New Delhi, Dec. 8 -- Larsen & Toubro Ltd. aims to establish a sovereign cloud as part of its initiative to build data centres in the country, becoming the third homegrown company after Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Bharti Airtel Ltd. to set up computing infrastructure specifically for India.

"Sovereign cloud is an area of major demand across the country. Today, it's not just government bodies that are showing up as customers-demand is rising from regulated sectors such as financial services, while other areas such as healthcare and telecommunications have major clients because these are sectors that require data localization," said Seema Ambastha, chief executive of Vyoma, L&T's cloud and data centre business. "Overall, as we build o...