Vodafone Idea partners Red Hat, TCS in the fight against Jio, Airtel

Vodafone Idea seems to be going on a technology purchase spree, signing two significant deals over the past few days in a bid to better its consumer experience.

The operator, which is fighting Reliance Jio and Airtel in a highly competitive telecom market, will use a range of solutions from Red Hat, Inc., to transform its distributed network data centres to open standards. Vodafone Idea has also announced an agreement with Indian software services major TCS, to extend their decade-long strategic partnership for a further five years.

Through the deal with Red Hat, Vodafone Idea will be rapidly transforming its 100+ data centres across a “Universal Cloud”, where a shared software platform is capable of running multiple workloads e.g. Network, IT and third party applications across its distributed cloud locations.