Bharti Airtel Partners IBM to Strengthen AI-Ready Cloud Capabilities

22 Oct 2025 CW Team

Bharti Airtel has entered a strategic partnership with IBM to enhance its recently launched Airtel Cloud platform. The collaboration combines Airtel’s secure, compliant cloud infrastructure with IBM’s advanced hybrid cloud and AI technologies to serve enterprise clients in regulated industries.

The partnership will enable Airtel Cloud users to deploy IBM Power systems portfolio as-a-Service, including the latest Power11 AI-ready servers for mission-critical applications across banking, healthcare, and government sectors. The Power11 hybrid platform will support IBM Power AIX, IBM i, Linux, and SAP Cloud ERP workloads, assisting clients in their digital transformation journeys.

Gopal Vittal, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel, said the partnership adds “substantial capabilities” to Airtel Cloud and will extend its availability zones in India from four to ten, with new Multizone Regions planned in Mumbai and Chennai.

IBM’s SVP and Chief Commercial Officer, Rob Thomas, noted that the collaboration will help enterprises “balance modernisation with regulatory and AI requirements,” enabling true transformation through IBM’s watsonx and Red Hat OpenShift AI stack.

The initiative is expected to bolster Airtel Cloud’s AI readiness, resilience, and compliance while driving digital innovation and productivity across India’s enterprise ecosystem.

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