‘Cyberoam’ to roam big In Sri Lanka

Zainul Meeadh

An interview With Sunil Sharma (Vice President, Sales, India and SAARC, Elitecore Technologies)

Expanding the growth of IT industry and telecommunication in Sri Lanka while introducing Sri Lanka with the latest technologies and software we are looking ahead for a country which is about to be sound in every aspect of life. Technology, being one of the leading aspects at this.

With the above intentions in mind and more to provide Avian Technologies Sri Lanka had joined hands with Cyberoam, a product launched by Elitecore Technologies. This is purpose-built for comprehensive network security and performance needs of small, medium and large enterprises in many different businesses.

Daily News had an interview with Sunil Sharma – Vice President, Sales, India and SAARC, Elitecore Technologies, as he concluded his recent visit to the island. To finalize some of their last rounds of meetings with their tele-communication partners as a part of their co and future plans. Speaking with Sharma who was also assisted by Ranil Francisco, Director Avian Technologies, spoke about the company’s performance, increasing enterprise focus and future plan initiatives, co plans in Sri Lanka and nationwide channel meet.

Talking about the Product, Sharma explained; “Cyberoam’s product range offers network security (Cyberoam UTM appliances), centralized security management (Cyberoam Central Console appliances), centralized logging and reporting (bentod are), endpoint data protection (Cyberoam Endpoint Data Protection appliances) to corporations. Cyberoam UTM provides comprehensive Internet security by integrating a range of security features Firewall–VPN (SSL VPN & IPSec), Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Anti-Spam, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Content & Application Filtering, Web Application Firewall in addition to enhanced productivity through Bandwidth Management, Multiple Link Management for Load Balancing and Gateway Failover, over a single platform.”

Sunil brings an extensive experience of 20+ years in the IT industry in the field of computers, Storage and Security.

He has worked with almost all possible sales channels – SI, VAR, ISP, Resellers, Dealers, Retail, OEM. His end customer experience has also been across all segments – Enterprise, SME, SMB, SOHO.

He said, “The need of this product in Sri Lanka is unexpectedly high, as a result of which we are expected to widen the operations in Sri Lanka within the next few months.”

Sharma, highly commended the service and cooperation that had been led by Avian Technologies in Sri Lanka and re assured, they’d continue to hold hands with Sri Lanka through Avian Technologies as their main partner.

Speaking about future plans for Sri Lanka, Fransisco said, “We are investing in a large team of players in the market. We are looking ahead at a tough competition from our opponents, but with a product like Cyberoam in our hands, the markets look pretty clear.”

Sharma was also thankful for the corporate partners who had held successful meetings. “My next visit to Sri Lanka will include the final formalities of signing bonds with other partners we are planning to join hands with in Sri lanka,” he concluded.