Tech Mahindra and AMD have formed a strategic partnership to develop and deliver advanced infrastructure and cloud solutions aimed at accelerating enterprise digital transformation. The collaboration will focus on building hyper-scalable solutions that bridge on-premise infrastructure with cloud-native capabilities, leveraging the strengths of both technology giants to meet the growing demands for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads.
This alliance will merge AMD’s powerful EPYC processors and Instinct accelerators with Tech Mahindra’s comprehensive Cloud BlazeTech platform. The goal is to create optimized solutions for businesses in critical sectors, including manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare. By creating a unified offering compatible across end-user devices, servers, and diverse cloud infrastructures—spanning public, private, and hybrid models—the companies aim to help enterprises navigate the increasing complexity of modern IT ecosystems while maximizing their return on investment.
Addressing Modern Infrastructure Demands
The partnership directly addresses a critical challenge facing modern enterprises: the need to modernize IT infrastructure to support the intensive demands of AI and cloud-native applications. Research conducted in autumn 2024 by Vanson Bourne highlights this gap, revealing that over 80% of 1,500 surveyed IT and DevOps decision-makers believe their current infrastructure requires significant improvement to effectively handle containers and cloud-native workloads. This infrastructure deficit often becomes a roadblock to innovation and operational efficiency.
Furthermore, the push towards generative AI has added another layer of complexity. The 2025 Enterprise Cloud Index report found that while more than 80% of organizations have a generative AI strategy in place, they simultaneously face significant hurdles related to data security, regulatory compliance, and the underlying modernization of their IT systems. According to Mohit Joshi, CEO and Managing Director at Tech Mahindra, the collaboration with AMD is a direct response to this market reality. “Our strategic agreement with AMD is a step towards delivering next-generation hyper scalable solutions that seamlessly bridge on-site infrastructure with cloud-native capabilities,” Joshi stated.
Integrating Advanced Processing Hardware
At the core of the collaboration is AMD’s portfolio of high-performance computing hardware. AMD will contribute its EPYC processors and Instinct accelerators, which are specifically designed to handle the rigorous computational requirements of modern data centers and AI applications. These components provide the raw processing power necessary for enterprises to deploy demanding AI models and manage large-scale data operations efficiently across various environments.
AMD EPYC Processors
The joint solutions will feature AMD’s latest processor technology, including the 5th Generation EPYC 9005 Series launched in October 2024. Built on the Zen 5 core architecture, these processors deliver a substantial performance uplift, with AMD reporting up to 37% higher instructions per clock in AI and high-performance computing scenarios compared to the previous generation. For specific AI workloads, the performance gains are even more pronounced; the 192-core EPYC 9965 processor can provide up to 3.7 times the performance on end-to-end AI tasks. Another key component, the AMD EPYC 9575F processor, delivers over 10 times the performance of competing Intel Xeon chips for latency-constrained AI inference tasks.
Instinct Accelerators
Complementing the EPYC central processing units are the AMD Instinct accelerators, which are engineered to accelerate AI training and inference. These powerful graphics processing units are crucial for the parallel processing required by deep learning models. By combining these accelerators with Tech Mahindra’s platform, the partnership enables customers to build and deploy sophisticated AI solutions on compute infrastructure that spans hybrid and multi-cloud environments, as noted by Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO at AMD.
Leveraging a Unified Cloud Platform
Tech Mahindra’s contribution to the partnership is its Cloud BlazeTech platform, an integrated solution designed to streamline an enterprise’s journey to the cloud. The platform simplifies migration, enables intelligent operational management, and provides unified governance across disparate cloud environments. It serves as the software and services layer that harnesses the power of AMD’s hardware, making it accessible and manageable for enterprise clients. Tech Mahindra currently manages cloud operations for over 300 clients, with these services generating more than $700 million in annual revenue.
Cloud BlazeTech offers pre-built, industry-specific solutions, automation capabilities, and governance frameworks that help businesses enhance agility and control costs. By integrating AMD’s compute engines directly into this platform, Tech Mahindra aims to deliver a cohesive and optimized solution that removes many of the technical barriers to cloud and AI adoption. “Through these solutions, we aim to enable customers to optimise performance across distributed environments without compromising speed, security or control,” Joshi explained.
A Strategic Focus on Hybrid Environments
The collaboration is strategically aligned with the dominant trend in enterprise IT: the adoption of hybrid cloud models. Analyst firm Gartner predicts that by 2027, a remarkable 90% of organizations will have adopted a hybrid cloud approach, blending on-premise data centers with public and private cloud services. This distributed model offers flexibility but also introduces significant challenges, particularly for AI implementation. Gartner identified data synchronization across these varied landscapes as the most pressing challenge for deploying effective AI solutions.
The joint Tech Mahindra and AMD offering is engineered specifically for these hybrid realities. It provides a consistent foundation for deploying applications and managing data, whether they reside in a corporate data center or with a major cloud provider. This approach helps enterprises maintain control over their data and operations while still benefiting from the scalability and innovation of the cloud. As Dr. Su commented, the partnership will “create solutions that enable customers to deploy AI on compute infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.”
Charting a Path for Enterprise AI
The long-term vision for the partnership is to provide a clear roadmap for businesses to not only adopt AI but to scale it effectively and efficiently. This aligns with market projections that see AI becoming a central component of IT infrastructure. Gartner forecasts that by 2029, half of all cloud compute resources will be dedicated to supporting AI workloads. Simultaneously, Gartner reported that for 2025, cloud infrastructure and platform services are projected to account for 72% of IT spending on infrastructure as a service and platform as a service.
By combining cutting-edge hardware with a mature cloud management platform, Tech Mahindra and AMD are positioning themselves to capture a significant portion of this expanding market. Their collaboration aims to provide a practical, high-performance pathway for enterprises to overcome infrastructure limitations and unlock the full potential of their AI strategies, ensuring they have the performance and efficiency needed to scale their innovations.
