Chennai: Sundaram Infotech Solutions, the IT arm of Sundaram Finance Ltd., has forayed into the Infrastructure Management Services (IMS) market in India with specific focus on data center services, Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) including server administration and management, application hosting and management services as well installing, running and maintaining the entire IT Infrastructure of companies.
Sundaram Infotech will target auto, financial services, agri-sciences and retail industries with its 'SMART IT INFRA IMS' offering. Sundaram Infotech will also target small sized companies that are looking to outsource the management of remote data protection.
On the company's foray into the IMS space, Malli J. Sivakumar, CEO, Sundaram Infotech said, "Indian companies are looking at alternative options to bring down the cost of running and maintaining the IT infrastructure and reducing the huge upfront capital investments. Given our experience in managing the entire IT infrastructure of Sundaram Finance across 500branches spread all over the country, we believe we now have the necessary expertise and domain knowledge to take our IMS offering to the external market."
As part of the IMS business' foray into the external market, Sundaram Infotech has appointed GN Sivaramakrishna to head its IMS practice and run the business as a strategic business unit. Sundaram Infotech's IMS team has over 300 man years of experience, is highly customer centric and has the know-how in monitoring exclusive mission critical online financial services systems having managed the IT infrastructure for its parent company Sundaram Finance.
GN Sivaramakrishna, Head- IMS, Sundaram Infotech said, "Our ability to offer a lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) combined with a 24x7 round the clock management of the IT infrastructure through our SMART IT INFRA offering will be an exciting proposition for companies in India looking to outsource their IT infrastructure. Through this expansion, we are confident that over the next two years, 50% of the IMS business will accrue from external customers, outside the Sundaram Finance Group."
