Softlogic powers up secure software defined data centre at LankaPay

Softlogic Information Technologies and LankaPay team members at the successful completion of the LankaPay data centre. Team members (from left): Softlogic Information Technologies Director Sales and Marketing – Enterprise Business Solutions Reza Junaid, LankaPay Deputy Chief Executive Officer Dinuka Perera, Softlogic Information Technologies Director/CEO Roshan Rassool, LankaPay Chief Information Officer Dilantha Samarasinghe, and LankaPay Manager – IT Lakshanth Jayasekara 

Softlogic Information Technologies said yesterday it has powered secure software defined data centre at LankaPay. 

The move is in response to catering to ever increasing demand for digital payments as LankaPay continues to upgrade its infrastructure as a part of the company’s ongoing technology transformation journey. 

Speaking of the upgrade and migration to a hyper convergent infrastructure, LankaPay AGM – IT Dilantha Samarasinghe said: “Upgrading the Common Card and Payment System (CCAPS) to cater to the growing demand and capacity building is high on our agenda. As the operator of the national payment switch, we wish to lead the industry in adopting the latest technologies and the recent infrastructure modernisation where we transferred data centre infrastructure to a modern Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) architecture to ensure that the data centre infrastructure provides the agility and scalability is one such noteworthy initiative. 

“The new environment provides us with greater agility with few significant exceptions to the traditional data centres, most notably through the use of virtualisation, abstraction, resource pooling, and automation. Softlogic Information Technologies delivered a flawless upgrade and data migration from traditional Virtualized infrastructure to a Hyperconverged infrastructure at our Disaster Recovery Site with a minimum downtime which is indeed commendable. The new VM ware infrastructure has offered us with unprecedented scalability and much needed agility to cater to the growing demands and smoother migration enabled us to minimize interruptions to our services which is critical to our operations.”

Softlogic Information Technologies Director/CEO Roshan Rassool said: “Architecting and implementing a highly agile and secure data centre is central to LankaPay’s strategy in expanding the digital economy of Sri Lanka. The successful development of the LankPay software defined data centre (SDDC) is a monumental achievement for us. SDDC is the next generation of technology in data centres and provides key benefits where you can dramatically reduce the time to provision new resources and be vendor independent. It no longer takes days or weeks to set up a new physical server, provide more storage capacity to an application or modify physical networking. We are truly amazed in the way LankaPay has embraced the new technology and we thank them for providing us the opportunity to be part of their digital journey.”

Softlogic Information technologies Ltd.’s (SITL) successful completion of the LankaPay data centre is attributed to the 30 years of experience and sustained success in catering to the highly demanding technology market both locally and internationally, and its uncompromising dedication to the growth of Sri Lanka’s ICT sector. SITL today is a leader in data centre implementations and virtualisation platforms in Sri Lanka. Many banks, financial institutions, manufacturing enterprises and large/mid-size corporates work with SITL to ensure that their data centre solutions are securely implemented according to industry best practices. At present SITL hold the Titanium partner status for Dell and also hold the principal partner status for VMware. SITL is also a strong player in the cyber security business in Sri Lanka.