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CtrlS: Ensuring Flexibility, Customization, Compliance and Continuity with Infrastructure Services

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With the promise of scalability-on-demand and a pay-as-you-go pricing model, the major advantage that cloud IaaS services brings to the large organizations is higher business efficiencies at lower IT costs.

Enterprises are embracing the IaaS model because it delivers them agility, on-demand access to a much richer range of services at a lower cost. A study carried out by Gartner recently has revealed that the IaaS market will witness an unprecedented growth rate of 41.3 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). However, due to lack of governance and monitoring of cloud resources, IaaS presents myriad of challenges for both service providers and organizations. With the volume of data generated by the cloud resources increasing each day, it has become crucial for the organizations to maintain data integrity, governance, compliance and security throughout the entire data lifecycle. Additionally, customers are plagued by the low service provisioning lead times with Infrastructure Services. Addressing these challenges associated with IaaS, CtrlS, headquartered at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh provides Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Storage and Optimized cloud computing platforms that impart enterprises and hosting providers complete flexibility, customization, compliance and continuity with cloud computing infrastructure. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder & CEO at CtrlS states, “We help enterprise and customers with reduced service provisioning lead times, provide them the ability to customize, ensure compliance with international security standards and enhanced quality of operations”. On the similar lines, we leverage Ctrl4C - a public cloud product that creates four copies in 4 different data centers in different zones and offers customization and easy data recovery. Ctrl4C has inbuilt features that are capable of providing disaster recovery services, managed services and easy scalability. “At present CtrlS is addressing the mid-market segment and positioned to address the unmet needs of end customers through focused engagement, discussions through Ctrl 4C”, adds Sridhar.

The CtrlS Difference

The IaaS market is slowly gaining acceptance in the SMB and mid-sized market. While keeping pace with the IaaS adoptions and acceptance, CtrlS has already extended its Infrastructure Service Support which ensures data safety, security and optimal content delivery. Designed by a fervent inhouse team of cloud experts, Ctrl4C is based on Next Generation Cloud Architecture (NGCA) that provides 8 level physical securities transforming itself into the most secured Data centre with the highest uptime of 99.995 percent at the infrastructure layer. Operating as “pay-as-you-go” model, this Tier 4 data infrastructure within Ctrl4C enables customers to trap its benefits in the form of low total cost of ownership (TCO), high availability, improved business continuity, and complete flexibility (scale/de-scale on demand). Proactive monitoring and alerts for resource utilization along with advanced monitoring services like role based monitoring, application monitoring, security monitoring and IDS & IPS protection are some of salient features of CtrlS.

Proceeding towards Progression

Having bagged the CIO choice award and Business Continuity and Resilience award for its innovative public cloud services for large enterprises, CtrlS focuses on keeping data intact and secure. Under the tutelage of Sridhar, who owns coveted recognitions like “Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year – 2010” for Asia Pacific region by APEA and “Karamveer Puraskar 2007 by ICONGO, the company has spearheaded over 200 innovations in Energy Management, DC Infra, Cloud and Disaster Recovery. As IaaS revenues in India are estimated to cross $300 million by 2018, CtrlS is positioned to leverage the opportunity and acquire a leadership position in cloud services through enhanced market share and customer delight. We are also investing Rs. 626 Cr as a part of our expansion plans in the next five years”, concludes Sridhar.

Awards & Accomplishments

• Aegis Graham Bell Award: For Innovation in Cloud Services (2013)
• CIO Choice Award: Public Cloud Services (2014)
• CII National award for Excellence in Energy Management– Energy Efficient Unit(2012)
• Business Continuity and Resilience Award: Recovery Company(2010)
• SME Channel : Best Data Centre (2013)
• CII National award for Excellence in Energy Management: Innovative Project (2012)
• CII energy management won in 2014


Salient Features of Ctrl 4C

• Needs like High Availability, disaster recovery and business continuity are addressed automatically.
• Offers unparalleled security
• Monitoring alerts using enterprise-class monitoring tool with Ctrl4C
• Certified Processes - ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 20000:1
• Redundant network offering 99.995% uptime SLA, the highest in the Industry
• Asia's Largest Tier 4 Datacenter
• 24X7 Live technical support & 14 COE Backed managed services
• Ctrl4C gives greatest importance to compliance and uses a series of certified processes


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