Infosys Helps Volantis Achieve Significant Cost Savings with Windows Azure
By Infosys Technologies Limited, PRNEMonday, November 16, 2009
FREMONT, California, November 17 - Infosys Technologies Limited (Nasdaq: INFY) today announced that it has
successfully integrated Volantis Systems(TM) award winning Ubik.com(TM)
service with Windows Azure resulting in significant performance improvements
and cost savings. The Windows Azure platform provides an operating system,
data storage, and a set of developer services for creating a range of
flexible, cost-effective solutions via the cloud.
Volantis, whose solutions help solve the complexity of delivering the
true mobile Internet to thousands of unique devices, looked to Infosys to
implement Windows Azure in order to increase scalability for its Ubik.com
service. Ubik.com is free-to-use and allows small businesses and consumers to
quickly create personalized mobile Internet sites, without having to write a
line of code. The integration of Ubik.com with Windows Azure ensures a
seamless user experience for those accessing Ubik(R), supported by an
integrated Volantis device database containing information on more than 6,700
mobile handsets. Within just four weeks, Volantis and Infosys were able to
create a set of Web services running on Windows Azure that resulted in
significant cost savings.
"Infosys worked closely with Volantis to integrate our system with
Windows Azure," said Mark Watson, CEO, Volantis. "We want our customers to
have the seamless scalability that is available only through the cloud.
Infosys was able to quickly and effectively implement our solution on top of
Windows Azure. Without Infosys, Volantis may well have had to purchase,
deploy and manage new storage infrastructure so this initiative has delivered
significant savings."
As a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, Infosys has worked closely with
the Windows creator over the past eight years to accelerate customers'
competitive business impact through legacy modernization, infrastructure
optimization, enterprise collaboration and other services. By delivering
Microsoft Corp.'s solutions with speed and predictability, Infosys was a
natural choice for Volantis when considering its move to Windows Azure.
As part of Infosys' alliance with Microsoft, the two technology leaders
have been offering cloud-based solutions and services for Windows Azure for
the past two years. Infosys recently opened a Cloud Center of Excellence
(COE) that enables enterprise and ISV customers around the world to adopt
cloud-based IT capabilities through strategic consulting, application
development and migration, as well as through systems management, integration
and monitoring services on the Windows Azure platform.
"With Windows Azure, we're focused on delivering a services platform that
provides partners like Infosys with the ability to build and manage highly
scalable Web applications and services," said Amitabh Srivastava, Senior Vice
President of Windows Azure at Microsoft Corp. "Infosys was able to help
Volantis migrate to Windows Azure in just four weeks which is a prime example
of how Windows Azure can provide cost savings."
"Over the past two years, Infosys has worked closely with Microsoft to
help customers quickly and easily take advantage of the cost-savings,
efficiencies and ease-of-management associated with this next-generation
computing model," says Subu Goparaju, Vice President and Head Software
Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs), Infosys. "A usage-based platform
enables Infosys to deliver solutions on a transaction-based pricing model to
our customers to increase efficiency on a global scale."
Resources:
- Infosys and cloud computing: www.infosys.com/cloud-computing/ - Infosys' cloud computing blog: www.infosysblogs.com/cloudcomputing/ - Windows Azure: www.windowsazure.com/ - Volantis: www.volantis.com/
About InfosysTechnologies Ltd.
Infosys Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) defines, designs and delivers
IT-enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a Flat
World. These solutions focus on providing strategic differentiation and
operational superiority to clients. With Infosys, clients are assured of a
transparent business partner, world-class processes, speed of execution and
the power to stretch their IT budget by leveraging the Global Delivery Model
that Infosys pioneered. Infosys has over 105,000 employees in over 50 offices
worldwide. Infosys is part of the NASDAQ-100 Index and The Global Dow. For
more information, visit www.infosys.com.
About Volantis
Volantis Systems (www.volantis.com) helps organizations solve the
complexity of selling and delivering digital content to thousands of unique
devices, without compromise, to the highest quality user experience,
performance and reliability.
Volantis software is protected by the following granted and pending
patent applications: United Kingdom: 2371896, European Patent EP 1320972
(Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland), pending
European Patent Application EP 1641211 (designating Austria, Belgium, Cyprus,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,
Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United
Kingdom), Hong Kong: HK1049046, Japan: 2002-531257, Singapore: 95431,
200301776-9, India: 325/DEL/03, South Korea: 7004318/03, People's Republic of
China: ZL01819526, US: 10/381802.
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forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties including
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Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2009, and our other
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to update them.
The Americas, Peter McLaughlin of Infosys Technologies Ltd, US, +1-213-622-4949, Ext 209, Peter_McLaughlin at infosys.com, or Asia Pacific, Sarah Vanita Gideon of Infosys Technologies Ltd, India, +91-80-4156-4998, Sarah_Gideon at infosys.com, or Australia, Cristin Balog of Infosys Technologies Ltd, Australia, +61-3-9860-2277, Christin_Balog at infosys.com , or EMEA, Antonia Maneta of Infosys Technologies Ltd, UK, +44-0-207-715-3499, Antonia_Maneta at infosys.com
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