Oracle partners Airtel to boost cloud business in India

Mumbai: Oracle Corp. is partnering with Bharti Airtel NSE -0.20 %’s data centre unit in an expansion push that will widen the US company’s customer access in one of its fastest-growing markets.

The partnership with Airtel Nxtra will help Oracle, which runs a cloud region in Mumbai and another in Hyderabad, expand the capacity of its India West region, said Garrett Ilg, president of Oracle Japan and Asia Pacific. “When we bring a company like Airtel into the conversation they have these relationships with customers…and that will help us get to that customer base way faster, with way more trust and most importantly with way less risk.”