Bharti Airtel, Oracle sign Cloud Infrastructure Deal for Enterprises

Oracle and Bharti Airtel have extended their partnership to support the growth of India’s digital economy by bringing a range of cloud solutions to more than 1 million enterprise customers.

Oracle, Bharti Airtel Pen Cloud Deal

The telco estimated that, with organizations moving to cloud-based applications, India’s cloud market will grow to $9.5 billion by 2025. As such, the deal entails Oracle expanding its India West (Mumbai) region capacity with Nxtra by Airtel. The expanded Oracle Cloud Mumbai Region will be available in 2022. The new Mumbai Region will complement Oracle’s existing cloud regions in Hyderabad and Mumbai itself. The expanded region will enable more customers to leverage Oracle’s cloud infrastructure and Airtel Business network to expand further.

Incidentally, Nxtra by Airtel operates a data center network of 10 hyper data centers and 120 edge data centers; it also plans to invest Rs. 5000 Crore by 2025 to expand capacity by 3 times to over 400 MW.

The statement added that the companies will also serve enterprise customers via Airtel Business. The telco's enterprise arm already has over one million enterprise customers in India. Oracle Cloud solutions will now be available to these customers as part of Airtel Business’ integrated portfolio, the statement added.

A Partnership in Cloud

Oracle and Airtel will also set up a Cloud Centre of Excellence in Gurgaon. It will have a dedicated team of specialists from both organizations. These experts will help modernize Airtel’s internal workloads; it will also enable customers to adopt the cloud and fully benefit from it.

Airtel and Oracle will also work on joint IP solution development. These include multi-cloud solutions, B2B customer experience solutions, unified communications solutions, among others.

Garrett Ilg, President, Oracle Japan, and Asia Pacific, said, "our partnership with Airtel is a milestone and together we can truly help Indian businesses fast-track growth and help boost India’s economy".

Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel said, "we are delighted to strengthen our close working relationship with Oracle even further. Airtel’s world-class data center network will support Oracle’s cloud growth in India as they expand their cloud region in the country. Both companies will also partner to co-innovate cloud solutions for India’s digital economy and take these to the market by leveraging Airtel’s leadership in the enterprise segment".