Allied Digital Launches Remote Management Services

Allied Digital Services Ltd, Systems Integrator and an IT Infrastructure Management Services Provider in India, on September 14, 2007 has announced the launch of Remote Management Services consisting of Network Operation Centre (NOC) and Information Security Operation Centre (SOC) at Millennium Business Park, Mahape, STPI.

These Remote Management Services are supported by Intel Inc, E-Cop Singapore & HP.

Mr. Nitin Shah, Chairman and Managing Director of the Company said, "We have developed technological depth over the years by serving the domestic market. The overall project plan has been devised with a view to leverage on our current strengths to address international markets and expanding our revenue base in Indian market. The managed services initiatives like Network Operating Centre (NOC) and Security Operating Centre (SOC) are identified as potential revenue growth segments, even as per major industry analysts. We will also address international markets for the similar services with highly competitive prices by taking the advantage of lower costs of technical manpower in India. This will allow customers to expect high value services at fixed monthly affordable costs."

Yankee Group, an international research group estimates the 2006 managed security services market is approximately $4 billion, including consulting and professional services revenue. The Group estimates the market to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14% from 2006 through 2010.

About Allied Digital Services Ltd :

Allied Digital, a Systems Integrator and IT Infrastructure Management Services Provider, operates across a network of 92 locations in 25 states across India and with a team of around 1,250 employees country-wide. Allied enables global, large and medium enterprises and service providers to reduce their total cost of ownership using a combination of onsite and remote services, a preferred choice for outsourced technical support for business-to-business, business-to-consumer, e-commerce and corporate internal environments.

Allied Digital seeks to enhance its position as a provider of Integrated IT services by addressing new geographies, acquiring new markets, products and services via strategic acquisitions as well as inorganic growth through cross-selling and up-selling. In addition, growth is achieved through sales, marketing initiatives, and strategic deals with OEM's, technology partners, to offer technology solutions, managed services and professional services to global customers.

Recently, the Company had a strategic tie-up with Echelon to foray into Intelligent Building Management and Energy Management Solutions. The Company's focus is to invest in future opportunities by expanding in high potential service lines (TBPO and RMS), profitable complex technology and business solutions. It aims to stay ahead by leveraging early-mover advan in emerging technologies like intelligent Business technician visits, proactive security to defend the business' integrity and energy efficient performance to power the innovative applications. This technology will help Managed Services Providers like Allied Digital to bring the benefit of remote management to a vast number of customers at very affordable prices. Intel vPro technology will enable Allied Digital to offer managed services to the customers in India and abroad from their State of the art Network Operations Center."

The Security Operations Center facility has state-of-the-art Physical Security Systems ranging from Biometric access control, Closed Circuit TV, Fire-detection and Suppression systems. The SOC will provide Proactive Protection and Risk Management for Enterprise Security round the clock to the customers.

Allied digital has tied-up with one of the leading commercial Security Operations Center player e-Cop from Singapore.

"From our 24x7x365 facilities SOC security technology allows organizations to fully leverage our specialized expertise in managing one of the most difficult and complex tasks in info-Security today i.e. round-the-clock security risk management, seamless network security monitoring, and real-time response to security threats and violations. We will also address large corporates, Banking / Finance and Insurance service providers within India and abroad who are most vulnerable to security threats and wants to mitigate the same efficiently and cost-effectively," said Mr. Shah.

The Network Operations Center will provide remote network management services to customers. This facility is built around state-of-the-an Network, Sewer and Application management technologies from HP Open view and LANDesk. This service works 24x7 and is staffed with experts having years of experience on desktops, servers, operating systems, messaging, databases, directory servers and backup systems. The NOC service is charged on a monthly pay-as-you-go basis per device. NOC will cover monitoring and management of a wide variety of device & platforms and applications. Commenting on NOC Mr. Shah said, "we will use combination of industry standard remote monitoring & Management Systems (BMS), Managed Security Services (MSS) and 'Cheque Truncation Services' (CTS).

The stock was trading at Rs.357.25, down by Rs.3.90 or 1.08%. The stock hit an intraday high of Rs.379.90 and low of Rs.351.05. The total traded quantity was 585435 compared to 2 week average of 422966.

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