Bharti Airtel launches the cloud enablement platform based on the HP aggregation medium
Bharti Airtel has launched the cloud enablement platform (CLEP), which is based on the HP Aggregation Platform for Softwareas-a- Service (AP4SaaS). Bharti Airtel will offer hosted SaaS and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) applications to small and large enterprises on a pay-as-you-go model.
Initially, the operator will offer solutions including enterprise resource planning, 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.
Commenting on the launch, Sanjay Kapoor, CEO, India and 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 and applications to our customers.”
