EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH VISHAL SHAH, CO-FOUNDER, AND CEO, SYNERSOFT TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
Multicloud applications are in vogue for the multiple security features they come with. But for medium-scale companies, buying into diversified cloud applications turn out to be a difficult and cumbersome task. Keeping track of multiple consoles, and several APIs and getting accustomed to a variety of procedures all while saving data is a major challenge for MSMEs. Synersoft, a cloud management platform, in order to address multi-cloud management complexities, has developed simple and cost-effective alternatives particularly for preventing data theft and loss. Analytics Insight has engaged in an exclusive interview with Vishal Shah, Co-Founder, and CEO, of Synersoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
1. Kindly brief us about the company, its specialization, and the services that your company offers.
Synersoft Technologies Private Limited makes technologies under the brand name BLACKbox. Under the Make in India initiative, it was named as indigenous technology developed by an Indian company for Indian Business Enterprises. Synersoft is conferred with prestigious awards and recognitions by the Government as well as Private Institutions. BLACKbox helps business enterprises to achieve business continuity and avoid competitive vulnerability by preventing loss, leakage, and theft of data. Synersoft Technologies Private Limited is a portfolio company of CIIE at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. It was founded by Vishal Shah, a serial entrepreneur and technocrat in the year 2008. Synersoft Technologies Private Limited is the owner of the technology and brand known as BLACKbox. It is a disruptive solution specifically designed for Indian Small and Medium Enterprises to prevent data loss, leakage, and theft. BLACKbox is adopted by thousands of Indian SME users to achieve business continuity and avoid competitive exploitation. Synersoft has a presence in most industrial pockets of India where MSMEs are heavily concentrated.
BLACKbox is a popular brand among industries and businesses in India as a cost-effective, simple, and fit-to-purpose AI-enabled product. In 2008, the founders of Synersoft started up with a vision that Indian enterprises will require formidable infrastructure to prevent data theft. This is how the brand BLACKbox was conceptualized to help Indian enterprises to standardize their IT setup to achieve data security. BLACKbox serves as a data center protecting against accidental or intentional data deletion, ransomware recovery solutions, and an off-premise disaster response facility. It also serves as an effective tool to prevent data theft through USB ports, e-mail attachments, and Internet cloud storage drives. With thousands of installations, BLACKbox proves to be the best available indigenously developed solution. BLACKbox is also known as ‘IT in a box’ which serves as a single hardware/software system but with multipurpose hardware/software solutions.
2. With what mission and objectives, the company was set up? In short, tell us about your journey since the inception of the company.
Our company is committed to MSMEs in their pursuit of achieving the prevention of data loss, leakage, and theft. We help thousands of enterprise users to maintain business continuity by preventing data loss from accidental deletion, intentional deletion, ransomware attacks, and disasters. We help thousands of enterprise users to avoid competitive exploitation due to data leakage or theft over USB, through emails, by blind carbon copy, and over the Internet. We help our MSME customers to focus on their core business and let IT matters to us.
