NEW DELHI and AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 10,
2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle and Bharti Airtel ("Airtel"),
India's premier communications
solutions provider, have extended their partnership to support the
growth of India's digital economy
by bringing a range of industry leading cloud solutions to more
than 1 million enterprise customers.
The number of active Internet users in India is projected to grow from 622 million in
2020 to over 900 million by 2025[1], driven by affordable
smartphones and data tariffs. With 5G services expected to begin in
2022, the Indian economy will see a further surge in demand for
digital services and applications. Additionally, organisations are
moving to cloud-based applications to accelerate their digital
transformation journeys. As a result, India's public cloud market is expected to
grow from USD 3.6 billion in 2020 to
USD 9.5 billion by 2025[2].
Oracle Cloud to expand in India with Nxtra by
Airtel
To support the increasing demand
for cloud services in India,
Oracle will expand its India West (Mumbai) region capacity with Nxtra by Airtel –
the data centre subsidiary of Airtel. The expanded Oracle Cloud
Mumbai Region will be available in 2022. Nxtra by Airtel operates
India's largest data centre
network of 10 hyper data centres and 120 edge data centres and
plans to invest Rs. 5000 cr (USD 760
million) by 2025 to expand capacity by 3X to over 400
MW.
The expanded Mumbai Region will complement Oracle's existing
MeitY-empanelled cloud regions[3] in Hyderabad and Mumbai, which already serve hundreds of
customers in the country, spanning the private and public sectors.
The expanded region will enable more customers to leverage
Oracle's next-generation cloud infrastructure and Airtel Business
network to innovate and accelerate their business growth.
Airtel Business to offer Oracle Cloud
As
part of the collaboration, Airtel Business and Oracle will also
jointly market Oracle Cloud solutions to enterprise customers in
the private and public sectors. Airtel Business serves over one
million enterprises in India,
including large corporations, start-ups, governments and SMEs.
Oracle Cloud solutions will now be available to these customers as
part of Airtel Business' integrated portfolio.
Co-innovation for the Indian
market
Oracle and Airtel will also set up a
Cloud Centre of Excellence in Gurgaon with a dedicated team of
specialists from both organisations. These experts will help
modernise Airtel's internal workloads as well as enable customers
to adopt cloud and fully benefit from it. Airtel and Oracle will
also work on joint IP solution development to support emerging
technology growth areas including multicloud solutions, B2B
customer experience solutions, and unified communications solutions
among others.
"The demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is on the
rise. We've witnessed triple-digit growth in the business last year
with more and more organizations of all sizes—ranging from top
banks and telcos to governments and unicorns—in Asia, turning to OCI to run their
mission-critical workloads. We want to help customers build true
business continuity and disaster protection, while helping them
address their in-country data residence requirements," said
Garrett Ilg, President, Oracle Japan
and Asia Pacific. "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 centre 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.
With its 5G ready network and large investments in digital
infrastructure including data centers, Airtel is well positioned to
tap the emerging growth opportunities in the enterprise segment as
businesses accelerate their digital transformation journeys."
About Airtel
Headquartered in India, Airtel is a global communications
solutions provider with over 480 Mn customers in
17 countries across South
Asia and Africa. The
company ranks amongst the top three mobile operators
globally and its networks cover over two billion
people. Airtel is India's
largest integrated communications solutions provider and the
second largest mobile operator in Africa. Airtel's retail portfolio includes
high speed 4G/4.5G mobile broadband, Airtel Xstream Fiber that
promises speeds up to 1 Gbps with convergence across linear and
on-demand entertainment, streaming services spanning music and
video, digital payments and financial services. For enterprise
customers, Airtel offers a gamut of solutions that includes secure
connectivity, cloud and data centre services, cyber security,
IoT, Ad Tech and cloud based communication. For more details
visit www.airtel.com
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of
applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit
us at www.oracle.com.
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trademarks of Oracle Corporation.
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