India’s second-largest telecom provider, Bharti Airtel, has teamed up with IBM to provide the American tech giant’s services via its newly introduced cloud platform, the companies announced on as the need for computing power increases.

Indian companies have been striving to increase access to cloud platforms due to the rising significance of artificial intelligence technology and certain local data storage regulations that have driven demand for cloud services in the nation.

With this collaboration, Airtel Cloud clients will have the capability to use IBM's solutions, including AI-capable servers for applications, in regulated sectors such as banking, healthcare, government, and more.

This follows just a day after Google announced it would allocate $15 billion over five years to establish an AI data center in Andhra Pradesh, a southern state in India. Airtel is collaborating with Google to co-create the data center in the port city of Visakhapatnam.

In August, Xtelify, the digital division of Bharti Airtel, launched its Airtel Cloud service.

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Gopal Vittal, vice chairman and managing director of Bharti Airtel, stated that IBM and Airtel will soon set up two new Multizone Regions, or MZRs, in Mumbai and Chennai.

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MZRs represent cloud infrastructure distributed across various physical sites in different zones to guarantee that data and operations stay secure and continuous if issues arise in any specific region.

This will assist Indian firms in meeting data residency needs and ensuring that essential workloads and applications remain operational consistently, the companies stated.

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IBM, known as International Business Machines Corporation, is a U.S.-based multinational tech firm offering hybrid cloud, AI, and consulting services and solutions. Based in Armonk, New York, it operates in more than 170 countries and leads in sectors such as software, hardware, and IT infrastructure. The company's origins trace back to 1911 when it was initially called the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company> before changing its name to IBM in 1924