Netmagic Wins Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Provider Award at 2014 Frost & Sullivan India ICT Awards

Netmagic, an NTT Communications company has been named Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Provider of the year at the 2014 Frost & Sullivan India ICT Awards.

Netmagic, an NTT Communications company has been named Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS ) Provider of the year at the 2014 Frost & Sullivan India ICT Awardsheld on June 24, 2014 at Le Meridien in New Delhi. Netmagic was felicitated with this award in recognition of its outstanding performance, market leadership, and new technologies application in cloud services.

Its feature rich self-service, pay-as-you-use, project governance capabilities and end-user confidence delivered through public cloud grid at major cities in India has positioned Netmagic as a holistic cloud consulting partner and a value-for-money service provider who offers best in class cloud infrastructure and solutions that empower enterprises with fully automated access, control, security, and scalability.

Sharad Sanghi, Managing Director and CEO, Netmagic, says,
It is a moment of honor and elation for us to have received this esteemed award. What makes us even happier is that we have been recognized by a jury consisting of some of India's best analysts and leaders in the ICT industry, equally backed by the continuous faith and support of our customers.

We are proud to have been at the forefront in defining India's cloud story. We were one of the first to bring cloud services to India. In this highly competitive space, key to success is the constant thirst to innovate. It is this thirst that propelled us to launch India's first Software Defined Storage Service with metered IOPS (NTSS)as well as cloud-based Web Application Firewall (WAF) Platform last year. We have also witnessed a strong growth for Disaster Recovery (DR) on Cloud offering that helps enterprises offset CAPEX considerations and invest in a cost effective, yet robust DR solution. Besides, our expert consulting and solution capabilities backed by strong service delivery has allowed us to give complex IT consolidation and migration solutions around a hybrid cloud approach, thereby protecting customers' existing IT infrastructure while moving them on a gradual path to public cloud. With the global expertise of NTT Communications, we will continue strides of innovation, and support our customers at every step of their IT infrastructure evolution, he added.

Benoy CS, Director, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan, says,
Netmagic has demonstrated its commitment to deliver to enterprises, innovative cloud services that eliminate up-front capital costs and offer enterprise - class features like instant deployment, ability to rapidly scale both horizontally and vertically, predictable uptime and lower total cost of ownership. Netmagic's home grown cloud architecture provides enterprises with a tactical and strategic business planning advantage since it offers transparent metering for IT usage and also supports on-demand IT provisioning for uncertain business demands. Netmagic has led a consultative approach to help organizations transition to cloud based services by simultaneously mitigating the risk of data migration from their legacy systems.

The award recipients were judged on a variety of parameters that included revenue growth, market share growth, product portfolio diversity, key achievements, and go-to-market strategy, and involved in-depth primary interviews of various industry participants and secondary research conducted by Frost & Sullivan analysts. An elite panel of jury members comprising prominent CIOs/CTOs from the collaboration industry evaluated the compiled data and incorporated the end-user perspective. Frost & Sullivan then presented the Awards to companies that received the highest number industry ranking in each category.

Netmagic offers a range of cloud infrastructure solutions for compute, network, storage, and applications as well as strategic cloud deployments for disaster recovery. Netmagic's enterprise-grade cloud platform is certified by industry leaders such as SAP and Cisco. The company works with market leaders such as Ratnakar Bank (RBL), Flipkart, Myntra, Star TV, DishTV, India Infoline, MakeMyTrip, and several others.

About Netmagic Solutions (An NTT Communications Company)

Netmagic, an NTT Communications company, is India's only Datacenter Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (DILM) Service Provider. The company delivers services to Plan, Design, Manage, Support and Migrate IT Infrastructure running mission critical applications for over 1200 enterprises across the globe.

Netmagic has been a pioneer in the Indian IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service space and amongst the first to bring to market several services including Public Cloud (SimpliCloud), Hybrid Cloud, Managed Security, DR-as-a-Service and Cloud Object Storage (SimpliDrive).

Netmagic delivers services from 8 carrier-neutral, state-of-the-art data centers located in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Noida (Delhi-NCR) and Chennai.
Netmagic Solutions is ISO 27001, ISO 9001:2008, ISO 20000-1 and SAP (Data center and Cloud Hosting) certified and its processes are designed as per the ITIL framework.

As part of the NTT Communications group, it also has access to leading global tier-1 IP network, Arcstar Universal OneTM VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and over 150 secure data centers.

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