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Wipro plans $1 bn investment in Cloud business

Wipro announced it will invest $1 billion in cloud technologies, capabilities, acquisitions and partnerships over the next three years.
Wipro at MWC 2018Wipro on Tuesday announced the launch of Wipro FullStride Cloud Services. Wipro employs over 79,000 cloud professionals and more than 10,000 people certified by the leading cloud service providers.

Wipro FullStride Cloud Services is a collaboration between Wipro’s Chief Growth Office and existing Global Business Lines to create an integrated and comprehensive cloud transformation capability for customers, partners and cloud experts.

“With our $1 billion investment in cloud capabilities, and the launch of Wipro FullStride Cloud Services, we are in a far stronger position to simplify, orchestrate and accelerate the cloud journey for our clients,” said Thierry Delaporte, chief executive officer and managing director, Wipro.

Wipro announced significant cloud-related wins with Telefonica Germany / O2, Verifone, and E.ON in addition to METRO.

“For a company like METRO that operates in 25 countries, quickly migrating to the cloud enables decentralization, agility, speed and flexibility in engineering and development. We are delighted to have a multi-year strategic partner and leader like Wipro to support our cloud strategy and simplify a complex, technology ecosystem for our success and growth,” said Timo Salzsieder, CIO, METRO.

Stephanie Trautman, chief growth officer, Wipro, said: “With the introduction of the chief growth office, we are renewing our focus on our global partnership ecosystem, amplifying and simplifying how we go to market together to orchestrate cloud transformation for our clients. We will announce a new leader for this group very soon.”

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