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Microsoft India Unveils Windows Azure Platform

By ChannelWorld Bureau Tue, Mar 09, 2010

Microsoft India announced the commercial availability of the Windows Azure Platform, an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft’s datacenters.

“Microsoft has always led the industry in the software space. With businesses looking to the cloud to bring higher efficiencies, it is natural for us to extend our strength and expertise of the past 15 years in the cloud space and offer the value of our experience to customers,” said Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft India.

While with Azure, Microsoft is making the Platform available as a service; over the last two years Microsoft has already launched products and solutions in India across other layers as part of its cloud strategy for enterprises. These include hosted Dynamics, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Online Services, Windows Server, SystemCentre and the Dynamic Data Centre Toolkit. “This completes our cloud stack,” said Mr Anandan. “All of our popular products are already cloud-ready, and we have a clear future roadmap to provide anytime, anywhere access across diverse devices spanning computer, mobile and Internet. We are ready today to help customers leverage the benefits of cloud services,” he added.

More than 50 partners including HCL Technologies, Wings Info, Cerebrate and CDC Software are developing commercial applications and solutions on Windows Azure platform. “We strongly believe Indian enterprises are ready for the cloud, and we are excited about the opportunity that Windows Azure platform brings to companies like us. We will be able to rapidly deliver cloud based applications that work seamlessly with the rest of the enterprise infrastructure, helped along by Microsoft's holistic cloud strategy.', said GH Rao, Corporate VP and Head, Engineering and R&D Services, HCL.

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