Airtel, HP join hands to provide cloud services to SMEs

Bharti Airtel in partnership with Hewlett Packard (HP) today announced the launch of its Cloud Enablement Platform (CLEP) based on the HP Aggregation Platform for Software-as-a-Service (AP4SaaS). Bharti Airtel will offer hosted SaaS and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) applications to the small and large enterprises on a pay-as-you-go model.

Initially, Airtel will offer solutions like ERP, accounting packages, storage and compute on the Airtel CLEP Platform. Going forward the company will introduce diverse SaaS applications on the same platform especially for SMB customers, thereby helping them to meet the ever evolving business demands.

Airtel cloud Services will enable businesses of all sizes to optimize their IT costs while providing security, scalability and flexibility.

Introducing Airtel CLEP, Sanjay Kapoor, CEO (India & South Asia) Bharti Airtel said, “Cloud computing market in India is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 40 percent by 2014. Bharti Airtel, with our end to end telecom solutions bundled with the latest technologies like 3G and 4G, is uniquely poised to lead this space by offering a wide range of cloud based services to our customers.“

"Our strengths as an integrated telecom provider combined with HP's technical expertise will help us unlock the potential of the rapidly growing cloud services market in the country thereby enabling our customers to increase their business agility and productivity."

“HP Aggregation Platform for SaaS eases the integration of SaaS and IaaS into the CSP environment, expediting the delivery to Airtel’s small and medium business customers,” said Neelam Dhawan, managing director, HP India.