Pakistan Telecommunication Company LTD (PTCL) understanding the rapidly changing business environment and its growing reliance upon automation has introduced regions largest Data Centres in Karachi and Lahore. PTCL Data Centres are certified by the internationally recognized certification body, EPI. This certification by an international body is the first data center certification in Pakistans history and proves PTCLs commitment to providing state of the art products and services backed by engineering and support for the Government and Enterprise markets of Pakistan. PTCL has the largest geographically redundant commercial data centres not only in Pakistan but also in the whole region, said a press release issued here Thursday.

PTCL Data Center services is an ideal choice for companies who want the flexibility to house their Primary, Disaster Recovery and/or Business Continuity sites and choose from a variety of cost reducing services as their business demands.

These data centres are part of overall PTCL managed services approach which provides corporate customers not only reduced costs, but also improvements in the availability, performance, resilience and security of an organizations IT systems.

PTCL Data Center solution provides customers Managed and Hosted Cloud based services that comprise of Computing as a Service, Processing as a service, Storage as a Service, Software as a Service, Application Hosting, Infrastructure Hosting, Caging, Co-Location, Disaster Recovery as a service, Backup Solutions, Hosted Business Solutions, Unified Communications and Telepresence switching. This certification by an internationally recognized organization ensures that PTCL Data centres provide a reliable, responsive and resilient infrastructure, is designed and built using international standards and provides a secure, managed, climatically controlled environment for the housing and hosting of sensitive, mission-critical data and applications.

President PTCL Walid Irshaid said: PTCL is heavily investing in these ICT assets on behalf of our customers so that they can focus on their core competencies. Getting Data Centres certified is further evidence that PTCL is committed to provide technology to the Government and Enterprise markets of Pakistan of international standards. As the National Carrier of Pakistan this is not only our obligation but also our duty.

PTCL is the only unified service provider in Pakistan, able to service all customer segments including consumers, enterprise and carries with a comprehensive portfolio of services to cater for all their needs.