Microsoft has launched comprehensive cloud services offerings for India. Several announcements by Microsoft partners echoed the big bets they are placing on Microsoft cloud services platform.
India, with its powerful ecosystem of over 1,300 independent software vendors (ISVs), 1.4 million developers and more than 11,000 system integrators (SIs and Custom software development organizations), is ideally poised to address this growing opportunity. As a result, over the next 5 years, an additional 300,000 jobs related to cloud services are estimated to be created in India.
Speaking on the subject, Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation, said, "India will not only see a surge in consumption of cloud services, driving growth in domestic IT usage, but companies all over the world will look to India to support their transition to cloud computing. Microsoft is committed to helping businesses both in India and across the world maximize business value by leveraging the benefits that the cloud offers."
MS partners, NIIT will train over 100,000 students on Windows Azure over the next three years; Cognizant announced the creation of a vertically aligned set of industry frameworks and pre-built solution accelerators to enable implementation, migration and management of cloud-enabled application portfolios built on Azure for clients both in India and globally; CDC Software announced the global rollout of its flagship product "CDC Respond" (a complaint and feedback management application for banking and government sectors) on Windows Azure; and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is building a large-scale application on Windows Azure to study the basic resource allocation constructs and strategies required for addressing enterprise needs on the cloud.
Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service will be delivered by Microsoft cloud services. As a result, businesses can choose to adopt a mix of cloud-based and on-premise computing models while experiencing the same familiar environment and fidelity.
Microsoft's cloud infrastructure already supports over one billion customers and 20 million businesses globally.
