Microsoft driving Cloud Business in India
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft India(NASDAQ:MSFT) has announced that a significant portion of its growth in India in the last 12 months has come from its cloud business. Scalability, reduced costs, flexibility, business agility and speed in new service rollout are some of the reasons enterprises in India are attracted to cloud services. With its large partner and developer ecosystem, Microsoft is helping Indian organizations assess and transition to the cloud easily. Microsoft has 10,000 partners and engages with an ecosystem of 1.6 million developers in the country. “Microsoft is powering the cloud transition in India with Windows Azure and a set of comprehensive offerings across private, hybrid and public clouds,” said Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India , at the Windows Azure Conference in Bengaluru. “We are adding over 2,000 commercial cloud customers every month in India and these are customers across all industry sectors ...