Airtel partners Vultr to deliver cloud solutions to Indian enterprises

Telecom services provider Bharti Airtel on Wednesday partnered with US-based cloud computing and server hosting provider Vultr, in a bid to offer cloud solutions to Indian enterprises.  

Airtel will offer Vultr’s cloud solutions to its enterprise customers, especially those in the digital space, the telco said in a statement, adding that the cloud solutions will be hosted in Airtel’s data centres across Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi-NCR, enabling businesses to scale their digital operations globally.  

The partnership will offer Vultr’s Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, and Cloud Infrastructure services to India's digital ecosystem, the statement said.  

“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,” said Ganesh Lakshminarayan, CEO Enterprise, Airtel Business.  

Airtel, which offers secure connectivity, cloud and data centre services, internet of things (IoT) and Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) solutions to business users, will offer all of Vultr’s services as a part of its enterprise solutions for advanced workloads tied to AI, machine learning, HPC, analytics, visual computing and gaming use cases.  

“With 30 Cloud data centre locations globally, including three locations in India in Airtel data centres, Vultr provides price-to-performance and global reach. Vultr is an ideal platform for accelerating business transformation and digital success," said JJ Kardwell, CEO of Constant, the creator and parent company of Vultr, which is backed by names such as JP Morgan and Bank of America.  

Vultr has so far served over 1.5 million customers across 185 countries. In April 2022, the company opened a cloud data centre in Mumbai, which was Vultr’s 25th global data centre. The company said at that time, it is banking on India’s improved infrastructure, and the government’s efforts to promote Digital India and its overall India business.