IBM and Yotta Data Services Partner to Deliver Agentic AI Platform for Indian Enterprises
IBM and Yotta Announce Agentic AI Platform for Indian Enterprises
IBM and Yotta Data Services announced in May 2026 plans to enter into a strategic partnership to deliver an Agentic AI platform for enterprises and government organisations in India. The platform is proposed to be built using IBM watsonx Orchestrate and deployed on Yotta's Shakti Cloud, to help organisations scale AI adoption while meeting evolving requirements around data residency, security, and regulatory compliance.
The Partnership's Technical Foundation
The proposed platform will enable organisations to deploy and manage AI agents across IT service management, HR, finance, procurement, and customer support. As part of the collaboration, IBM and Yotta also intend to bring IBM Sovereign Core onto Yotta's Shakti Cloud, a software platform designed to help organisations build and operate AI-ready sovereign environments — delivering continuous compliance monitoring, verifiable control, and governed AI execution across data, operations, technology, and AI.
Together, the two offerings are intended to give Indian organisations a complete foundation for deploying agentic AI at scale, without compromising on compliance or control.
Meeting India's Digital Sovereignty Requirements
Yotta's Shakti Cloud provides scalable GPU infrastructure and AI services designed for Indian enterprises. By intending to host IBM Sovereign Core on Yotta's Shakti Cloud — an India-based, MeitY-empanelled infrastructure — the partnership aims to deliver a sovereign environment purpose-built for India's regulatory requirements, supporting enterprises and government organisations in meeting data residency mandates, maintaining audit-ready compliance evidence, and deploying AI workloads within defined sovereign boundaries.
Target Industries and Go-to-Market Approach
The companies plan to jointly pursue proofs-of-concept, solution co-creation and technical enablement programmes across industries, including BFSI, public sector, manufacturing and digital-native businesses.
Yotta's Role Within Hiranandani Group
Darshan Hiranandani is the Chairman and Co-founder of Yotta Data Services and also serves as CEO of the Hiranandani Group, a leading real estate and infrastructure development company. Yotta operates Tier III and Tier IV campuses in Navi Mumbai and Greater Noida, delivering colocation, cloud, managed IT, and AI platform services.
Its offerings include Yntraa Cloud, India's MeitY-empanelled sovereign cloud, and Shakti Cloud, an NVIDIA-powered AI compute platform for large-scale model training and deployment. Yotta is the only NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud Partner in APAC, with early access to latest GPUs and AI frameworks — supported by strategic alliances with Microsoft, Dell, HPE, and Red Hat.
Strategic Context for Enterprise AI Adoption
As enterprises move from AI experimentation to operational deployment, there is increasing demand for platforms that can orchestrate AI-driven workflows across business functions while maintaining governance and control. IBM's Managing Director for India & South Asia noted that the collaboration will combine IBM's AI capabilities with Yotta's sovereign cloud infrastructure to help organisations scale AI responsibly — embedding sovereignty, governance, transparency, and trust from the outset.