Partnership15 Oct 2025, 11:06 am
Bharti Airtel partners with IBM to augment Airtel Cloud for AI workloads
AI Summary
Bharti Airtel, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, has entered into a strategic partnership with IBM to augment its Airtel Cloud. The partnership aims to enable enterprises in regulated industries to scale AI workloads more efficiently, delivering interoperability across infrastructure including on-premise, in the cloud, across multiple clouds and at the edge. Airtel Cloud customers will be able to deploy IBM Power systems portfolio as-a-Service, including the latest-generation IBM Power1 autonomous, AI-ready servers for mission-critical applications in regulated industries like banking, healthcare, government and others.
Key Highlights
- Bharti Airtel has partnered with IBM to strengthen its Airtel Cloud platform with IBM's advanced infrastructure and software technologies.
- The partnership aims to enable enterprises in regulated industries to scale AI workloads more efficiently.
- Airtel Cloud customers will be able to deploy IBM Power systems portfolio as-a-Service.
- The partnership will help enable SAP customers on IBM Power with their enterprise resource planning transformation to SAP Cloud ERP on IBM Power Virtual Server.
- The partnership will establish two new Multizone Regions (MZRs) in Mumbai and Chennai, helping Indian enterprises strengthen their resilience, address data residency requirements and keep mission-critical workloads and applications up and running at all times.