The partnership will enable organisations to deploy and access Google Cloud services through Tata Communications’ IZO™ Managed Cloud, a single-pane-of-glass orchestration tool which integrates different enterprise IT environments into a single dashboard to offer a unified cloud experience.
The partnership will allow Tata to provide services across infrastructure modernisation, data centre transformation, application modernisation, smart analytics, multi-cloud deployments and more.
These will give its customer organisations "ease-of-use coupled with end-to-end services, including cloud architecture planning, workload migration and ongoing operational support".
“The current demands on enterprises to manage and optimise their cloud solutions has never been more important, especially in the wake of Covid-19 and our increasing reliance on cloud infrastructure,” said Rajesh Awasthi, global head of cloud and managed hosting services at Tata Communications.
According to an IDC survey, more than 60% of Indian organisations plan to leverage cloud platforms for digital innovation, as they re-strategise IT spending plans.
Awasthi continued: “As organisations migrate to Google Cloud, they need a partner that will support them across their entire IT ecosystem and deliver a unified cloud management platform that offers greater transparency, control and security of their data and applications.”
Tata Communications’ cloud capabilities are underpinned by 14 cloud nodes along with its tier-1 network, which carries around 30% of the world’s internet routes. Its services can manage Kubernetes on Google Cloud platform that can enable application modernisation seamlessly, which is an essential need as enterprises graduate in the hybrid multi-cloud environments.
“The true test of 2021 will be how organisations adopt a cloud first approach. Through our partnership with Tata Communications, we will be able to provide our customers with a unified, end-to-end experience that will remove the complexity in cloud management and help them transform at speed and scale”, said Amitabh Jacob, Head of Partners and Alliances at Google Cloud India
