Sify
hosts recruitment portal cybermediadice.com
The implementation
involved hosting, security & storage and data
center services. The benefits ensured 99.6 uptime
for the network and infrastructure
CyberMedia
Dice Careers Ltd. is a technology focused
job board dedicated to the rapidly growing
technology recruiting sector in India. The
mission at CyberMedia Dice is to help its
clients (Employers and Job-Seekers) source
and hire qualified technology and engineering
professionals. The company is a joint venture
of two specialty technology houses: CyberMedia
and Dice Incorporated. CyberMedia is South
Asia's first and largest specialty media
house. Established in 1982, CyberMedia has
nine publications (including Dataquest,
PC Quest, Voice & Data, Living Digital,
DQ Week, DQ Channels India, Bio Spectrum)
covering the InfoTech, Telecom, Consumer
Electronics and Biotech spectrum. It also
operates 12 websites (incl. http://www.ciol.com)
and organizes events. |
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The group's media
services include market research (IDC India),
content outsourcing, multimedia, gaming, and media
education. www.dice.com is the leading provider
of online recruiting services for technology and
engineering professionals in the United States.
Challenges
:
Since Cybermedia
Dice is a new initiative in India in partnership
with Dice.com, the challenges of setting up of
a similar infrastructure in India was highly critical.
Sourcing a Hosting Partner who could provide a
world-class infrastructure with guaranteed uptimes,
unmatched service quality in India was of utmost
importance.
The challenges
were:
- Identifying a World-Class Data Center in India.
- Identifying a Partner who could provide an
End-to-End solution that would mean procuring
hardware/ software, installation, deployment
& maintenance, co-location and managed services.
- With an eye on future growth, a 'scalable'
architecture was of paramount importance.
- Presence of a robust and redundant domestic
network with international gateways that could
take the load of huge traffic generated from
the job portal.
- Latency reduction was also an integral part
of the mandate.
- The development project for job portal was
done by the Bangalore based Nous Infosystems.
Sify had to work in association and as a team
with them to ensure fulfillment of the Solution
Architecture.
The
Sify Solution :
Sizing:
Sify in sync with Cybermedia Dice's Technology
Partner (Nous Infosystems) proposed the sizing
for the Hardware and the other Managed Services
in the Data Center. A range of Intel servers from
Dell and Netapp Storage (NAS) was procured, installed
and deployed at Sify's Level 3 Data Center at
Vashi, Mumbai. The same is maintained and monitored
round the clock by our skilled engineers.
Hosting
Services: On the Hosting Services front
a number of services were recommended. Besides
basic 'rack space' which includes 24/7 support,
server availability monitoring, DNS entries, service
port monitoring, server hardening, network intrusion
detection systems, bandwidth sizing was done on
a 'pay-as-you-grow' model.
Security
and Storage Services: Setting up of the
NAS, Back-up services, managed shared-firewall
services, and Sify in-house developed specialized
security service 'Fort Knox' were also proposed
and subscribed.
Data
Center Security Umbrella: The Sify Data
Center at Vashi is BS7799 certified which ensures
implementation of stringent security practices.
On the virtual security front, Sify has a built-in
Firewall at the Core Switch through which all
traffic enters the Data Center. A world class
intrusion detection system and anti-virus is also
deployed to provide fool-proof security to the
applications and servers hosted at the Data Center.
Benefits
to CyberMedia Dice
The
solution offered multiple benefits:
- Sify's dedicated backbone enables the
browsers accessing an application in the
Data Center traverse a dedicated path
thereby reducing the number of hops and
lowering latencies. The traffic accessing
the applications in the Data Center does
not go outside of Sify 'backbone', e.g.
into the Internet cloud, thereby enhancing
the browsing experience. Moreover, Sify's
'backbone' is the one and only 'Tier-1'
Network in the country supported by DS3
rings of 45Mbps each, across all major
cities in India.
- A dedicated team in Sify ensured quick
implementation of the application and
ensured that the launch deadlines were
met.
- Sify guaranteed 99.6 percent uptime
for the Network and Infrastructure, and
that is backed by stringent Service Level
Agreements (SLAs).
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- Author:
Manisha Upadhyay |
