Better late than never and thus Sify’s consumer Internet and Enterprise services in India announced launch of its SLA driven utility based On-Demand storage services and the platform is powered by Hitachi Data Systems. Sify offers a 99% availability guarantee on the storage system.

The availability of Cloud storage services will affect the hosted services by the Sify itself however the Amazon S3 services competitive rates and trusted & used services and other old and trusted Cloud storage services is the main barrier to any new services in the same sector.

however, the question is how the Indian cloud storage services is beneficial?, so – For Indian hosted services that is hosted servers that resides in India, it will give boost to all the hosted customers who uses Indian hosted servers which is considered as less preferred because Indian hosted IPs are more spammers. Bringing in more cloud server storage systems will allow consumers to opt for Cloud storage systems that resides in India only as Amozon S3 do have some limitation on where your parent host resides.