Bharti Airtel has announced a strategic partnership with IBM to enhance its recently launched Airtel Cloud, combining Airtel’s telco-grade reliability and security with IBM’s expertise in cloud, AI, and infrastructure technologies.
Through this collaboration, the two companies aim to help enterprises—especially those in regulated sectors like banking, healthcare, and government—scale their AI workloads more efficiently across hybrid environments, including on-premise, cloud, and edge infrastructure.
As part of the partnership, Airtel Cloud customers will gain access to IBM Power Systems-as-a-Service, featuring the new IBM Power11 AI-ready servers built for mission-critical applications. The platform will support enterprise workloads including IBM Power AIX, IBM i, Linux, and SAP Cloud ER