Bharti Airtel today announces the extension of its Managed Services portfolio by entering into a strategic partnership with VMware. VMware, Inc. is a leading provider of virtualization software. The initiative is set to provide a fillip to the Hosted IT services market in India and this will help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for customers looking to transition to next-generation data center architectures in India. Bharti Airtel also announced it is joining the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP).
Rajan Swaroop executive director – enterprise services, Bharti Airtel said, “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. This being a first-of-its kind initiative in India, brings together strengths of Bharti Airtel’s managed services capabilities and highly reputed virtualization technologies from VMware. This initiative is reiteration of our commitment to constantly innovate and offer customized solutions through collaboration with industry leaders.”
T. Srinivasan, managing director, VMware India & SAARC said, “We’re 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. This collaboration of technology visionaries will help accelerate the proliferation of innovative cloud services and solutions in India.”
VMware vSphere is the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud, enabling the delivery of efficient, flexible and reliable IT as a service. Bharti Airtel Virtualization services will 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.
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