Pakistan’s leading telecom and ICT services provider, PTCL Group (PTCL & Ufone 4G) announced today that it is leveraging Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes and Red Hat Application Foundations. These are a comprehensive set of components for developing and modernizing software to strengthen the Group’s digitalization ambitions.
Red Hat Application Foundations can be used with applications that run
on-premises or in the cloud when combined with Red Hat OpenShift, creates a
platform that streamlines execution across the application lifecycle. This
helps reduce Capex and Opex expenditure, improve efficiency with faster
rollouts and automated pipelines, thus allowing businesses to accelerate
innovation for gaining a competitive advantage. The collaboration will not only
help PTCL Group transition its legacy applications towards a more robust and
scalable microservices-based architecture, but also provide advanced cloud
services for its customers.
Red Hat OpenShift provides a cloud-native, unified application
platform that enables organizations to quickly build, deploy, run and manage
applications across a hybrid cloud. The Red Hat deployment fulfills PTCL
Group’s technology requirements for moving to
microservices-based applications. Its new OpenShift-based platform is
capable of scaling horizontally in a cross-cloud architectural approach,
spreading across on-premises and other cloud providers including major hyperscalers
such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
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Commenting on the collaboration, Group Chief Technology &
Information Officer, PTCL & Ufone 4G
Jafar Khalid said, "By embracing this innovative platform, Red Hat
Application Foundations on Red Hat OpenShift, the Group is poised to transform
its legacy architecture, enhance its future readiness, reduce operational
costs, and deliver state-of-the-art services to its customers. The
collaboration with Red Hat, a leading provider of enterprise open-source
solutions, helps position PTCL Group at the forefront of the industry and
enables the adoption of industry best practices like Continuous Integration and
Continuous Deployment (CI / CD) and Open API Gateway. Beyond PTCL Group, this
initiative contributes to Pakistan's digital transformation and seeks to foster
greater automation and agility, ultimately driving progress, innovation and
growth."
Speaking on the collaboration, Ayham Alzaaim, Regional Director Telco,
Media & Entertainment, Middle East, Turkey and Africa, Red Hat, said, “Red
Hat is pleased to support PTCL Group with its ambitions to deliver new services
and better experiences ahead of the curve for its customers. With Red Hat, PTCL
Group gains greater flexibility and consistency for developing, scaling, and
enhancing the security of applications with extended interoperability across
clouds.”
Cloud-native development provides the ability to be more flexible and
agile in creating and operating applications, following the best methods for
streamlining integration and deployment. Using the Red Hat-powered platform,
PTCL Group aims to increase its advantage in setting the blueprint for future
and current applications. This shift also shows a strategic move towards more
agility, automation, and DevOps, while embracing the top industry practices. Ends
About PTCL:
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is the largest integrated
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Company of Pakistan. With a humble
start from the telephone and telegraph department in 1947, it has evolved to
offer the latest digital and telecommunication Technology today. It acts as the
communication backbone for the country with the largest fiber cable network
that spans from Khyber to Karachi and submarine cables connecting Pakistan to
the world. PTCL has been assigned initial long-term entity rating of ‘AAA’
(Triple A) and short-term rating of ‘A-1+’ (A-One Plus). For more information,
visit www.ptcl.com.pk
About Ufone 4G:
Ufone 4G is a Pakistani Cellular Company with its presence in all the major
cities of Pakistan along with a comprehensive coverage across all major towns,
villages, and tehsil headquarters of the country. The company employs more than
3,850 people and operates with a network of more than 320 franchises and
company-owned customer service centers along with a distribution network of
150,000 outlets nationwide. For more information, visit www.ufone.com.pk
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