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Economic Times
05-08-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Indian cloud companies to storm local skies with low-cost advantage
Synopsis Indian companies are competing in the cloud market. They offer local data storage and infrastructure. These firms aim to undercut global giants on cost. Airtel, Jio, Tata Communications, and Yotta are key players. They target the public sector and regulated industries. Experts note challenges in technology and migration. Hyperscalers like Microsoft and Amazon are also expanding in India. Agencies Indian corporates are building muscle to challenge bigger global rivals in the fast-growing cloud market, with offerings that store data applications and related infrastructure within the country, referred to as sovereign cloud. These homegrown firms are underlining lower costs as their biggest advantage against the foreign competitors. Bharti Airtel's Xtelify, Reliance's JioCloud for SMEs, Tata Communications' Vayu, and Yotta's Shakti are tailored for local enterprises, especially in public sector and other regulated industries. And they are aiming to take on hyperscalers Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform, positioning themselves as affordable and secure alternatives with cost savings of 30%-50% over the global giants. Hyperscalers are large cloud providers offering massive computing resources and infrastructure. However, factors such as limited technology depth, lack of ecosystem maturity, and high migration costs from the global cloud providers are limiting the ambitious growth plans of the Indian companies, say experts. They added that interoperability between cloud providers is almost non-existent, making migration costly and technically complex."The emergence of indigenous cloud platforms represents a market response to India's sovereign cloud policy framework, creating domestic alternatives for regulated sectors," said Jitesh Karlekar, director-research at real estate research and advisory firm JLL. "However, these nascent providers will need to rapidly build technical sophistication, security credentials, and operational scale to effectively compete with established global platforms." According to an IDC study, 15-20% of Indian companies are adopters of some sovereign cloud solution for ensuring compliance and security of their core applications and data. "Sovereign cloud is still in the early stages with little adoption in India," said Rajiv Ranjan, associate director, cloud and AI at research firm IDC India. "A key reason for not migrating to sovereign cloud could be higher costs and the risks associated with migrating applications which might be time consuming and cause business disruptions." He added that enterprises in the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) space need to be also fully confident with adequate security and compliance norms being met with the domestic offerings. Meanwhile, hyperscalers have rapidly grown their footprint in India through pacts with mobile phone operators. In 2019, Microsoft signed a 10-year deal with telecom market leader Reliance Jio for co-development of affordable cloud-based solutions, particularly targeted towards SMEs and startups. For its free consumer cloud storage, Jio has netted over 35 million active users. A year later, second-ranked telco Bharti Airtel signed a deal with AWS to develop differentiated Airtel Cloud products. It also tied up with Google Cloud the same year to offer G-Suite services such as Gmail, and Google Docs to to a study by policy body Centre for Internet and Digital Economy, India's $8.3 billion cloud market revenue is dominated by international vendors, with Microsoft (27%) and AWS (15%) together having a 42% share, with all other competitors, including Salesforce and SAP, having shares of less than 5% each. In the pure infrastructure space, Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud have a combined 87% market share. Bharti Airtel on Monday launched its sovereign cloud, with its vice chairman, Gopal Vittal, stressing that the telco's offering will lead to cost savings of 30-40% over rivals due to its mix of network and cloud the Centre for Internet and Digital Economy study on the competitive landscape in the Indian cloud market showed new entrants are struggling to match the free cloud credits and startup support offered by global global companies provide large sums in cloud credits and access to accelerator programs, giving them a strong edge in customer acquisition, said industry experts. In contrast, local firms often restrict credits to a small circle of existing clients and face difficulty competing for cloud-native startups. However, Indian providers are attracting small and mid-sized businesses by offering 30-70% cost savings and greater billing transparency, areas where hyperscalers fall short due to complex pricing and poor cost visibility, the study showed. The global rivals with technical strength though are better equipped to forecast and manage cloud costs, offering better expense visibility to their clients, compared with their smaller rivals.
United News of India
30-07-2025
- Business
- United News of India
CloudPe Expands Footprint with New Tier 4 Data Center Deployment in Navi Mumbai
Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 28: CloudPe is happy to announce the launch of its new region IN-WEST2 hosted at a Tier 4 certified data center in Navi Mumbai. This is a big step up in terms of reliability, performance and scalability for customers in India and beyond. The new deployment is live at Yotta's Tier 4 Certified Data Center, the highest level of fault tolerance and uptime guarantee. Designed for mission critical workloads, IN-WEST2 is for organizations looking for next gen infrastructure with enterprise grade reliability. Tier 4 Certified Infrastructure: Hosted at Yotta DC, maximum uptime and fault tolerance. Lightning Fast Connectivity: 20 Gbps uplinks for super fast data transfer and low latency. Next Gen Storage: All NVMe storage fabric with ultra low latency, 200 Gbps interconnect and triple data replication for high availability. High Performance Compute: Latest gen AMD EPYC processors on HPE and Dell servers for performance for modern applications. Multi Homed Redundancy: Network resilience powered by TATA, Jio and Airtel for no downtime. In addition to the new infrastructure, CloudPe customers still get all the standard platform benefits including built-in security, transparent pricing, software defined storage, Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Virtual Private Cloud support and automated infrastructure management for scale. 'We're excited about what IN-WEST2 means for our customers. It brings them the speed, availability, and flexibility they've been asking for, and it reflects our ongoing promise to build cloud services that work as hard as they do' said CEO Ishan Talathi. 'This region is optimized for performance-critical workloads and businesses looking to future-proof their infrastructure.' About CloudPe: CloudPe, a joint venture between Leapswitch Networks and Strad Solutions, is a global cloud solutions provider powered by a resilient OpenStack infrastructure, serving businesses across more than 110 countries. It offers a wide range of core services, Virtual Machines, managed Kubernetes clusters, S3-compatible object storage, block volumes, GPUs, load balancers, firewalls, VPN, and VPC networking, backed by transparent, cost-efficient pricing and no hidden fees. With enterprise-grade reliability features such as 99.95% VM uptime SLA, triple-replicated NVMe block storage, high request-rate object storage, and advanced security tools including firewalls, encryption, and RBAC, the platform enables scalable and secure deployments for developers, SMBs, startups, and large enterprises alike. CloudPe is positioned as a next-gen, customer-centric partner, delivering hyperscale capabilities, cost savings up to 30%, and seamless cloud management through APIs, CLI, and Terraform support.
Mint
01-07-2025
- Business
- Mint
Govt spending on AI makes India lucrative for cloud providers
New Delhi: India's $1.2 billion AI Mission is turning into a big opportunity for homegrown cloud service providers, due to an increase in graphic processing unit (GPU) demand and government-backed infrastructure procurement. Local firms like Reliance Jio Platforms,Tata Communications Ltd and Hiranandani Group's Yotta Data Services are witnessing significant growth, buoyed by the Union government's push to build a massive compute backbone for artificial intelligence (AI). This is because these cloud service providers account for the bulk of the 34,333 GPUs procured by New Delhi, which in turn has given access to startups such as Sarvam, and Soket AI Labs. GPUs are the fastest and most efficient way for companies to run calculations, allowing cutting-edge AI firms to analyse enormous amounts of data and train algorithms that power AI applications. Yotta, for instance, is currently supplying nearly 17,000 of 34,333 GPUs to New Delhi. 'The India AI Mission is a key initiative that is helping us ramp up revenue as we look for funding avenues to complete our GPU orders and enable their access through our cloud platforms. Overall, we expect nearly 70% of our revenue to come from the Indian government's procurement of GPUs from us," said Sunil Gupta, chief executive of Yotta. On 30 January, the ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) announced the first tranche of GPU procurement, enlisting Jio Platforms, Tata Communications and Yotta Data Services, among others, in a total of 10 vendors supplying 18,693 GPUs to the AI Mission. On 30 May, Meity's second tranche of GPU procurement added 15,640 more GPUs to what Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union minister for IT, said is 'a one-of-a-kind central compute repository." Indian providers score Yotta projected its fiscal year 2025 (FY25) revenue to be at $143.3 million,Mint reported on 10 February. Speaking withMint, Gupta said the company expects a major fillip driven by government-backed uptake of AI cloud infrastructure. 'Despite us offering subsidized GPU pricing, India's uptake of GPUs has been limited. In the long run, we expect to see a 5x boost to operating revenue by FY28, and a large part of it will come through government spending in India," he said. Tata Communications, too, is seeing a similar boost to its India operations. Neelakantan Venkataraman, vice-president and global head, edge and cloud business, Tata Communications, said the government-driven push is 'definitely driving heavy demand, and we're adding more GPUs as we speak to support the mission and cash in on it." Even beyond the India AI Mission, there is increasing enterprise AI adoption even in India. 'Many pilots that began 12-18 months ago are moving into production stages, even if their scale hasn't fully taken off yet. As a result, in India, there is a significant latent demand for AI infrastructure to fulfil the demand from enterprise data pipelines and support the creation of foundational models that the government has extensively spoken about," Venkataraman sai Data sourced from the company said that in FY25, Tata Communications earned $2.7 billion in gross revenue—growing at around 10% year-on-year. Revenue from cloud services contributed nearly 8% to the company's annual revenue, but grew at a faster clip—at nearly 13% in FY25. Venkataraman also affirmed that Tata Communications already draws 42% of its overall revenue from India, and is expected to see a faster pace of growth in the coming fiscals—driven by the demand for AI infrastructure, especially from the government. Jio Platforms, which is also supplying 1,000 GPUs to the Union government, had yet to respond toMintuntil press time. Tendering process issues Industry analysts, too, believe that government spending on AI infrastructure marks a big boost for India's nascent AI industry. Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief executive at consultancy firm Greyhound Research, cited internal market research data to state that '68% of digital infrastructure executives in India now cite the India AI Mission as their first opportunity to win long-term, production-grade AI cloud deals with predictable utilization." This, though, is not without risk. Jayanth Kolla, co-founder and partner at fellow consultancy firm Convergence Catalyst, said a big risk to the ramp-up of government spending in AI 'is the red-taped, bureaucratic government procuring process, and the restriction that comes with tenders." 'The major vendors selected as infrastructure suppliers in the India AI Mission have large conglomerates backing them—which makes it easier for them to go through the tendering process. But, the very process of this does not take into account the idea of nifty innovation. While the rise in government spending is definitely great for India in the long run, an overhaul of the process is a necessity for India to reap the full benefits of the global AI rush," Kolla added. In the long run, though, there is strong scope for growth. Chirajeet Sengupta, managing partner at technology research firm Everest Group, said that despite the challenges, a worldwide push for sovereign AI initiatives will be the biggest boost for India's on-cloud AI infrastructure providers. 'The Pentagon signed a deal with OpenAI with a token initial amount of $2 million for a central AI infrastructure. While it is set to scale up to $200 million for now, in the long run, subject to successful execution, this deal can go up to $2 billion. For India and the US, China's leapfrog with DeepSeek has been a big push. Government spending is undoubtedly a big fillip as the future of public services and defence infrastructure, as well as cyber sovereignty, is critically dependent on AI. If the government speeds up, revenue fillip is definitely going to come through in the near term," Sengupta added.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Authenticom Doubles Down on Growth, Welcomes Dawn Romvari to Lead Demand Gen Strategy
LACROSSE, Wis., June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Authenticom is excited to announce the addition of Dawn Romvari as Director of Demand Generation, a strategic hire that signals the company's continued investment in growth, engagement, and industry leadership. Dawn brings over 15 years of experience driving high-impact marketing strategies across complex B2B industries. Most recently, she served as Chief Content Officer at Yotta, a startup in the digital infrastructure space, where she partnered directly with the founder to help shape the brand's voice and build the large-scale, C-level-focused event program that drew attention from across the industry. Prior to Yotta, she drove demand generation and content initiatives at Netrality Data Centers, executing cross-channel campaigns and developing messaging that positioned the brand as a thought leader in its space. "Dawn's arrival opens a bold new chapter for the Authenticom group of companies," said Drew Williams, Creative Director - International Operations at Authenticom. "We're raising the stakes in how we engage the automotive industry—bringing more intelligence, creativity, and firepower to how we market our solutions. With Dawn's leadership, we're doubling down on delivering top-tier data solutions that ensure customer data compliance and white-glove syndication." In her new role, Dawn will oversee the planning and execution of multi-channel demand generation programs, collaborating closely with sales, product, and leadership to align marketing efforts with Authenticom's business goals. "As we continue to be the business behind the automotive business, Dawn's arrival has been long awaited," said Jason Tryfon, President, Canada - International Operations & Growth at Authenticom. "She brings a powerful combination of strategic thinking and executional excellence that will elevate our presence and drive measurable impact for our partners and our platform." About Authenticom Authenticom is a privately held company launched in 2002. As a leader in data management services, Authenticom has expanded its family of products to support the changing environment surrounding data. Their mission is to connect the world to data through data visibility, transparency, and control. This allows organizations to leverage the power of data to drive their business operations. For more information, visit For media inquiries or more information about Authenticom Inc., please contact: Drew View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Authenticom, Inc. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
India.com
01-06-2025
- Business
- India.com
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella finally breaks silence on sacking 6000 employees, says they were not fired....
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella- File image Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on recent layoffs: In a massive statement after Microsoft laid off 6,000 jobs, CEO Satya Nadella has clarified that the recent layoffs were not linked to employee performance, but the actual reason behind the layoffs was organizational restructuring. Here are all the details you need to know about the recent statement of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. CEO Satya Nadella stated that the layoffs were done with a clear focus on accelerating the company's Artificial Intelligence (AI)-first strategy. The CEO emphasized that Microsoft's vision is now centered on AI transformation. Reports have it that Microsoft's plan includes reallocating resources and talent to areas aligned with emerging business priorities. Microsoft aims to boost AI innovation in India In another significant development for Microsoft, Microsoft and Yotta Data Services, India's leading sovereign cloud infrastructure and platform services provider recently partnered to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in India. The partnership enables Microsoft and Yotta to engage with IndiaAI Mission participants, government agencies, IITs, startups, enterprises, and software development companies to leapfrog AI innovation, a report by IANS news agency said. Microsoft said it would bring its AzureAI services to Shakti Cloud, Yotta's AI cloud platform, to offer cutting-edge AI capabilities to developers, startups, enterprises, and public sector organisations across India. 'Our partnership with Yotta to power Shakti Cloud will help unlock AI innovation at scale. Microsoft is honoured to play its part in helping the country realise its AI ambitions through innovation that reflect India's unique needs and priorities,' said Puneet Chandok, President, Microsoft India and South Asia. In January this year, Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella announced a collaboration with IndiaAI, a division of Digital India Corporation, to advance AI and emerging technologies in the country, and established AI Centre of Excellence and AI Productivity Labs to foster inclusive growth. (With inputs from agencies)
