Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications (RCom) launched a cloud services delivery network in five cities of the country.
RCom has deployed Cloud Xchange (Cloud X) nodes in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad and plans to launch 120 such nodes across the globe by end of 2015.
Cloud X offers on-demand low-cost cloud services. Users can deploy cloud servers and applications and manage lifecycle of these resources online, the company said.
“Cloud X is changing the paradigm of cloud computing. The network must now undergo a profound transformation, from a static entity to a dynamic, intelligent, application-aware fabric that can support multiple traffic requirements, diverse geographies and flexible pricing models,” RCom (Enterprise) and Global Cloud Xchange CEO Bill Barney told reporters in during the launch of the services in New Delhi.
The company claimed, Cloud X is designed to deliver not only infrastructure provisioning but deployment of complex multi-tiered enterprise applications directly on to enterprise networks in minutes.
The company also claimed that the Cloud Xchange nodes could help government departments access 240 times the amount of compute power currently available in government data centers, and over six times the high-speed storage currently available in India.
Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani had asserted during the Digital India launch on Jul 1 that the company would achieve full deployment of its next-generation content and cloud delivery network by the end of this year.