Microsoft Launches Three Cloud Data Centers in India

“Today’s Microsoft launch of commercial cloud services from local data centres is a milestone, which has taken the mission of Digital India and Digital Maharashtra to the next level”, he said. “Mesosphere DCOS and Mesos are de facto technologies for enterprise-grade Docker orchestration, and the partnership between Mesosphere and Microsoft will give customers unmatched choice and flexibility in managing their container investments, delivering a first-class implementation and enterprise support experience on Azure”. “Being a Microsoft CSP helps further our mission of providing always available, always easy hosting services so our customers can focus on their business and provide value to their customers”.

Three regions have been opened: Central India in Pune, South India in Chennai and West India in Mumbai. Customers can leverage BT’s network and systems integration strengths, in combining their own cloud with Microsoft’s cloud under a single service wrap from BT. Azure services are available in India today, with Office 365 services slated for October 2015, and Dynamics CRM Online services to follow in the first half of 2016. A couple of days ago, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had announced availability of its cloud services operating out of India’s data centres. The N-series is powered by NVIDIA graphics processing units and features NVIDIA Grid 2.0 technology and Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform.

Microsoft has announced new solutions spanning containers, security, infrastructure and the IoT for its Azure cloud platform. The company has more than 100 data centres located in over 40 countries. The service is based on open source and will therefore support Windows Server containers in the future. The company has introduced Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT programme, with current partners including Texas Instruments, Freescale Intel and Raspberry Pi.

With the assurance of local data residency, programs like digital lockers and digital identity will also move quickly and enable better citizen services.

Microsoft did something similar recently with the Cortana Analytics Suite.

Yesterday, the company announced a few improvements and enhancements to Azure Data Lake.

Offering integration with security services from companies like Barracuda, Checkpoint, Cisco, Imperva and Trend Micro, the new offering can analyze information gathered from customers’ deployments and compare it with global threat intelligence aggregated by Microsoft. Eleven months after Amazon and five behind Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.is finally rolling out its own managed container platform to help developers run their microservices projects in the public cloud. We are enabling the development of new markets and transformation of industries and society, invisibly creating opportunity for a globally connected population.