Netmagic now an SAP-certified provider of hosting services

June 21, 2012 - PRLog -- Mumbai, June 21, 2012- For organizations planning to outsource the hosting of their environments running SAP® solutions, they now have another option – hosting services provided by Netmagic Solutions. India's largest pure-play managed IT hosting services company today announced that it is now one of the only SAP-certified providers of hosting services in India. More than 30 enterprises have already chosen Netmagic to host and manage their mission-critical, SAP solution-based environments.

As an SAP-certified provider of hosting services, Netmagic Solutions received certification from SAP AG of its ability to deliver hosting services with high-quality operational standards. To achieve this certification, Netmagic had to undergo an extensive audit by SAP. This audit was conducted to validate if Netmagic's infrastructure and processes conform to SAP's high standards and are suitable to host mission-critical environments running SAP applications.

"Achieving this certification underscores our commitment to supporting mission-critical IT environments for enterprise customers and reinforces our position as a premier provider of managed IT hosting services in India," said Sunil Gupta, President and COO, Netmagic Solutions "Now enterprises in India running SAP solutions can confidently choose to host their mission-critical SAP solution environments with Netmagic"

Netmagic was evaluated on a wide range of criteria, including its services portfolio in support of SAP solutions, quality of its data centers, network and connectivity, managed back-up and disaster-recovery capabilities, IT service management support and delivery processes, application hosting services, and administration and project management skills.

"This certification confirms Netmagic's ability to deliver high-quality hosting services in support of SAP applications," said Michael Ressemann, Global Head, Outsourcing Services and Solution Delivery, SAP AG. "To pass the certification audits, providers must meet high standards, demonstrating the maturity of their service management processes, proficiency of their employees, data-center capabilities and security, as well as redundancies and their back-up and disaster-recovery capabilities. SAP customers can benefit from comprehensive and innovative service offerings from Netmagic, which will help them meet their technical and security requirements in a hosted environment."

About Netmagic
Netmagic Solutions is India's largest pure-play Managed IT Hosting Services Provider. Netmagic Solutions is ISO 27001, ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 20000-1 certified and its processes are designed as per the ITIL framework. Netmagic Solutions delivers mission critical hosted applications for over 1000 of the world's best-known enterprises from multiple locations and has been awarded the 'Datacenter Service Provider of the Year 2011' by Frost & Sullivan. Netmagic's Chennai Datacenter is the only Gold LEED certified datacenter by the USGBC in India. Netmagic has 7 carrier neutral, state-of-the-art datacenters located in Mumbai, Bangalore, Noida (Delhi-NCR) and Chennai with over 2,00,000 sq. ft. floor space. http://www.netmagicsolutions.com

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