SUN MICROSYSTEMS INDIA AND NETMAGIC SOLUTIONS IN STRATEGIC ALLIANCE TO PROVIDE WEB-HOSTING SERVICES FOR INDIAN START UPS

Customers of Sun’s Startup Essential Program offered more options for web-hosting through NetMagic’s hosting services from India data center

New Delhi, June 5 2008: Sun Microsystems India, world leaders in innovative networking computing technologies and NetMagic, India’s leading managed IT services provider today announced a strategic alliance to help startups in India and provide them access to Sun’s technologies and services from Sun and NetMagic. As per the alliance, NetMagic will be Sun’s hosting partner to provide web-hosting and managed services to Sun’s customers in their Startup Essentials (SSE) program. The alliance marks the first ever-local partnership for the SSE program in India to offer web-hosting services to Sun’s customers in the country.

The SSE program was launched in the United States in November 2006 and over 2500 companies are part of the program today. Sun extended the program to India due to the rapid growth in numbers of developers and startups in this region in August 2007. In a short span of 8 months the SSE program has met with an overwhelming response from the Indian start up community The SSE program (http://in.sun.com/startup) also offers start-ups the ability to subscribe to web-hosting services through NetMagic’s technologies from Sun partners at deeply discounted rates thus freeing them of the hassle of maintaining their own data centers.

This alliance gives Sun Microsystems’ SSE program customers access to reliable and flexible hosting solutions from Net magic powered by groundbreaking Sun technologies, software and services hosted at NetMagic’s world class data centers and backed by expert advice from Sun on most pressing technical questions.

Commenting on the venture with Netmagic, Mr. K.P Unnikrishnan, Director – Marketing, Alliance and Teleweb Sales, Sun Microsystems India said, “When we launched the SSE program in India, we were offering web-hosting services through two US based companies. As our program grew manifold, the feedback we received from the market was to also have a local web-hosting provider and offer more choice to our customers. In NetMagic we found a perfect fit, not only because they have data centers in India but also considering their world class internet data centers combined with advanced technology and professional service capabilities, to deliver mission critical hosted applications to their customers in a secure and seamless manner. Over the years NetMagic has established a good mind share within the start up community in India besides providing them with world class internet data centers and professional services This partnership will continue to ensure that our customers have access to superior technology.”

“We believe this tie up with NetMagic will help us further penetrate the start up sector in India by making our offerings more relevant and appealing to the Indian startup landscape,” he further added.

Mr. Kishore Badami, VP- Global Marketing, Netmagic Solutions commenting on the alliance said, “Web-hosting has become an essential component of any web application today. Our world-class Internet datacenters provide the ideal hosting environment for organizations irrespective of their size. We are extremely happy to have been selected by Sun Microsystems for their customers. Sun’s incredibly popular and industry leading servers, Solaris operating system and virtualization technologies available at significantly discounted prices, helps to reduce the cost of web hosting for the start up companies while providing them the infrastructure to build scalable, reliable, high-performance, and secure solutions to support and grow their new business.”

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer(TM)” — has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.

About NetMagic:

NetMagic Solutions is India’s leading IT services provider and helps companies manage their mission-critical applications more efficiently and cost-effectively. This is achieved by combining infrastructure solutions, technology leadership and business insight to achieve business goals. Our business offering spreads across Internet Data Centers, Mail & Messaging, Managed Hosting Services and Remote Infrastructure Management.

More than 500 customers worldwide rely on NetMagic for ensuring high availability, seamless performance and security of mission critical hosted Applications. These are delivered through state-of-the-art Internet Data and Network Operation centers in India and the US. All our data centers are ISO 27001 certified and SAS-70 Type II compliant. Over 6000 servers and network devices are hosted and managed remotely in state-of-the-art datacenters in Mumbai, Bangalore and the US, with complete N+1 redundancy on all systems – no single vendor / technology dependency.

Our customers include market leaders from Industry Verticals of Banking and financial services, e-Commerce, Education, Hospitality, Healthcare, IT& ITES, Logistics, Manufacturing and Media. Netmagic delivers world class services to its customers in association with its channel and Alliance partners.

www.netmagicsolutions.com

For further information, please contact:
SUN MICROSYSTEMS

Bipasha Chakrabarti

PR and Communications Manager

Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd.

Ph: 080- 66930600 ext 89659

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Manpreet Singh / Sanjay Chaudhary,

Vaishnavi Corporate Communications,

9810286337 / 9810203810

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NetMagic Solutions

Melissa Saldanha

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