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Datasur and Velocity Tech Join Forces to Accelerate Cloud Innovation in Suriname and the Caribbean

Rawiesh Behari Newsletter November 7, 2025
Caption: Alfredo Mena – Regional Sales Manager – Nutanix, Gustavo Sosa – Senior Solutions Architect – Nutanix, Anvit Ramlakhan – CEO of Datasur, Nisha Soekha – Commercial Affairs Manager of Datasur, Alberto Gonsales – President – Velocity Tech Solutions LLC

Paramaribo, Suriname — November 7, 2025 — Datasur, Suriname’s leading provider of secure IT infrastructure and cloud services, and Velocity Tech, a Nutanix-certified technology solutions provider, have formalized their collaboration through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at advancing private and hybrid cloud adoption across Suriname and the wider Caribbean.

The partnership combines Datasur’s trusted local data center expertise with Velocity Tech’s Nutanix-based hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions, empowering organizations to modernize their IT environments with greater agility, scalability, and security.

“This collaboration marks a significant step forward in strengthening the region’s cloud ecosystem,” said Anvit Ramlakhan “By joining forces with Velocity Tech and leveraging Nutanix’s proven technology we’re helping local businesses accelerate their digital transformation journeys while keeping data secure and local.”

Through this partnership, Datasur and Velocity Tech are developing go-to-market strategies focused on driving digital innovation and IT modernization across industries such as finance, government, education, and enterprise sectors in Suriname and the Caribbean.

Their first joint event, held on October 31, marked the official launch of their partnership activities. During the event, experts from Datasur, Velocity Tech, and Nutanix shared insights, best practices, and real-world solutions to help Surinamese organizations harness the power of modern private and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

“We’re excited to be working alongside Datasur to bring enterprise-grade Nutanix solutions to the region,” said Alberto Gonsales “And having Nutanix represented here today underscores our shared commitment to innovation, performance, and reliability.”

With this collaboration, Datasur and Velocity Tech, together with Nutanix, reaffirm their commitment to advancing the regional digital economy, fostering knowledge exchange, and empowering local businesses to thrive in an increasingly connected world.

About Datasur
Datasur is Suriname’s premier ISO 27001/ 22301 data center and ICT services provider, offering secure hosting, backup, disaster recovery, cloud and IT infrastructure (development) solutions tailored to the needs of the local and regional market.

About Velocity Tech
Velocity Tech is a technology solutions company and certified Nutanix partner, specializing in hyperconverged infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and IT modernization solutions for enterprises across the Caribbean and Latin America.

About Nutanix
Nutanix is a global leader in hybrid multicloud computing, enabling organizations to run applications and manage data seamlessly across datacenters, public clouds, and edge environments.

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Commercial Affairs Manager with a passion for turning ideas into impact. With 7+ years of experience in business development and strategy, I’ve helped companies grow, built lasting partnerships, and driven initiatives that spark innovation and create new opportunities. I thrive on connecting people, shaping creative solutions, and building strategies that deliver real value.

Always curious, always learning, and always ready to create what’s next.

Jurgen Schmeltz has as a Bachelor's degree in Information and Communication Technology and several IT certifications. His IT career started in Johannesburg, South Africa at IBM where he gained international experience for 5 years. When he came back to Suriname, he worked for two IT companies and also gained experience in VOIP, Backup Solutions and Microsoft Products.

At the moment Jurgen is a Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure Specialist with many years of experience in the field of Microsoft Virtualization, Workplace Automation, Backup, Replication and Data Center Infrastructure. He currently holds the position of Operations Manager and is responsible for managing the Datacenter Operations such as Cloud and Network infrastructure.

Furthermore, he is also responsible for managing daily Facility Operations of the Datasur Datacenters and Project Lead for Cloud and Datacenter expansion projects. In his free time he’s a parttime lecturer at the two technical Universities in Suriname.

On behalf of Datasur Jurgen Schmeltz is also chairman of SUR-IX. The Suriname Internet Exchange Point which will be operational before the end of 2022

Sheetal Ganput is a strategically strong and socially engaged professional with a Ph.D. in Leadership & Management and an M.Sc. in Business Management. She currently serves as the General Affairs Manager at Datasur, where she is responsible for HR, legal affairs, office management, supply chain, strategy, governance, risk & compliance (GRC), and contributes to organization-wide policy development.

In addition to her role at Datasur, Sheetal is active as a thesis supervisor, sharing her knowledge with future professionals. She also holds board positions at the American Chamber of Commerce in Suriname (AmCham) and the Center for Communication & PR (CCPR), further emphasizing her commitment to both the business sector and social development.

Her style is characterized by vision, decisiveness, and a strong dedication to growth—both on a personal, organizational, and national level.

Our CEO, Dr. Anvit Ramlakhan is a prolific strong inspiring inclusive young professional leader from Suriname, working in different fields to contribute for the betterment of humanity and the world. He is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the ICT industry for several years, with a widespread of skills in operations, quality, risk, project, business, strategy, product portfolio management (just to name a few). At Datasur Anvit oversees the total company performance on strategical level, with a strong focus on business growth, innovation, customer experience and financial profitability.

Furthermore, Anvit contributes to development of the Surinamese youth by lecturing and tutoring at four university study organizations in Suriname on undergraduate and postgraduate levels within study fields such as ICT, Electrical engineering, Organization management, Process management, Business intelligence, MBA, etc.

He has a strong professional background with a cum laude doctorate (Ph.D. in Management- Information and Technology) from the Akamai University in USA, Master of Science (M.Sc.) with merit in Information Systems from Anglia Ruskin University in London, UK and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Telecommunications from Anton de Kom University in Paramaribo, Suriname. He currently is finishing up his MBA in Strategic Management and Leadership at the London School of International Business, London, UK.

Anvit has several prolific leadership and business certifications, ongoing humanity service, extensive spiritual drive and a personal theme which is as follows: “Continuous progressive successful excellence”. He is part of volunteer organization HSS for 20+ years, through which character molding, collaboration and way of living for the youth is created and augmented.

In January 2022 he has been elected for two years as Chairman of the ICT Association in Suriname, in order to help strategize the sustainable digital economic development of Suriname. Furthermore he also has been elected as Chairman for the Suriname Business Youth Association in June 2021 for a period of two years, whereby development and support of young entrepreneurs and professionals is one of the main goals. Anvit is also part of the presidential working groups on areas of e-Government and wage council.