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Black Box-Wind River deal to drive edge, cloud growth with ₹1,350 cr boost

Black Box has partnered with Wind River to deliver AI-driven edge and cloud solutions, targeting ₹1,350 crore revenue in five years across India, Middle East and global markets

Neysa joins IndiaAI Mission, eyes global growth and fresh fundraise

AI cloud startup Neysa has been empanelled under the IndiaAI Mission and plans Series B funding to expand infrastructure while targeting growth in India and overseas markets

RIL, Bharti Airtel set to dominate India's $8bn data centre boom: Jefferies

India's data centre capacity is expected to quintuple to 8GW over the next 5 years, driven by rising internet traffic, growing adoption of AI & stricter regulatory mandates around data localisation.

India's reliance on US software, cloud services poses economic risks: GTRI

India's reliance on US software, cloud services, and social media platforms poses a major economic and security vulnerability in times of geopolitical tensions, think tank GTRI said on Sunday. Washington is in a position to cut off services or access to data, disrupting banking, governance, and defence systems, while controlling public discourse through foreign platforms, it said. "India's economy and security are deeply reliant on US software, cloud, and social media platforms, creating a major vulnerability in times of geopolitical tension," the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) said. To address this, the government should launch a "Digital Swaraj Mission", with sovereign cloud, indigenous OS (operating system), homegrown cybersecurity, and data-driven AI leadership at its core," GTRI founder Ajay Srivastava said. He added that Europe is already building sovereign cloud and enforcing the Digital Markets Act. China, too, has replaced foreign code in government, defence, and

Capgemini to acquire Cloud4C, boost cloud services and SAP expertise

Capgemini will acquire Singapore-based Cloud4C to expand cloud managed services and strengthen SAP capabilities, with the deal closing after regulatory approvals

New Cloud lobby seeks 'national asset' status for India's strategic data

B-DIA is further lobbying for mandatory government-backed data backups, physical audits, and source code access from all foreign vendors operating in sovereign sectors

Nvidia cloud gaming to shift on Blackwell-based GPUs: Here's what changes

Nvidia is upgrading GeForce Now with Blackwell-based RTX 5080 GPUs, DLSS 4, 5K support, and an expanded game library of over 4,500 titles from September

Revenue milestone: Airtel is leading the way with record-high Arpu

As Arpu is a key yardstick of a telecom company's financial health, telcos must work on effective monetisation strategies

Amazon Web Services bets big on India's talent in the global AI race

Amazon Web Services is investing $12.7 billion in India, banking on its developer base and infrastructure to shape the future of artificial general intelligence

Bharti Airtel launches sovereign cloud platform to power Indian telcos

The telecom major will now compete with US players like Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google

WeTransfer denies using user files for AI training after backlash: Details

WeTransfer updates its terms of service to clarify it doesn't use uploaded files for AI model training, following user concerns

AI hyped but better grounded than crypto, says Red Hat CTO Chris Wright

Chris Wright compares AI trajectory to early days of cloud tech; Red Hat to focus on enabling flexible infrastructure for AI workloads across platforms

Jio Platforms finds the right signal with 'non-connectivity' ventures

At an annualised level, revenues from non-connectivity services are expected to reach about ₹16,000 crore

Airtel, Google team up to offer cloud storage to postpaid, Wi-Fi users

Bharti Airtel and Google on Tuesday announced a partnership to offer Google One cloud storage subscription service for the telco's customers, to address the limitations of device storage. All postpaid and Wi-Fi customers will get access to six months of 100 GB of Google One cloud storage at no extra cost. After six months, a fee of Rs 125 per month will be added to the customer's monthly bill. If a customer chooses not to continue the subscription, they can cease to be a Google One member, according to a release. The partnership seeks to address the issue of growing data storage constraints faced by users by ensuring that customers have adequate space to store photos, videos, documents and other digital content without the need to frequently delete files or resort to expensive physical storage expansions, according to the release. As an introductory offer, the 100 GB cloud storage will be available at no additional cost for six months from the date of activation, enabling customers

Microsoft forecasts strong growth for Azure cloud business, shares surge 8%

Microsoft said revenue at its Azure cloud division rose 33 per cent in the third quarter ended March 31, exceeding estimates of 29.7 per cent

Mastek surges 15% on heavy volumes; Rebounds 21% from Monday's low

A combined 3.46 million equity shares representing 11 per cent of total equity of Mastek have changed hands on the NSE and BSE till 02:49 PM

It's a quantum leap in computing with India joining the global race

The world's biggest technology companies are building machines with vast processing power. India too is in the race

Angel One says it is investigating security breach, assessing impact

Angel One said it was notified of the breach by its dark-web monitoring partner and that it immediately changed all credentials of its AWS cloud

Amazon's cloud business faces test after Microsoft, Google struggles

Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud services provider, is expected to post its strongest revenue increase in eight quarters at 19.3 per cent, according to data compiled by LSEG

Ola Krutrim, AceCloud to host DeepSeek's AI models on Indian servers

Indian cloud service providers Ola Krutrim and AceCloud have started offering services of Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek in the country. AceCloud was the first to announce hosting of DeepSeek. AceCloud said that it will offer DeepSeek AI models to businesses with claims that the data residency will remain in India. Krutrim claimed to be the first Indian AI company to deploy DeepSeek's AI models on domestic servers, eliminating data privacy and security concerns, at lowest ever prices. Krutrim said that it is hosting DeepSeek's AI models on Krutrim cloud. "With this, Krutrim becomes the first Indian AI company to deploy DeepSeek's AI models on domestic servers, eliminating data privacy and security concerns, at lowest ever prices," the company said in a statement. Kriutrim said that it will at present host five state-of-the-art DeepSeek AI models ranging from 8 billion to 70 billion parameters, at introductory prices ranging from Rs 10 to Rs 60 per million token