Airtel, Jio in race to provide cloud services to govt

Airtel's Nxtra Data owns and operates eight large modern data centre

Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are set for another bout after the fight in the telecom space. This time, the telcos are pitching against each other to grab a larger pie of the country’s cloud services market and are in the running to become government-empanelled cloud service provider.
 
However, it’s not going to be easy. Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, BSNL and HP, among others, are also in the fray. The government would give empanelment to 15 firms for providing cloud services to Central, state, and local governments, and public sector bodies in India.
 
Of the 15, the ministry of