TCS Unveils SovereignSecure Cloud™ in Europe to Power Digital Autonomy and Compliance

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, has expanded its global cloud portfolio with the launch of SovereignSecure CloudTM in Europe. This bespoke offering, designed specifically for governments, public sector enterprises, and regulated industries, combines sovereign cloud architecture with AI capabilities to enable sovereignty across data, operations and digital infrastructure.

In the European Union (EU), the offerings will enable enterprises to achieve digital autonomy, strengthen regulatory compliance and enhanced security in an increasingly complex global environment without compromising on the speed, agility, and interoperability essential to modern businesses. The launch of TCS SovereignSecure CloudTM in the EU builds on its successful rollout in India in 2025, followed by expansions into Kenya, East Africa and the Philippines.

TCS SovereignSecure CloudTM for the EU has been designed to provide strategic autonomy through a multi-layered approach. It comprises a sovereign cloud layer delivered through hyperscalers, providing scale and the flexibility to operate securely within the EU regulatory framework. The national sovereign cloud layer enables country-specific localization while bringing operations under a unified control plane. And its enterprise cloud services layer leverages the EU-specific TCS Enterprise Cloud Framework, a unified orchestration and control layer that enables enterprises to dynamically apply the appropriate level of sovereignty across data, operations, and technology based on workload, risk, and sector.

Sapthagiri Chapalapalli, Head of Europe, TCS, said, “European organizations are looking to strike a balance between addressing supply chain and sovereignty risks while ensuring leverage of frontier technologies to be globally competitive. TCS SovereignSecure Cloud solutions mark an important milestone for TCS in Europe, as our customers can now benefit from a pragmatic approach to cloud that ensures resilience and sovereignty that is contextualized to the enterprise.”

TCS is also introducing the TCS Sovereignty Consulting and Delivery Framework in the EU to help organizations become a "minimum viable sovereign enterprise" by finding the right balance between control and flexibility. It recognizes that not all workloads need the same level of sovereign protection. Using a practical, risk-based approach, it categorises workloads by importance and applies the right level of sovereignty to each, focusing effort where they deliver the greatest impact and risk mitigation.

As enterprises and governments across Europe accelerate their digital transformation journeys, the need for secure, compliant and sovereign cloud architectures has never been more critical. With SovereignSecure CloudTM, TCS is bringing together the scale of hyperscalers, localized sovereign controls, and AI-led capabilities to help organizations achieve digital autonomy without compromising on agility, innovation or operational resilience.

This new TCS SovereignSecure CloudTM offering leverages TCS’ strength in the European region, enabling organizations to innovate and grow with more flexibility. Operating in Europe for over 45 years, TCS has a diverse workforce operating from 58 offices across the region. TCS drives digital transformation for some of Europe’s leading multinationals adapting to the changing digital landscape of today across industries such as banking and financial services, manufacturing, telecom, retail, travel, logistics, and more. TCS is committed to serving as a trusted IT service provider across its TCS European Delivery Network of 10 data centres and 21 delivery locations across Europe.

Larsen & Toubro Vyoma Partners Open Dhi to Strengthen India’s Sovereign Digital Ecosystem

Larsen & Toubro Vyoma (Vyoma), L&T’s sovereign AI cloud and digital infrastructure business, has partnered with Open Dhi Group to host and scale the latter’s enterprise and retail technology platforms on secure, India-based infrastructure.

As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, digital transformation and omni-channel commerce, demand for unified, sovereign and cost-efficient digital architecture is rising. The partnership combines Vyoma’s sovereign cloud with Open Dhi’s enterprise and marketplace platforms, enabling scalable digital ecosystems with assured data residency in India.

Open Dhi will deploy its platforms — DhiERP+ (AI-enabled open-source enterprise ERP), DhiADT+ (Workforce governance and global payroll platform) and Bhaiyaa (Hyperlocal omni- channel marketplace platform) — on Vyoma Cloud within its ‘Double Sandwich Technology’ architecture, integrating a marketplace layer, AI-led enterprise systems and sovereign cloud infrastructure.

This enables enterprises to improve revenue, optimise cost and strengthen governance, while retaining control over their data. The combined offering provides a unified digital foundation for enterprises to scale operations, improve transparency and manage end-to- end workflows.

Commenting on this, Seema Ambastha, Chief Executive - Larsen & Toubro Vyoma, said: “Sovereign and resilient cloud infrastructure will be critical as India advances towards an AI-driven economy. Vyoma provides secure, India-hosted infrastructure to support this transition. Our partnership with Open Dhi will enable enterprises to scale on trusted domestic platforms”.

Shrinivas Racha, Founder, Open Dhi Group, said: “This partnership ensures our platforms operate on secure sovereign infrastructure built for scale. Our integrated architecture enables enterprises to drive growth, reduce costs and retain control of their digital ecosystems”.

The collaboration supports India’s push to strengthen domestic digital infrastructure while enabling enterprises to scale in an AI-driven economy.

About Larsen & Toubro Vyoma

Larsen & Toubro Vyoma is L&T’s sovereign, secure and integrated AI cloud and hyperscale data centre business, engineered to deliver AI-ready, high-density compute for India and global enterprises. Built on L&T’s legacy of trust, precision and engineering excellence, Vyoma offers sovereign cloud platforms, GPU-as-a-Service, hyperscale colocation and mission-critical digital infrastructure that powers government, BFSI, healthcare, manufacturing and high-compute industries worldwide.

More here: https://larsentoubrovyoma.com

About Open Dhi Group

Open Dhi Group builds integrated enterprise and marketplace platforms designed to help businesses scale digitally, while maintaining operational control and governance. Its platforms — DhiERP+, DhiADT+ and Bhaiyaa — combine AI-driven enterprise systems, workforce governance technology and hyperlocal digital marketplaces to support India’s evolving enterprise and retail ecosystem.

More here: https://www.opendhi.com

NTT DATA Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Accelerate Enterprise Cloud and Agentic AI Adoption

NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, today announced a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enterprises modernize legacy systems, adopt agentic AI responsibly and scale innovation across industries.

Combining NTT DATA’s expertise in cloud transformation, cloud-native modernization and Agentic AI with the scale and innovation velocity of AWS services, the collaboration will deliver tailored enterprise solutions that modernize mission-critical workloads, build secure cloud foundations and drive measurable business outcomes across regulated and high-growth industries.

Under the agreement, NTT DATA and AWS will accelerate enterprise transformation in four priority areas:

• AI-driven large-scale cloud transformation: Accelerating the migration and modernization of on-premises workloads on AWS, leveraging generative and agentic AI, automation and data platforms to unlock new business models and drive intelligent operations.
• Industry cloud solutions on AWS: Delivering modern industry-specific, repeatable offerings across financial services, healthcare, life sciences, public sector, manufacturing, retail and energy, leveraging NTT DATA’s Industry Cloud with 500+ extensible business components and AI agents.
• AI and data innovation for modern managed services and client experiences: Operating secure, compliant cloud environments at scale, including a recent collaboration agreement to modernize contact center solutions on Amazon Connect to accelerate the adoption of AI-driven customer experience (CX) solutions worldwide.
• Digital sovereignty and regulated cloud solutions on AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Enabling European governments and enterprises to meet stringent data residency and operational autonomy requirements. As a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, NTT DATA will deliver sovereign-by-design cloud solutions and managed services that combine regulatory compliance with the same security, availability and performance clients expect from AWS.

AWS will support NTT DATA in running co-innovation programs, certifications and client events, to help enterprises adopt AI driven cloud solutions faster and with greater confidence.

To advance delivery, NTT DATA has formed a dedicated AWS Business Group, aligned with the AWS sales and delivery structure. This group includes close to 11,000 AWS-certified experts, with the objective of certifying nearly 10,000 more experts over the next three years.

"Cloud and AI are central to enterprise transformation," said Abhijit Dubey, President and CEO, NTT DATA, Inc. “Through our Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS, we are helping clients move beyond experimentation to scale AI impactfully and responsibly. This collaboration underscores our commitment to deliver secure, industry-specific solutions that create tangible business value for our clients worldwide."

“This collaboration will help more enterprise organizations unlock the potential of the cloud and AI to modernize their operations and accelerate innovation,” said Greg Pearson, VP AWS Global Sales. “Through industry-aligned architecture platforms, AI-driven customer experiences, and support in meeting evolving regulatory requirements through the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, we’re enhancing the ability to transform legacy workloads and build modern digital experiences on AWS.”

Proven success with Honda Trading Asia

Honda Trading Asia successfully migrated to the AWS Cloud with the expert support of NTT DATA.

"Migrating to the AWS Cloud with the expert support of NTT DATA has been an essential step in modernizing our systems and infrastructure and provides us with a powerful foundation for AI innovation. NTT DATA were always available to address our technical questions and worked closely with us to stay within our timeline and budget. Their expertise and support ensured a smooth transition, unlocking exciting growth possibilities through AWS,” said Somya Mayuraskoon, Director, Honda Trading Asia Co., Ltd.

Driving AI innovation across industries

NTT DATA will develop dozens of new industry-specific, AI driven cloud solutions on AWS through its Industry Cloud platform to accelerate digital transformation across regulated and high-growth sectors.

• Financial services: The collaboration will modernize core banking and compliance workloads to reduce risk and ensure regulatory requirements.
• Healthcare and life sciences: With support from AWS, NTT DATA will develop secure, AI-enabled data platforms to deliver intelligent insights from business applications, improving outcomes and accelerating research.
• Public sector: NTT DATA will work with AWS to deliver private cloud solutions that meet compliance requirements and enable secure digital services for citizens.
• Manufacturing and automotive: The collaboration will modernize business and IT operations using generative AI and agentic capabilities, driving improved financial and operational efficiency.

Innovation environments on AWS, including sandboxes and dedicated innovation labs will enable NTT DATA and AWS teams to develop, test and refine these solutions before scaling them for enterprise deployment.

NTT DATA will support these innovations with a full-stack suite of services, from advisory and cloud transformation to implementation and managed services, ensuring clients can adopt AWS technologies with speed, security and confidence. This initiative also expands NTT DATA’s Smart AI AgentTM Ecosystem, helping enterprises deploy and manage responsible, business-driven AI at scale.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centres as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

Finvolve and IA Backs Aquila Clouds to Reshape Enterprise Cloud Management

Finvolve, the multi-stage VC fund of IA (India Accelerator), has recently invested in Aquila Clouds, a leading cloud & AI management platform. The investment aims at strengthening the company’s product and engineering infrastructure and scaling business and marketing activities.

Founded in 2020, Aquila Clouds addresses the pain points of large enterprises and small medium businesses (SMBs) related to cloud and AI management. Aquila Clouds addresses these challenges with its AI enabled platform. The platform provides real-time observability, chargeback, budget control (anomaly detection) and AI/ML driven optimization using Agentic AI workflows.

Commenting on the investment decision, Ashish Bhatia, Founder & CEO of IA & Co-Founder, Finvolve said, "At IA, we’re focused on backing deep-tech companies that are solving real-world enterprise challenges. Aquila Clouds is at the forefront of redefining how businesses manage cloud, Application and on-premises infrastructure using AI / ML , and we’re excited to support their global scale-up journey with our capital, network, and strategic guidance."

Delighted with the investment, Suchit Kaura, Co-Founder and CEO of Aquila Clouds said, "This investment comes at a pivotal juncture in our journey. As enterprises double down on AI, managing cloud costs and AI application performance has never been more critical. With the backing of two ecosystem-driven partners, we look forward to tapping into emerging markets, scale enterprise partnerships and strengthen our positioning as a critical platform for the AI era.”

Aquila Clouds will strategically deploy the funds to accelerate its growth across key fronts. The company plans to expand its global sales operations and scale its customer success function, while also strengthening its product and engineering teams. In parallel, it will refine its go-to-market strategy to drive deeper market penetration and enhance brand visibility across priority regions, including the US, Canada, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.

IA & Finvolve are known for their strong track record in nurturing high-potential startups, bringing deep domain expertise in emerging sectors such as deep tech, singularity, and artificial intelligence.. As part of the ambitious strategy, the entities aim to help Aquila Clouds capture a significant share of its almost $20 Bn addressable market.

About IA & Finvolve

IA is India’s premier startup factory with multiple sub-brands that enable the start-up ecosystem in India - India Accelerator supports the early stage startups with funding, mentorship and other benefits; Finvolve is a multi-thesis growth and late stage fund that empowers startups across their growth journey—from pre-seed to pre-IPO—through capital, strategic support, and ecosystem access. IA Spaces enables start-ups across 16 cities in India with access to co-working hubs and Third Place, which acts as India’s premium Business Cafe. IA is the recipient of the "Best Accelerator of the Country" award from Start-up India in 2022. Our commitment to fostering innovation and supporting upcoming founders has consistently positioned us at the forefront of the Indian start-up ecosystem.

Accenture Acqui-Hires Allitix, An Anaplan Solutions Expert

Accenture has announced the acquisition of Allitix, a consulting and technology company specializing in Anaplan solutions, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition adds 73 employees, including over 60 Anaplan functional and technical professionals, to Accenture Technology in North America.

The acquisition, announced on November 4, 2024, aims to expand Accenture's integrated enterprise planning capabilities.

Allitix is a consulting and technology company founded in 2017, by Mark Ishikawa, and headquartered in Irvine, California. The company specialize in Anaplan solutions, providing tailored services across financial planning and analysis, sales performance management, and supply chain.

Essentially, Anaplan is a cloud-based planning software that integrates financial planning, sales planning, supply chain planning, HR planning, and more into a single, unified system, empowering organizations across various industries to achieve better business outcomes.

As a trusted Anaplan partner, Allitix provides tailored Anaplan-based solutions across finance, sales, supply chain, and human resources functions, with specific competencies in the manufacturing, consumer, technology, media and telecom and financial services industries.

Anaplan's solutions are used by over 2,000 market-leading customers, including more than half of the Fortune 50 companies.

This acquisition is expected to help Accenture deliver integrated enterprise planning transformations for clients, driving better, faster insights and bottom-line value.

The acquisition strengthens Accenture's connected planning capabilities using Anaplan, helping organizations achieve better business outcomes

Allitix brings deep domain expertise in financial planning and analysis, sales performance management, and supply chain.

“Joining Accenture is an exciting opportunity for us. Our shared vision for transforming the way organizations operate through connected planning makes this a perfect fit,” said Mark Ishikawa, founder and managing partner, Allitix. “By combining Accenture’s technology and consulting capabilities and global reach with our deep expertise in Anaplan, we can offer unparalleled expertise, scale, and support to help our clients navigate complex planning environments and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving market.”

“Demand for connected enterprise planning is on the rise, given its ability to unlock business value and spur total enterprise reinvention,” said David Leckstein, senior managing director and lead, Americas Technology at Accenture. “Allitix’s highly skilled talent, deep domain expertise, and agile approach to implementation complements our broader digital capabilities and further expands our ability to deliver integrated enterprise planning transformations for our clients that drive better, faster insights and bottom-line value.”

NxtGen Launches SpeedCloud™, India's 1st Application Services Platform for Global Markets

• Set to Liberate Public Cloud Service Usage from Proprietary Technologies
• Powered by Openstack, SpeedCloud™ allows users self-service manageability in a simple and safe/secure virtual set-up, offering infinite speed & scalability coupled with unparalleled Price to Performance

NxtGen, a leading Cloud Technologies and Datacenter provider in India with existing Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) operations has launched its public cloud computing platform SpeedCloud™ available for global markets. Backed by best-in-class technology components and powered by Intel, Canonical and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, SpeedCloud™ is NxtGen’s endeavour is to simplify and strengthen the adoption of opensource technologies in the country. The Indian cloud computing market is pegged at $2.2 billion, according to a recent NASSCOM study while adoption of public cloud services is expected to grow to $4.1 billion as per a forecast by Gartner Inc., a US-based research and advisory company.

SpeedCloud™ is based on OpenStack and is uniquely equipped to help users to adopt cloud services at value based price points, compared to existing industry options. Enterprises should save up to 82% compared to global service providers and also get superior performance. SpeedCloudTM accelerates enterprises, start-up and individual developer efforts to build differentiated applications take it to market in matter of weeks by leveraging comprehensive resources available on-demand.

• Bare-metal servers for Gaming, High-performance Computing & low-latency database servers.
• High-performance virtual machines not just infrastructure as a service (IaaS), but also developer frameworks, SQL/NoSQL databases,
• Managed Kubernetes as a Service and a new high-performance LXD containers from Canonical
• Software as a Service – ready applications built by NxtGen’s in-house team and other ISVs are available

Every application requires few core-capabilities, to process payments, video/audio, data and protect & manage user identities and will be available off the shelf for developers to integrate into their applications and reduce their time to market. SpeedCloudTM had been rolled out for a select few customers for their comprehensive testing and valuable inputs. Over 300 gaming servers are being used by customers across Europe and are thrilled by their performance.

SpeedCloudTM High-performance Computing Cluster was built with know-how and collaboration from HPE-Cray and Intel’s new generation processors, it is being used by few of the premier technology institutions across the country. This would be made available to all technology education institutions for free on a time-share basis so that students can learn to use super-computing models for research.

SpeedCloudTM is readily available for global customers at speedcloud.nxtgen.com.

India is a large country with millions of enterprises, to ensure customers are well engaged, NxtGen is rolling out SpeedCloudTM via 2,000+ value added partners. These partners are being trained not just to sell these services, but offer managed services for deploying, migrating and managing these cloud services.

Mr. A. S. Rajgopal, CEO of NxtGen Infinite Datacenter

Commenting on its launch, Mr. A. S. Rajgopal, CEO of NxtGen Infinite Datacenter said, “We at NxtGen take pride in presenting SpeedCloud, a decentralised cloud service built to revolutionize the cloud space globally. It is built to empower users to customise and deploy cloud services on their own terms at unmatched economics and performance. SpeedCloud™ offers a comprehensive platform for building and running applications. At NxtGen, our users are our priority and it is our passion to extend high quality cost-effective services/solutions to them.”

Click-to-deployment mechanisms & speedy deployments of enterprise applications, pre-integrated modules for complete control, independent operations and services, highly secure physical and logical isolation of workloads, feasibility to scale up or down of workloads and seamless automation and integration between services and modules, makes SpeedCloud™ user-friendly. It also empowers users with its rapid application deployment across Bare Metal, Virtual Machine and Container-based Deployments. Furthermore, a study conducted by Cloud Spectator validates NxtGen’s superior Price-Performance efficiency, best-in-class value and cost optimisation to existing offerings in the market.

A team of cloud experts will also be available to assist and help resolve issues in real time.

About NxtGen Infinite Datacenter

NxtGen is a Bangalore-headquartered, leading cloud-based service and Datacenter provider in India. Founded in 2012, NxtGen’s differentiated customer centric approach helps users of different scales, leverage NxtGen provided, reliable, secure, flexible, simplified IT solutions, through an existing, robust infrastructure at reduced running costs. NxtGen’s Infinite Datacenter vision, is a state where customers have elastic IT infrastructure available on-demand, and pay-per-use, resulting in freeing IT budgets to invest in new application roll-outs. The key services include a complete cloud cover, fulfilled through its Infinite Datacenter, IT Infrastructure Services, IT continuity Services, IT Transformation Services.

Learn more about how NxtGen Infinite Datacenter enables hyper-converged hybrid compute infrastructure at www.nxtgen.com.