Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat) Group and Google Cloud announced an expanded cooperation to deliver next-generation sovereign cloud and edge cloud services in Indonesia that fulfil the strictest data residency, security, and privacy requirements.
The duo announced in a statement that Indosat Group will offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to Indonesian organisations to address their particular needs for AI and data-intensive workloads at their preferred location.
They said this will enable Indonesian public sector and other critical industries like defence, healthcare and life sciences, financial services, energy and utilities, and manufacturing to accelerate digital transformation with best-in-class AI and analytics while maintaining data security.
GDC is a fully managed solution with a rich set of software services, extensible hardware form factors, and the option to run air-gapped (i.e., disconnected) from the public internet for sensitive workloads or connected between edge locations and the Google Cloud region in Indonesia.
Through its data centres, Indosat Group wants to host GDC on-premises. This keeps data under customer control and in Indonesia, following all legal and sovereignty frameworks, including the Personal Data Protection Law and Government Regulation.
“Indonesia is paving the way towards its golden era in 2045. Indosat Group is committed to contributing through technological advancements in pursuit of this vision, The partnership with Google Cloud is driven by empowering Indonesia, aiming to deliver the country’s first sovereign cloud and edge cloud solutions,” said Vikram Sinha, President Director and Chief Executive Officer, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Group.</strong
These solutions will give organisations cutting-edge infrastructure, operational capabilities, and developer tools to expedite digitalisation at scale, he says.
GDC allows organisations to quickly develop and deploy advanced machine learning (ML) and generative AI search applications for easily retrieving and analysing data at their chosen location using Vertex AI’s core features (e.g., Workbench, Pipelines, Predictions).
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Speech-to-text, translation, and OCR pre-trained ML models for more than 100 languages, including Bahasa Indonesia, are also available.
The wider spectrum of Google Cloud hardware and software resources needed to seamlessly deploy AI applications in an air-gapped or edge environment is also available.
These include Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, AlloyDB Omni, and Dataproc for open-source data analytics.
“Indonesia’s public sector and regulated industries require solutions that meet strict data sovereignty and regulatory requirements, Our partnership with Indosat Group will introduce next-generation, local sovereign cloud and edge cloud solutions to empower public sector and regulated organizations to accelerate digital transformation on their own terms,” said Thomas Kurian, Chief Executive Officer, Google Cloud.“Our leading AI services and secure-by-design distributed cloud infrastructure, combined with Indosat’s technology expertise, will help businesses better analyze data, uncover insights, boost productivity, and run modern AI applications,” he added.
In 2022, Ooredoo and Hutchison Asia Telecom Group formed a joint venture to own Indosat, an Indonesian telecom carrier. Cellular, ICT, data centre, FTTH, electronic payment, financial, and other digital services are offered by the company.
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About Indosat
Indosat Tbk (“Indosat Ooredoo”) and PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia merged to create a world-class digital telecoms and internet company for Indonesia that can better compete and create value for all stakeholders, including employees, customers, and shareholders. Indonesia’s second-largest mobile telecoms company is Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison.
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