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 organizations easy to use, self-managed web-based portals of maximum flexibility for organizations 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.

Mr. Lalith De Silva, Group Chief Executive Officer of SLT commenting 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 minimizing 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 Mr. 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.”(KH)