Nadella announces cloud services from local data centres by 2015
Microsoft chief executive officer (CEO), Satya Nadella on Tuesday announced to offer commercial cloud services from Indian datacenters by 2015
New Delhi: As part of his first visit to India as Microsoft chief executive officer (CEO), Satya Nadella on Tuesday announced to offer commercial cloud services from Indian datacenters by 2015 as the company seeks to tap what it calls a $2 trillion market in the country where internet users are growing rapidly.
“When you think about the cloud opportunity in India itself, it is going to be a $2 trillion opportunity. Just as in the case of mobile devices, India was able to leapfrog with the adoption of mobile devices. I believe that the cloud infrastructure is going to help Indian companies, Indian gover-nment and every Indian entrepreneur, to be able to really revitalise the productivity of this economy,” said Hyderabad-born CEO said.
Microsoft will set up three data centres in three cities in India by the end of 2015.“Last year, our cloud business in India grew over 100 per cent. Buoyed by that success, we have now decided to offer cloud services from local data centres,” he said.
This will help us make global infrastructure and make that available to local data centres,” Mr Nadella.Hyderabad-born Nadella is Microsoft’s third chief executive officer, after its founder Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
“There are 250 million Indians using internet-connected mobile devices today and that’s only going to grow. The one thing that you can be sure of is that for every connected smartphone you need to have cloud infrastructure that is hosting the applications, the data and the intelligence,” said India-born Microsoft CEO said. Microsoft attempts to have local servers will help the firms which will be required by the government to keep data within the country as concerns emerge on national security front after Snowden revelations.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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