Tata Communications, a leading provider of A New World of Communications™ today announces that it has become a Google Cloud Platform Authorized Services Partner. Under the terms of this agreement, Google's new service, Google Cloud Interconnect will connect with Tata Communications' IZO™ Public, a cloud enablement service that provides a dedicated and deterministic route, for businesses, into Google's cloud.

Through the IZO™ Public cloud enablement service, Tata Communications and Google will be collaborating to provide businesses with a simple and future-proof way to connect and build their cloud over the public Internet-providing unparalleled performance, reach, and capacity ensuring a consistently good user experience for enterprise end-customers.

Julie Woods-Moss, CEO, NextGen Business, Tata Communications says, ''We're delighted to announce another milestone around IZO™, our enterprise WAN and cloud enablement platform as a Google Cloud Platform Authorized Services Partner with our IZO™ Public service. Together with Google, we are committed in creating an ecosystem to make the Internet fit for business to address how businesses use the Internet to connect to the cloud in a secure and predictable way.''

Shares of the company declined Rs 1.75, or 0.42%, to settle at Rs 410.05. The total volume of shares traded was 108,390 at the BSE (Wednesday).