ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and IBM Italia SpA (Pakistan) have joined hands to launch Public Cloud Services in Pakistan.
The IBM turnkey solution will be hosted at PTCL’s state-of-the-art Data Centers in Lahore and Karachi for corporate customers.
This is a landmark agreement between two leading industry players. PTCL, using the IBM cloud platform, will be offering cutting edge services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Disaster Recovery Site (DRS), Backup and Storage as a Service along with Webhosting Solutions and Compute on Demand to customers in Pakistan. The IBM cloud platform, equipped with the latest technologies, is an important step forward in developing a viable information technology infrastructure and a natural progression of PTCL’s successful data center business in Pakistan.
On the occasion, PTCL Digital & Corporate Services Chief Officer Kamal Ahmed said, “The PTCL- IBM Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) agreement is an important step forward in our efforts to create greater value, not only for our customers but the entire enterprise segment. Corporate customers and SMEs will now have best-in-class cloud services to benefit from. We believe that this initiative will be a strong catalyst in development of the ICT sector in Pakistan.”
IBM Pakistan General Manager Ghazanfar Ali said, “Cloud is changing the IT landscape across the world. This collaboration brings a reliable in country Public Cloud service built on the well-established capabilities of IBM and PTCL. IBM is a global leader in IaaS due to the differentiation it provides in key areas like Security, Flexibility and Innovation. Now enterprises can focus more on their core business as IBM and PTCL can take care of their infrastructure needs with world-class technology, connectivity and processes.”
