Bharti Airtel and IBM have entered into a partnership to strengthen the recently launched Airtel Cloud, combining IBM’s AI and hybrid cloud technologies with Airtel’s data centre infrastructure. The collaboration is aimed at enabling enterprises, especially in regulated sectors such as banking, healthcare and government, to scale AI workloads more efficiently across hybrid environments.
Under the partnership, Airtel Cloud customers will be able to deploy IBM Power systems as-a-service, including the new AI-ready servers for mission-critical applications. The platform will also support key enterprise workloads such as IBM Power AIX, IBM i, Linux and SAP Cloud ERP.
Gopal Vittal, vice chairman and managing director of Bharti Airtel, said the partnership enhances Airtel Cloud’s capability to