beyond powering the search on Sify.com.
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