Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (“Indosat” or “IOH”) Group and Google Cloud announced an expanded partnership to deliver sovereign cloud and edge cloud services in Indonesia.
As Indonesia paves the way towards its golden era in 2045, Vikram Sinha, president director and chief executive officer of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Group, said: “The partnership with Google Cloud is driven by empowering Indonesia, aiming to deliver the country’s first sovereign cloud and edge cloud solutions. These solutions will equip organisations with the state-of-the-art infrastructure, operational features, and developer tools they need to accelerate digitalisation at scale.”
Digital transformation
Through the partnership, Indosat Group plans to offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to organisations in Indonesia that want to run AI and data-intensive workloads. The initiative aims to empower organisations to accelerate digital transformation with AI and analytics, while ensuring complete control and protection of their sensitive data.
Indosat Group’s data centre arms plan to offer hosting options for GDC on-premises to ensure /data remains under the customer's control and within Indonesia's borders to adhere to the Personal Data Protection Law and Government Regulation No. 71.
Data-intensive workloads and services
Through GDC, organisations can access core features of Google Cloud’s enterprise AI platform, Vertex AI, to enable quick development and deployment of advanced machine learning (ML) and generative AI search applications.
Organisations can also access Google Cloud hardware and software resources for deploying AI applications in an air-gapped environment or at the edge.
Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer at Google Cloud, said: “Our partnership with Indosat Group will introduce next-generation, local sovereign cloud and edge cloud solutions to empower public sector and regulated organisations to accelerate digital transformation on their own terms.”
