Reliance Industries Limited chairman Mukesh Ambani said that Jio has entered into a partnership with internet major Google to use the latter’s Google Cloud to power Jio 5G solutions and internal needs of Reliance Retail, JioSaavn and other businesses.
Reliance Industries Limited chairman Mukesh Ambani said that Jio has entered into a partnership with internet major Google to use the latter’s Google Cloud to power Jio 5G solutions and internal needs of other businesses.
Under the long-term partnership, Google Cloud will provide a complete end-to-end cloud offering for fully automated lifecycle management of Jio’s 5G network and services.
Google Cloud combined with telco-specific capabilities will help Jio’s 5G service to meet the demands of customers, thereby strengthening Jio’s position as one of the leading network and largest service providers in the country, as per an official release.
Jio and Google Cloud will collaborate to bring a portfolio of 5G edge computing solutions to help industries address real business challenges. Jio will explore building new services across gaming, healthcare, education, and video entertainment sectors. These services will use Jio’s 5G network, software and Google Cloud’s innovations in AI/ML, data and analytics, and other cloud-native technologies—delivered by Jio and powered by Google Cloud.
“Cloud and Cloud solutions, is another area where we are collaborating with Google. Jio will use Google Cloud’s cutting-edge technologies to power JIO’s 5G Solutions and for powering the internal needs of key Reliance growth businesses like Reliance Retail, JioMart, JioSaavn and JioHealth,” Ambani said.
“It will help more than a billion Indians connect to a faster and better internet… support businesses in their digital transformation… and help Jio build new services in sectors like health, education and more, laying a foundation for the next phase of India’s digitization. As part of this collaboration, Reliance will also shift its core retail businesses to Google Cloud’s infrastructure,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the AGM.
Pichai said that Reliance will shift its core retail businesses to Google Cloud’s infrastructure and will be able take advantage of Google’s AI and machine learning, ecommerce, and demand forecasting offerings.
“Harnessing the reliability and performance of Google Cloud will enable these businesses to scale up as needed to respond to customer demand. Empowering businesses as they embark on their digital transformation is a key part of our mission in India, and I’m excited for the innovations this partnership will help unleash. We are proud to play a part in India’s next wave of technological innovation,” Pichai added.
In July 2020, Jio had entered into a commercial partnership with Google to develop entry-level or low-cost 4G and 5G smartphones for its subscribers in India.
During his speech, Ambani said that Jio has operationalized an initial 10 MW capacity of JIO-AZURE Cloud Data centres in two cities, Jamnagar and Nagpur. “We are currently onboarding the initial group of pilot customers and we plan to expand our data centre capacity and our offerings to a growing number of SMEs and start-ups over the coming quarters,” he added.
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