Airtel, Vultr partner to offer cloud-based solutions to Indian enterprises

Bharti Airtel (Airtel) is joining forces with cloud computing company Vultr with the objective to provide businesses in India with cloud-based solutions.

The Indian telecommunications solutions provider will be offering Vultr’s range of cloud services for its enterprise customers, particularly those operating in the digital space, and enable them to gain international reach, as well as cost-performance benefits to develop and run complex cloud-based workloads.

The cloud-based services will run at Airtel’s data centers in Bengaluru, Delhi-NCR, and Mumbai which will allow businesses to expand their digital operations across the globe.

JJ Kardwell — CEO of Constant, which is the parent company of Vultr, said: “Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for businesses and developers around the world.

“With 30 cloud data center locations globally, including three locations in India in Airtel data centers, Vultr provides unrivaled price-to-performance and global reach. Combined with Airtel’s unmatched connectivity and managed services capabilities, Vultr is an ideal platform for accelerating business transformation and digital success.”

Airtel, Vultr partner to offer cloud-based solutions to Indian enterprises. Photo courtesy of Bhartiairtel/Wikimedia Commons.

Businesses, irrespective of their size, and the industries they belong to, will be now able to benefit from modern cloud technologies to expedite digital innovation, improve the performance of global cloud services, and increase the return on global cloud spending, said Airtel.

The Indian telecom major further stated that customers can also benefit from simple and transparent pricing that will be protected from billing shocks.

Airtel will provide all the services of Vultr as part of its enterprise-focused solutions. These include Cloud Compute and Optimized Cloud Compute in addition to Cloud GPU as well as fractionalized GPU services for high-end workloads that are tied to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, analytics, high performance computing (HPC), gaming, and visual computing usage cases.

Ganesh Lakshminarayan — Airtel Business Enterprise CEO said: “Our partnership with Vultr comes at a very exciting time as the country continues to aggressively embrace 5G technology and increasingly adopt digital solutions as a way of doing business. This partnership will help us to deliver complex cloud solutions at competitive costs which when combined with our legacy network strength and connectivity, offers an attractive proposition to our enterprise customers.”