- Solutions may enable organisations to expand digitalisation ,
- Aims to support AI and data-intensive tasks at favored places
Indonesia’s next-generation royal fog and edge cloud services, which are compliant with Indonesia’s demanding data citizenship, security, and privacy requirements, have been expanded through an expanded collaboration between Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Group and Google Cloud.
In order to meet the needs of those who want to run AI and data-intensive workloads at their preferred location, Indosat Group intends to partner with Google Distributed Cloud ( GDC ) for organizations in Indonesia. This will enable organisations in the public market and other important industries, such as protection, medical and life sciences, financial services, energy and utilities, and manufacturing, to expand digital transformation with AI and analytics capabilities, while ensuring they have total control and protection of their sensitive data.
GDC is a fully managed solution with a rich set of software services, a range of extensible hardware form factors, and the choice of running air-gapped ( i. e., fully disconnected ) from the public internet for the most sensitive workloads, or connected between edge locations and the Google Cloud region located within Indonesia.
Indosat Group, through its data center hands, plans to offer hosting choices for GDC on-premises. This ensures that information remains under the patient’s control and within Indonesia’s edges, adhering to all legitimate and independence structures, including the Personal Data Protection Law and Government Regulation No. 71.
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Group President and CEO Vikram Sinha stated,” Indonesia is paving the way for its golden age in 2045. In order to realize this vision, Indosat Group is committed to using technological improvements to contribute. The partnership with Google Cloud is driven by empowering Indonesia, aiming to provide the country’s first royal cloud and top cloud options”.
He added that these solutions will equip organisations with the state-of-the-art infrastructure, operational features, and developer tools they need to accelerate digitalisation at scale.
Through GDC, organisations can access core features ( e. g., Workbench, Pipelines, Predictions ) of Vertex AI—Google Cloud’s enterprise AI platform—enabling them to quickly develop and deploy advanced machine learning and generative AI search applications for easily retrieving and analysing data at their chosen location. Pre-trained ML models for Speech-to-Text, translation, and optical character recognition ( OCR ) —with support for more than 100 languages, including Bahasa Indonesia—are likewise accessible out-of-the-box.
Organizations can also gain access to a wider range of Google Cloud hardware and software resources, which are essential for seamlessly deploying AI applications in artificial intelligence ( AI ) environments or on the edge. These include Google Kubernetes Engine, NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, the portable AlloyDB Omni database engine, and Dataproc for running open-source data analytics.
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said,” Indonesia’s public sector and regulated industries require solutions that meet strict data sovereignty and regulatory requirements. In order to empower the public sector and regulated organizations to accelerate digital transformation on their own terms, we are working with Indosat Group to introduce next-generation, local sovereign cloud and edge cloud solutions.
He added that the firm’s 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.