Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) Group has teamed up with Google Cloud to introduce sovereign cloud and edge cloud services in Indonesia, tailored to meet the country's stringent data residency, security, and privacy regulations. Indosat and Google Cloud today announced an expanded partnership, under which Indosat Group plans to offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to organisations in Indonesia to meet the unique demands of organisations that want to run AI and data-intensive workloads at their location of choice.
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Targeting Key Sectors
According to the official release, the collaboration targets key sectors such as defence, healthcare, financial services, energy and utilities, and manufacturing, empowering them with AI and analytics tools while ensuring full control over sensitive data.
Flexible Solutions with GDC
GDC provides a fully managed solution with flexible software services, diverse hardware options, and the ability to operate disconnected from the public internet or connected across edge locations, the official release said. IOH plans to offer on-premises hosting via its data centers, adhering to Indonesia's legal requirements, including the Personal Data Protection Law.
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Vikram Sinha, 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."
Thomas Kurian, Chief Executive Officer of Google Cloud, added: "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. Our leading AI services and secure-by-design distributed cloud infrastructure, combined with Indosat's technology expertise, will help businesses better analyse data, uncover insights, boost productivity, and run modern AI applications."
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Google Cloud's Enterprise AI Platform
Reportedly, the partnership will also enable Indonesian organisations to leverage Google Cloud's enterprise AI platform, Vertex AI, along with other core Google Cloud services. These include pre-trained machine learning models for tasks such as speech recognition, translation, and optical character recognition (OCR), all available out-of-the-box and supporting more than 100 languages, including Bahasa Indonesia.
