IBM announced a collaboration with Lanka Bell, to provide enterprises, start-ups, developers and government bodies cloud services via the IBM Cloud.
As a part of the agreement, the two companies will jointly market new offerings for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments, including workload migrations, disaster recovery and capacity expansion solutions via the IBM Cloud.
With its agreement with IBM, Lanka Bell will expand its portfolio to include a wide range of cloud solutions. For example, in addition to IaaS and PaaS services, the IBM Cloud infrastructure will enable Lanka Bell to offer clients back-up storage, virtual machines and virtual storage facilities which can be integrated with the IBM NAS (Network Access Service) solutions.
“This partnership with IBM and demonstrates our shared vision that will help enterprise customers in the country to embrace cloud offerings quickly and easily,” said Managing Director, Lanka Bell, Dr. Prasad Samarasinghe.
RGM, Sri Lanka, IBM, Chrishan Fernando said, “IBM cloud is open by design, offering a set of tools, flexibility and agility that helps organizations to easily translate their innovative ideas into technical solutions.”