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Airtel Partners With IBM to Expand Airtel Cloud With AI-Ready Services and New MZRs in Mumbai and Chennai

The move signals intensifying investment in India's AI cloud market following Google's $15 billion data-centre pledge.

The IBM company logo is pictured during the Viva Tech start-up and technology summit in Paris, France, May 25, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
Bharti Airtel Partners with IBM to Augment Airtel Cloud | Image: Airtel
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Overview

  • Airtel will offer IBM services through Airtel Cloud, enabling deployments such as AI-ready servers for regulated sectors including banking, healthcare and government.
  • The companies plan two Multizone Regions in Mumbai and Chennai to bolster resiliency and support continuity for mission-critical workloads.
  • Bharti Airtel will expand its cloud availability zones in India from four to ten, hosted on its next-generation sustainable data centres.
  • Airtel Cloud was launched in August by Airtel’s digital unit Xtelify as the company moved to build domestic cloud capacity.
  • The announcement follows Google's plan to invest $15 billion to build an AI data centre in Andhra Pradesh, where Airtel is a partner for a facility in Visakhapatnam.