Airtel offers Saas & Iaas to enterprises

Bharti Airtel aspires to get a significant pie of the Indian cloud computing market. The company has unveiled Cloud Enablement Platform (CLEP) based on the HP Aggregation Platform for Softwareas-a- Service (AP4SaaS) and will offer hosted SaaS (Software-as-a-service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) applications to the small and large enterprises on a pay-as-you-go model.

Initially, Airtel will offer solutions like ERP, accounting packages, storage and compute on the its CLEP Platform. Later, it will introduce diverse SaaS applications on the same platform especially for SMB customers, thereby helping them to meet the ever evolving business demands.

Sanjay Kapoor, CEO (India & 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 /applications to our customers."

HP Enterprise Services built a CLEP using the HP AP4SaaS. It is integrated into airtel's existing network system and lets the company to either host on operator premises or integrate it with third-party SaaS providers. It provides a flexible set of web service interfaces for enhancing the Cloud Service Provider's (CSP) customer portal and facilitates distribution, subscription, and consumption via a marketplace portal.

“Communications service providers need flexibility, innovation and speed to market to attract new customers and drive new revenue streams. HP Aggregation Platform for SaaS eases the integration of SaaS and IaaS into the CSP environment, expediting the delivery to Airtel's small and medium business customers,” said Neelam Dhawan, managing director, HP India.