Bharti Airtel partners with IBM to strengthen Airtel Cloud and accelerate AI-ready infrastructure in India

Bharti Airtel, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, has announced a strategic partnership with IBM to bolster its recently launched Airtel Cloud. The collaboration aims to combine Airtel’s secure, high-availability cloud infrastructure with IBM’s leadership in hybrid cloud and AI-ready systems — empowering Indian enterprises, especially those in regulated sectors, to scale AI workloads seamlessly across environments.

Under the partnership, Airtel Cloud customers will gain access to IBM Power Systems-as-a-Service, including the latest-generation IBM Power11 autonomous, AI-ready servers. These systems are designed to handle mission-critical workloads across industries such as banking, healthcare, and government, supporting IBM Power AIX, IBM i, Linux, and SAP Cloud ERP.

Additionally, the partnership will enable SAP customers on IBM Power to accelerate their ERP transformation journeys by adopting SAP Cloud ERP on IBM Power Virtual Server, simplifying modernization for enterprises that rely ...