SLT partners Citrix to enhance breakthrough AKAZA Cloud platform
Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:20
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Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), has announced the company’s partnership with Citrix Systems Inc., a global leader in providing cloud services, mobile workspaces, virtualisation, mobility management and networking services to strengthen SLT AKAZA Cloud platform.
SLT believes that the Citrix Cloud Platform will empower SLT AKAZA Cloud offerings to make SLT customers’ IT infrastructures more agile and efficient infrastructures via AKAZA cloud applications. The state-of-the-art services currently offered by AKAZA includes: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Virtual Data Centres (VDC), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), Communication-as-a-Service (CaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
With this partnership, SLT AKAZA Cloud services will provide enhanced offerings that give organisations easy to use, self-managed web-based portals of maximum flexibility for organisations to allow selecting the exact amount of resources they require – be it storage, computing power, RAM, software etc., as and when required. Most importantly organisations get the ability to build powerful ‘pay as you go’ as well as ‘pay as you grow’ model-based cloud solutions that users can access with consistent levels of quality and security wherever they are expanding.
SLT Group Chief Executive Officer Lalith De Silva commenting on this partnership said, “With Citrix’s cloud platform solution, we believe our state-of-the-art AKAZA Cloud solutions that provide the next generation of computing, will definitely empower our valuable enterprise clients to focus on strategic directives of their core business by minimising their daily fire-fights on hardware, software, infrastructure & applications to help broaden their business horizons. Also AKAZA is an important platform which is developer-focused with infrastructure readiness for the growing ICT sector in Sri Lanka.”
Adding further De Silva said, “We see a huge potential in this cloud space and we invite organisations to adopt cloud strategy in their IT projects to benefit from the scalability and cost efficiencies of delivering IT services for their business needs. As the Cloud environment is changing the entire IT delivery model to a service-based mode that operates more efficiently, it will result in enhanced responsiveness to business needs as well as more efficient utilisation of companies’ resources. Further, it will also have a positive impact on Sri Lanka’s economy since it will reduce foreign exchange outflows resulting from the reduced import of IT equipment from foreign countries and the better utilisation of available resources.”
SLT Chief Enterprise and Wholesales Officer Kiththi Perera said, “SLT’s island-wide fibre network and established fibre access networks with built-in redundancies and resiliencies connecting all key business establishments and two state-of-the-art data centres, AKAZA Cloud offers end-to-end cloud computing services to further transform the way organisations operate IT. The company’s fully-fledged data centre offerings manage organisations’ mission critical infrastructure and applications through its rich portfolio. The company helps to strengthen the stability of business organisations while ensuring reliability, security and scalability, backed by professional support.”
Cloud Service Program Manager and General Manager Enterprise Solution M.I. Deen said: “I believe we are at a critical juncture where enterprises are considering ICT solutions on an OPEX model wherein their ICT investments can be incrementally scaled with the growth of their business. Similarly Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are increasingly transforming their applications and capabilities from legacy to a cloud based multi-tenanted environment. SLT AKAZA, powered by the open standards of the Citrix Cloud Platform, is the catalyst in brokering the aforesaid supply and demand to deliver cutting edge ICT services to customers on an ‘As-A-Service’ model, deployed in the state-of-the-art Data Centre environment.
AKAZA IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) platform provides shared computing power to customers, eliminating the need for customers to invest in expensive infrastructure and equipment. SLT’s IAAS platform is spread across the company’s trusted and secure top tier internet data centres (iDC) located in SLT Head Quarters and Welikada, thus assuring customers of a reliable and secure cloud platform with super-fast processing speeds. Through AKAZA, customers will be connected to SLT’s enterprise block storage, the largest cloud storage space in Sri Lanka.
