Googles Inks Deal With Airtel to Offer G-Suite Services in India

Google has inked a deal with Airtel to grow its consumer cloud concern in India. The move, announced Monday, is expected to help the US tech behemothic better compete with other leading cloud services providers, including Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. The deal will allow Airtel to offer G-Suite services, including Gmail, Docs, Google Drive and Calendar, to pocket-size and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Republic of india as office of the Airtel integrated ICT portfolio.

According to an official statement released by Thomas Kurian, Chief Executive of Google Cloud, "The combination of M-Suite'due south collaboration and productivity tools with Airtel'southward digital business offerings will assistance accelerate digital innovations for thousands of Indian businesses". On its part, Airtel also expressed its satisfaction at the deal, with Gopal Vittal, the MD & CEO of Bharti Airtel India and Southward Asia, saying: "Nosotros are pleased to farther strengthen our deep human relationship with Google Cloud and build products and services aimed at transforming Indian businesses".

While the bargain is expected to help Google become a share of the pie in one of the fastest-growing deject-services market place in the world, it is too a big step for Airtel, which is looking to expand its ain cloud business past leveraging Google's platform. The carrier has been slowly ramping upwardly its cloud services in India with its Airtel Deject platform that the company claims has effectually two,500 big business and more than than 500,000 SMBs as customers.

The Google-Airtel partnership follows a similar annunciation by the country's largest telecom operator, Reliance Jio, which, last August, inked a 10-twelvemonth deal with Microsoft Azure to offering cloud-based solutions to enterprise customers. The gilded blitz for the Indian deject services market follows a recent Nasscom study that claimed the country'southward cloud marketplace is estimated to cantankerous the $seven-billion marking past 2022, while the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market is expected to be worth more than $3.five billion by that year.