Oracle and Bharti Airtel have expanded their relationship to offer cloud solutions
Oracle and Bharti Airtel have partnered to provide more than 1 million enterprise clients with a variety of cloud solutions, the companies announced on Wednesday.
India’s active Internet users are expected to increase to over 900 million by 2025, up from 622 million in 2020, thanks to low-cost smartphones and data plans. Bharti Airtel stated in a statement that with 5G services slated to launch in 2022, the Indian economy will see a boom in demand for digital services and applications.
In addition, to speed up their digital transformations, businesses are turning to cloud-based apps. As a result, the public cloud market in India is predicted to expand from $3.6 billion in 2020 to $9.5 billion by 2025.
Oracle will expand its India western (Mumbai) region capacity alongside Nxtra by Airtel, the telecom giant’s data centre subsidiary, to meet the rising demand for cloud services in India.
In 2022, the Oracle Cloud Mumbai area will be expanded.
Nxtra by Airtel runs India’s largest data centre network, with ten hyper data centres and 120 edge data centres, and aims to invest 5,000 crores (about $760 million) by 2025 to increase capacity threefold to over 400 MW.
The new Mumbai area will be added to Oracle’s current MeitY-empanelled cloud regions in Hyderabad and Mumbai, which already served hundreds of customers in the commercial and public sectors in India. More clients will be able to use Oracle’s next-generation cloud infrastructure and Airtel Business network to innovate and accelerate their business growth as a result of the extended territory.
“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is becoming increasingly popular. “Over the last year, we’ve seen triple-digit growth in the business, with more and more organisations in Asia, ranging from leading banks and telcos to governments and unicorns, turning to OCI to manage their mission-critical workloads,” said Garrett Ilg, President, Oracle Japan and the Asia Pacific.
Airtel Business and Oracle will jointly sell Oracle Cloud products to enterprise customers in the commercial and public sectors as part of the partnership.
