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.
India’s Bharti Airtel to expand its base in SAARC countries
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Leading Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel has announced its prospects of expanding its base in various SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries with Bangladesh being the first step towards this direction.
The SAARC includes eight countries — India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. According to Akhil Gupta, the deputy group chief executive officer of the Bharti Enterprises, the company is very much interested in Bangladesh and other SAARC countries and on the auction of 3G spectrum, he hoped that it takes place on the scheduled time of January 14, 2010.
With over 110 million subscribers of the total 520 million and a market share of around 20 percent, Airtel continues to be the market leader.
QUALCOMM Announces Senior Management Appointments and Promotions
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM – News), a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, today announced the promotions of Kanwalinder Singh and Dr. Sung W. (S.W.) Kim to the positions of senior vice president of QUALCOMM, William Bold to the position of senior vice president of government affairs, Jeff Belk to the post of QUALCOMM senior vice president for strategy and market development, and Bill Davidson to QUALCOMM vice president of global marketing and investor relations. Singh and Kim continue as presidents of QUALCOMM India Ltd. and QUALCOMM Korea Ltd., respectively.
As president of QUALCOMM India, Singh continues to lead QUALCOMM’s significant ongoing business initiatives in India and the SAARC countries, including the Company’s support for these markets’ transition from 2G wireless to 3G CDMA-based services. Similarly, Dr. Kim continues, as president of QUALCOMM Korea, to oversee business development and strategic initiatives for the Korean market to further accelerate advanced 3G CDMA wireless services and applications for Korea and the global market. As senior vice president of government affairs, Bold will continue to manage the Company’s public policy agenda and its relationships with government entities and related organizations at the international, federal, state and local levels in order to support the acceleration of 3G wireless telecommunications services around the globe.
Belk, who previously managed QUALCOMM’s global marketing efforts, will, in his new role, be responsible for the formulation of a set of company- and industry-wide programs and initiatives designed to enhance QUALCOMM’s partnerships in the wireless industry and beyond, and to help drive the adoption of the Company’s products and technical innovations. Davidson will continue in his investor relations responsibilities and will now also be responsible for leadership of QUALCOMM’s marketing and public relations efforts.
“I want to congratulate Kanwalinder, S.W., Bill Bold, Jeff and Bill Davidson on these well-deserved promotions and appointments,” said Steve Altman, QUALCOMM president. “These executives are vital members of the management team, working to drive the growth of next-generation wireless globally; these changes demonstrate and further solidify the strength of our Company’s leadership team.”
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