Bharti Airtel enters into strategic relationship with VMware (India)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: One of the leading emerging markets telecom operators, Bharti Airtel, announced an extension of its Managed Services portfolio by entering into a strategic relationship with VMware. Bharti Airtel’s Managed Virtual Compute services will help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for customers looking to transition to next-generation data center architectures. The initiative is set to provide a fillip to the Hosted IT services market in India.

The aim of the collaboration is to target the enormous market potential for cloud-based managed compute services in India by offering external IT infrastructure for customers, allowing them to increase or reduce compute capacity based on ever changing business demands. The company also announced it is joining the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP).

Bharti Airtel’s Managed Virtual Compute services will ride on its existing network infrastructure across the country and be available to Enterprise customers on a ‘pay per use’ model. Services would include Web Services, File, Mail, Database, Transaction, Disaster Recovery, Co-location and other Managed Services.

According to Rajan Swaroop Executive Director – Enterprise Services, Bharti Airtel, Bharti Airtel recognizes the need of its customers in the virtualization space and is happy to be collaborating with VMware in offering cloud based services for our customers. And being a first-of-its kind initiative in India, it brings together strengths of Bharti Airtel’s managed services capabilities and highly reputed virtualization technologies from VMware.

T. Srinivasan, managing director, VMware India & SAARC on the other hand announced that the company is excited about this strategic relationship with Bharti Airtel as it further validates the value proposition for customers and partners to use cloud computing services based on the VMware platform.

For the end user, Managed Virtual Compute will act as a cost optimization tool. It would reduce the number of servers and related expense on space, power, operating system & management etc. Better management of IT capacity, optimize the resource allocation, will also be allowed by the services and it will also improve security and manageability of enterprise application and faster provision of new servers.