PTCL Smart Cloud — Infrastructure as a Service

“Pakistan’s First truly Flexible & Agile Cloud solution designed to Power up your Growth!”

Businesses today create enormous amounts of data. Storing, processing, and pulling value from that data is no easy task. These unstructured big data solutions demand scalable, powerful infrastructure that can be offered best by none other than the country’s flagship communication operator- “PTCL”.

PTCL Smart Cloud is Pakistan’s One-of-a-kind Build Your Own Cloud server offering enabling our customers to build virtual servers & networks customized to their unique application requirements. Partnering with the industry’s leading hardware & software vendors; PTCL cloud is the country’s only SDN (Software Defined Network) enabled cloud built on Tier-3 certified Data centers to provide service solutions optimized for your business growth.

Best thing about PTCL’s Cloud is that all data on the Cloud is hosted within the country and kept in a safe and secure environment for minimal latency and optimal performance. Moreover PTCL Cloud is certified on all international security standards to guarantee maximum protection for your critical workloads. 

PTCL Smart Cloud is designed to give you a competitive edge for your business. It delivers Infrastructure services through an integrated model leveraging industry’s leading software and hardware solutions to help your business become the market leader in your respective segment.

PTCL has made a significant investment in developing services delivery models and detailed architectures for the design and deployment of public and private cloud solutions for our clients. We offer a complete set of solutions and services for implementing cloud computing.

1. PTCL helps clients to build their own cloud environments developing the right Dynamic Infrastructure and, integrating the IT infrastructure with existing network capabilities.
2. PTCL enables clients to design, build, deliver and market their own Cloud Enabled Services by providing Infrastructure as a Service.
3. PTCL helps clients to mitigate their infrastructure costs by using the Cloud utility pay as you go model.

Our Solutions Portfolio 

BUILD YOUR OWN SMART CLOUD TO POWER UP YOUR BUSINESS

PTCL Smart Cloud’s scalability makes the cloud incredible, without the sacrifices in performance, flexibility and security. Whether You are a start-up, an SME or a large MNC; our custom built Cloud and connectivity solutions have something to offer for everyone.

“Custom Built Cloud Solutions designed for optimal business performance”

Facilitating organizations to achieve their objectives, PTCL recognizes that every business is different and each cloud deployment requires customization with solution elements that make the overall solution unique to the customer, thereby befitting individual business strategies. Whether Your company is a start-up, an SME or a large MNC; our custom built Cloud and connectivity solutions have something to offer for everyone.

Reinvest cost savings and drive transformation with an agile, enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure. Partnering with the industry’s leading hardware & software vendors; PTCL brings You the service solutions optimized for your business growth.

Enhance and build on your existing IT with your choice of cloud-based services. PTCL believes in continuously evolving to best serve our customer needs. Our portfolio of current service offerings includes

Virtual Private Server

“Your own off-the-shelf virtual machine”

Virtual private server is a vanilla VM whereby customer can pick up a virtual server with the configurations that meets their needs and have it provisioned on PTCL smart cloud. VPS is customized server on PTCL smart cloud where Customers can pick a virtual server configuration that meets their needs, or customize one with the vCPU, RAM and Storage to fit their needs. In case of VPS, customer does not have web based interface for modifying resources or the already defined policies.

• Pick a virtual server configuration that meets your needs & have it provisioned on the public cloud
• Rapid provisioning
• Independent of operating systems. Flexibility to run almost any operating system sets of programs on individual servers
• Improved ROI
• Resource Scalability
• Monthly subscription for guaranteed resources

DR as a Service

“Maximize business continuity for enhanced resilience”

PTCL’s DRaaS is a powerful and reliable service to help organizations to avoid the risk of catastrophic disasters. DRaaS is advanced, image-based VM replication which is simple to set up & easy-to-use. DRaaS is a replica of primary site provisioned over cloud offering OS level replication through Veeam Cloud Connect. The Service lets you seamlessly replicate individual virtual servers or entire virtualized infrastructure with a few clicks with complete user control conforming to business defined policies for minimal downtime & maximum business continuity.

• OS level replication through Veeam Cloud Connect
• Replicate individual virtual servers or entire virtualized infrastructure with a few clicks.
• VM Level replication for On-prem VMware/Hyper-V environments as well as infrastructure hosted on PTCL cloud.
• Complete user transparency and control for failover/fallback
• Conforming to your business RPO/RTO
• Operating system independent
• On Demand Scalability
• Minimize downtime
• Secure & encrypted tunnel
• Monthly subscription for guaranteed resources

Backup as a Service

“Optimal security for your business”

PTCL BaaS takes the burden of regular backups and rapid recovery off your internal team, and off your mind. We tailor a backup-and-recovery solution for your business that leverages the best backup technologies in the industry with best practices methodologies. BaaS is a powerful and reliable service to help organizations to avoid the risk of catastrophic data loss, providing Enterprise grade Backup solution (Veeam Backup & Replication) for provisioning Multiple copies of data on PTCL Cloud through Veeam Cloud Connect.BaaS provides OS Level Backup for virtualized environments both On-prem & hosted on PTCL cloud and Agent level backup for on-prem physical infrastructure

•Enterprise grade Backup solution (Veeam Backup & Replication)
•Multiple copies of data on PTCL Cloud through Veeam Cloud Connect.
•OS Level Backup for virtualized environments both On-prem & hosted on PTCL cloud.
•Agent level backup for on-prem physical infrastructure
•Secure & encrypted tunnel
•Volume based monthly subscription

Why Choose PTCL Smart Cloud?

Our Infrastructure

• Pakistan’s Only Enterprise Grade cloud built on Tier-3 certified datacenters

• Enterprise grade hardware with high availability

• Geographically redundant Tier – 3 certified Datacenters

• Internationally proven, Resilient & HA enabled solutions

Our Connectivity

• Local & Secure point-to-point links for seamless business continuity during International submarine outage.

• Low latency rate due to locally hosted Data Centers i.e Karachi & Lahore.

Build Your Own Cloud—Custom built solutions

• Truly Scalable, flexible& customizable to suit your varying needs

• Total user control, access and transparency

• Multi-tenancy capable environment

• Rapid provisioning so You stay ahead of your market

Optimal Security

• PCIDSS certified Cloud Infrastructure

• ISO 2017 & ISO 27017 certified

• End-to-end encrypted tunnel from Customer Premises to PTCL Data Center

• Secure & seamless multi-site topography

• Security with policy control and DDOS protection

Certifications