Gurgaon, Haryana, Tuesday 19 Jan, 2010

“Making World Class Technology and Business Applications more accessible and affordable for the Small-Medium Enterprise”

Catalyst launched the first tier 3++ Green Data Center – one of its own kinds in Africa, Middle East and Asia. It is a major step inline with Catalyst’ long-term vision of offering end to end IT service portfolio with minimum Total Cost of Ownership for the customers. The Catalyst Data Center offers the following services:

Managed Services: Server management, Oracle and related Business Applications management, Education delivery, Disaster recovery & back-up for business continuity.

Hosting Services: Dedicated hosting, Shared hosting, Virtualized Private Servers.

Value Added Services: SaaS (Software as a Service), Offshore support, Helpdesk, Hosted web and email services, Digitization, Data-warehousing, Data-mining, Data Center Consulting.

A Data Center can be summarized as “A Server Farm”, which can securely house computer systems and associated components with uninterrupted access to Applications through Internet and being run 24X7 by best of the breed certified resources.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Anupam Awasthi, CEO, Catalyst said that “We feel proud to announce the launch of this unique Tier 3++ Datacenter. We have now been able to progress ourselves to become a true “Glocal” – Global yet Local, Green IT Company with a fully functional and successful presence in 11 countries and 4 continents”.

Catalyst continues to expand its network and hold to be a market leader in the industry. “Catalyst Datacenter is our vision of making technology more affordable for the Small-Medium Enterprise”, Amol Awasthi, the COO added. “This is the first data bridge extended from India to Africa creating competitive edge for smaller players reducing drastically the time to market for their services and product offerings at a fractional cost”, Dr. Rabindra Chakraborty ,VP, Technology says.

Prosanta Kumar Ray, VP of Finance expresses, “As a major co-location provider and data centre builder, Catalyst provides savings on Capital and operational expenditure to the clients thus mitigating cash flow challenges in this challenging Economy”. Elaborating on the market needs, Jean Baptiste Blanc, VP sales comments, “Catalyst is a one stop shop for your IT infrastructure, On-Demand Oracle Solutions including Hyperion, Embedded Technologies, Education, and Datacenter managed services”.

Educating us on Datacenter, Jay Kalra, VP Operations said, ” Catalyst Datacenter used the industry leading technology framework that is specially built for managed services with the highest level of security and instant fallback mechanism to offer highest SLAs for the Middle East, Africa and Asian markets. Compact space utilization and usage state of the art green technology demonstrate the uniqueness of our datacenter”

Ehab Badr, VP Delivery states “With Catalyst, any customer can get a head start without waiting for long IT implementations and training timelines by utilizing Catalyst’s services and global resource knowledge base consisting of French, Arabic & English proficiency. We honor that the customer should focus only on their core businesses”.

Catalyst commenced humble operations with two offices in 2002 manned with five people, headed by Mr. Anupam Awasthi, CEO with head-quarters in San Jose, the capital of Silicon Valley in USA.

Catalyst is a global IT leader in systems integration – bridging the gap between local business requirements and global leading-edge technology. Catalyst offers deep expertise in the roadmap definition, implementation, upgrade, maintenance, and training for the Oracle E-Business Suite and ICT applications as well as next-generation solutions using GIS, RFID, vehicle tracking, electronic billing, digitization, and Smart Cards. Headquartered in San Jose, California, in the United States, Catalyst has offices in Middle East, Africa, and South East Asia.