Wipro extends partnership with Google Cloud; Stock shines

One of the leading information technology companies, Wipro, has announced that it has extended its strategic partnership with Google Cloud. This partnership is aimed at accelerating cloud adoption and digital transformation for global enterprises.

According to Wipro, the collaboration with Google Cloud will bring about innovation for enterprises in industry verticals such as consumer goods, BFSI, semiconductor, and healthcare, through a 'business-first' strategy.

The company said that it has a dedicated practice focused on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The practice controls business and technology transformation for enterprises and helps them win in an 'experience economy' through differentiated offerings around application modernisation, data, analytics, artificial intelligence, SAP workload migration, and industrialised cloud migration at scale. Wipro is using GCP to build industry-leading solutions and capabilities that would help companies adopt cloud services.

The company has also mentioned that in order to accelerate Google Cloud adoption across enterprises at scale, Wipro's Cloud Studio and Enterprise Digital Operations Center have been integrated with Velostrata, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and other Google Cloud services to bring a DevOps-oriented pipeline approach to industrialised migration. Wipro will also integrate Anthos, Google's open platform for managing applications in a multi-cloud world into these offerings to enable hybrid cloud deployments for its customers.

On Friday, shares of Wipro are trading near Rs. 252.70, up by Rs. 3.70 or 1.49 per cent over the previous close of Rs. 249.00. The stock had opened at Rs. 250.00. It had hit an intraday high of Rs. 253.40 and intraday low of Rs. 249.20 on BSE.