SLT partners Citrix to enhance Cloud platform

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has entered into a partnership with Citrix Systems Inc, a provider of cloud services, mobile workspaces, virtualisation, mobility management and networking services, to strengthen SLT's Akaza Cloud platform.

Citrix Cloud Platform will empower SLT Akaza Cloud offerings to make SLT customers' IT infrastructure more agile and efficient infrastructure via Akaza cloud applications.

The state-of-the-art services offered by Akaza include, 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 and select the exact amount of resources they need - be it storage, computing power, RAM or software.

Organisations get to build powerful 'pay as you go' and 'pay as you grow' model-based cloud solutions that users can access with consistent levels of quality and security wherever they are expanding.

Group Chief Executive Officer, SLT, Lalith de Silva 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 enterprise clients to focus on strategic directives of their core business by minimising their daily fire-fights on hardware, software, infrastructure and applications to help broaden their business horizons."

"Akaza is an important platform which is developer-focused with infrastructure readiness for the growing ICT sector in Sri Lanka," he said.

Chief Enterprise and Wholesale Officer, SLT, Kiththi Perera said, "SLT's islandwide 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 full-fledged data centre manages organisations' mission critical infrastructure and applications.

The company helps to strengthen business organisations while ensuring reliability, security and scalability, backed by professional support," he said.

Cloud Service Program Manager and General Manager Enterprise Solutions, 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 (ISV's) are increasingly transforming their applications and abilities from legacy to a cloud based multi-tenanted environment," he said.

SLT Akaza, powered by the open standards of the Citrix Cloud Platform, is the catalyst in brokering supply and demand to deliver cutting edge ICT services to customers on an 'As-A-Service' model in the state-of-the-art Data Centre environment.