After establishing its presence in the banking and the government institutions in India, Cloud infrastructure and business mobility major VMware is eying the vast telecommunications sector to further boost its growth, its CEO Pat Gelsinger has said.
“We have clearly been the leader in the banking sector and have had good success with the governmental institutions. And the one sector that we have started to have much more success is the telecommunication sector,” Gelsinger told IANS in an interview.
Palo Alto, California-headquartered VMware, which clocked over $7 billion in revenue in 2016, has now entered into a strategic partnership with Bharti Airtel, Gelsinger said, adding: “Bharti Airtel will be making extensive use of our products.”
In September, Vodafone entered into a software licensing agreement with VMware in order to access a range of the technology vendor’s products.
As part of that agreement, VMware will be one of the vendors to support the operator’s global roll out of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) to accelerate its delivery of future products and services in a rapid, cost-efficient manner.
Software-defined virtualised platforms and services are an important part of the plans for service providers as they evolve their mobile networks towards the introduction of 5G in around 2020.
“India is a great talent base for me. It’s also a great market. Everything is big here in India,” said Gelsinger.
“Moreover, most of the technology companies are here, offering us opportunity to partner with them to reach the world. So we have three reasons to be here — the talent, market opportunity and forging global partnerships,” the CEO of the Dell-owned firm added.
“The strategic partnership with Amazon has accelerated our strategic alignment with our customers the most,” Gelsinger added.
