Do Indian IDCs provide uptime guarantees and SLAs?

Very few Indian IDC’s provide uptime guarantees and SLA’s. SatyamHosting provides a comprehensive SLA which includes credit to clients against no delivery of commitments made and also a SLA committed uptime of 99.6%!

Are Indian IDCs secured enough? Do they have well-laid out internal security policies and guidelines.

The pivot around which outsourcing of hosting critical applications revolves for companies to even consider IDC premises is "security". This covers both physical and data security. IDC’s in India benchmarked against global standards do have well laid out physical and security measures. In Satyam Infoway, there are tools/devices needed to provide security as well as a dedicated expert security team manning the premises round the clock. There are elaborate processes to implement and monitor these measures. Physical measures include CC TV cameras, motion sensors, proximity cards, palm geometry scanning and finger printing scanning.Data Security measures include outer perimeter security, intrusion detection, managed firewall services, operating system hardening, vulnerability analysis, patch testing and applications

Am I going to get my money’s worth by hosting in India?

This is one question which cannot be answered in yes/no. The company seeking an Internet presence provider needs to look at the decision holistically. Consider geography of the target audience, coordination and so on and weigh the cost options along with the qualitative aspects to evaluate money’s worth.