Reliance Communications expands cloud platform in India

Reliance Communications, an Indian telecommunications service provider, along with its subsidiary Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) have announced a major expansion of its cloud platform inside India.

As of November 4, the company said 3,210 Indian enterprises, 14,505 global enterprises and 231 Fortune 500 companies in Mumbai were connected to the new RCOM/GCX network, which allows them to multiply their corporate compute power by nine to 15X, and their storage capabilities by over 100X. These users enjoy a expanded data centre footprint in India plus access to 2M+ enterprise applications.

"We believe the outsourcing and driving of clouds will nestle itself in India over the next decade in a similar way as software development, call centres and business process outsourcers (BPOs) did in the last decade,” said Bill Barney, CEO of Reliance Communications (Enterprise) and Global Cloud Xchange. “This will drive huge growth in the cloud and data centre space across India, so it is mission-critical that we further enhance the end points of our network with state-of-the-art capabilities to ensure we are prepared to meet explosive new demands ahead.”

Currently the largest owner of cloud computing facilities in India, with 11 data centres connected through the largest terrestrial fibre network in the country and the world’s largest subsea cable infrastructure, RCOM/GCX is taking another step forward in optimising its existing assets by expanding its data centre campuses in Mumbai and in Bangalore, doubling the space and delivering 3X the power. 

“These enhanced facilities will serve as major hubs for our revolutionary Cloud X ecosystem,” said Braham Singh, RCOM/GCX’s Senior Vice President of Product Management. “In parallel to the expansion of our data centre footprint, we have deployed Cloud X Fusion across India, delivering predictable performance, carrier-level security for our enterprise MPLS customers to connect to the public cloud directly from their private enterprise WAN.”

RCOM/GCX enterprise customers across India now have “on-net” access to major public cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Softlayer, Google, Rackspace, VMWare and more than 20 others worldwide, as well as software services like Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps for Work. Cloud X Fusion is part of RCOM/GCX’s Cloud X portfolio, a proprietary platform designed to combine the speed and power of fibreoptics with the agility, flexibility and cost-efficiencies of pay-as-you-go cloud computing. It is available globally.