{"id":108240,"date":"2017-07-26T03:25:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=108240"},"modified":"2017-07-26T03:25:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:25:28","slug":"microsoft-bets-big-on-cloud-eyes-new-customers-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/26\/microsoft-bets-big-on-cloud-eyes-new-customers-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft bets big on cloud, eyes new customers in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_108261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/15966273430_941c9640e2_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108261\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/15966273430_941c9640e2_o-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft has been pushing its Azure cloud service in India. Its competitors include AWS and Google, among others. (Photo by Mike Mozart\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/15966273430_941c9640e2_o-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/15966273430_941c9640e2_o-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/15966273430_941c9640e2_o-1024x649.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microsoft has been pushing its Azure cloud service in India. Its competitors include AWS and Google, among others. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeepersmedia\/15966273430\/in\/photolist-qjTjQo-qjTkkG-pEF2Hc-qjSEJm-qjZEuF-qzaaz9-owZ4o4-pEF2Sk-pErGbU-pErGVu-qzaafw-ovee7S-qBgzEK-qBntWQ-ofLrLv-6EX2CH-qjSDNy-qza9PG-pErGTA-pErGqm-pEF2Cc-qza9yw-pEF26k-pErGiY-qBnsMA-qjSEow-rcjTrK-rtFhW7-AHzD1-NP381R-4s9mqe-4tCp8M-dGyrX-L9aqg-L8VDW-f7sz-5D68f7-68rzD-L8VNC-9mtDtV-NP38de-NuepgN-vfHoyy-9mwJgj-jQSMKQ-7Hi4KT-4pq2tD-4rajfL-8qm3fE-85V8X6\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeepersmedia\/\">Mike Mozart\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">NEW Delhi, July 26 &#8212; Global technology giant Microsoft is shifting to higher gear in getting more customers on board for its cloud-based services in India as it aggressively targets new as well as existing cloud technology users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">&#8220;Anybody who is on the cloud in India and anybody who has the potential to be on the cloud in India is a conversation for us,&#8221; Microsoft India President Anant Maheshwari told PTI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Maheshwari further said: &#8220;I am sure there will be a lot of speculation around how what is the content of those conversations (with potential customers). Unless we have something real that we would have agreed on with the customer, we can&#8217;t talk about it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">The comments assume significance amid reports that Microsoft Corporation could invest up to USD 100 million (Rs 640 crore) in buying a small stake in cab aggregator Ola.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Citing sources, the reports said the deal could see the ride-hailing service switch to Microsoft&#8217;s Azure cloud platform from Amazon Web Services (AWS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Maheshwari remained tight-lipped on these reports, instead of saying the company doesn&#8217;t comment on market speculations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Microsoft has been pushing its Azure cloud service in India. Its competitors include AWS and Google, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">In February this year, Microsoft had announced a long- term cloud services deal with e-commerce platform, Flipkart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Later, in April, Microsoft was part of the USD 1.4 billion fund raising round by the online retailer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Microsoft has already set up three data centers in India to offer secure commercial cloud services in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW Delhi, July 26 &#8212; Global technology giant Microsoft is shifting to higher gear in getting more customers on board &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":108261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,5,17],"tags":[447,1604,1335],"class_list":["post-108240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news","category-technology","category-news-w","tag-india","tag-microsoft","tag-technology-2","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}