Sify.com Launches Interactive Gaming Site 'ANTZILL'


CHENNAI, India, January 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Introduces Exclusive Rewards Program That Earns Gamers Attractive 
Prizes

Sify Technologies Limited (Nasdaq: SIFY), a leader in Consumer
Internet and Enterprise Services in India, announced the launch of 'ANTZILL'
- an interactive gaming site with a vast array of community features.
Designed especially for young gaming enthusiasts, the site provides them with
a platform to challenge, play and interact with other gamers. Antzill was
developed and designed after taking research inputs from consumers across the
country.

Venkata Rao, EVP and Head, Portals and Consumer Marketing,
Sify Technologies Limited said, "Sify is committed to understanding the
Indian consumer and is at the forefront of bringing them the best user
experience across all its services. In line with this, Antzill is the only
gaming portal in the country which offers a rewards program that provides
every gamer an opportunity to redeem points for attractive prizes.

"Our objective is to offer multiple gaming options to the
consumer and allow them to enjoy a number of privileges including challenging
other gamers, maintaining personal profiles, rating favorite games, scrapping
friends and encashing points earned against prizes like i-pods and mobile
phones on Sifymall".

Antzill hosts a unique feature, the Friend Leader Board,
wherein gamers can check the top scores for all games. This special feature
helps them boost their competitive spirit by challenging their friends and
family to fight it out on the virtual field.

Antzill has over 75 scoring and 400 non-scoring games on
display, genre wise arrangement of games to appeal to all categories of
gamers and help them choose their favorite genre including sports, racing,
strategy, puzzle etc.

Gaming in India is growing at the rate of 50% per annum and
the key drivers of this sector are casual gamers who are school and college
going youth in the age group of 17-25. Most gaming happens on action, sports
and racing.

For more details on Antzill, log on to: http://games.sify.com/

About Sify

Sify is among the largest Managed Enterprise and Consumer
Internet Services companies in India, offering end-to-end solutions with a
comprehensive range of products delivered over a common telecom data network
infrastructure reaching 500+ cities and towns in India.

A significant part of the company's revenue is derived from
Corporate Services, which include corporate connectivity, network and
communications solutions, security, network management services, enterprise
applications and hosting. Sify is recognized as an ISO 9001:2000 certified
service provider for network operations, data center operations and customer
support, and for provisioning of VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP solutions and
integrated security solutions, and ISO 27001 certified for Internet Data
Center operations. Sify has licenses to operate NLD (National Long Distance)
and ILD (International Long Distance) services and offers VoIP back haul to
long distance subscriber telephony services. The company is India's first
enterprise managed services provider to launch a Security Operations Center
(SOC) to deliver managed security services. A host of blue chip customers use
Sify's corporate service offerings.

Consumer services include broadband home access, dial up
connectivity and the e-port cyber cafe chain across 180 cities and towns.
Sify.com the consumer portal of Sify has sub portals like
http://www.samachar.com, http://www.walletwatch.com, http://www.sifymax.com 
and http://www.chennailive.in, http://www.bangalorelive.in,
http://www.mumbailive.in, http://www.hyderabadlive.in the city based live 
video on the web. The content is available in 5 Indian languages, which 
include Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil.

For more information about Sify visit http://www.sifycorp.com

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking
statements contained herein are subject to risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the
forward-looking statements. Sify undertakes no duty to update any
forward-looking statements.

For a discussion of the risks associated with Sify's business,
please see the discussion under the caption "Risks Related to Our Business"
in the company's report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2008, which
has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and
is available by accessing the database maintained by the SEC at
http://www.sec.gov.

Contact information:

    David Appasamy
    Investor Relations 
    Sify Technologies Limited 
    +91-44-2254-0770 Ext. 2013 
    david.appasamy@sifycorp.com

    Truc N. Nguyen (ext 418) or Christopher Chu (ext. 426)
    Investor Relations
    Grayling Global
    +1-646-284-9400
    tnguyen@hfgcg.com or cchu@hfgcg.com

    Stacy Dimakakos
    Media Relations
    Grayling Global
    +1-646-284-9417
    sdimakakos@hfgcg.com

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