Airtel and Oracle strike a powerful collaboration to enhance the implementation of the Digital Economy in India. Much attention will be paid to emerging cloud technologies and IP development.

Oracle will be leveraging Airtel’s Nxtra to widen its cloud facilities within the country. Airtel Business, on the other hand, will be offering OCI- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to its business subscribers. The two-way partnership will prove advantageous to the country as this will pave way for tremendous digital growth and advancement of the economy. With this collaboration, Indian subscribers will be exposed to state-of-the-art facilities in cloud technology. Business enterprises will derive exponential benefits by implementing the latest solutions offered by this winning partnership.

Co-Innovation To Set Cloud Centre Of Excellence

The teamwork between Airtel and Oracle will result in the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for Cloud technology in Gurgaon.

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 centres, Airtel is well-positioned to tap the emerging growth opportunities in the enterprise segment as businesses accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

The Plans Unveiled

Nxtra -the data centre subsidiary of Airtel will be supporting Oracle in its expansion plans across India West (Mumbai) region. The expanded circle is expected to be made available by 2022. Currently, Nxtra operates 120 edge data centres and 10 hyper data centres with plans to invest USD 760 million (Rs. 5000 cr) by the year 2025.

The company intends to widen its capacity 3-fold to more than 400 MW by 2025. Airtel Business will offer Oracle Cloud Solutions to one million enterprise customers in both the private as well as the public sector.

Guidance from the Cloud Centre of Excellence will assist in modernising Airtel’s internal workload and also enable subscribers to utilise all cloud facilities to their fullest advantage. There are also plans for a combined IP solution development which includes:

• Multicloud Solutions,
• B2b Customer Experience Solutions
• Unified Communications Solutions

Unlimited Potential For Growth

With the merger between Oracle and Airtel, it is estimated that the public cloud market in India will receive a boost from USD 3.6 billion (2020) to USD 9.5 billion (2025). Also, with the advent of 5G services by 2022, The digital economy in India will experience a surge in cloud-based services and applications. The predicted number of Internet users in India is expected to reach 900 million by 2025 from 622 million in 2020.