Microsoft creates technology to connect cloud to competitor’s data center

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Microsoft on Tuesday (2/11) local time, announced a new round of technology aimed at making services available cloud work in the data centers of other institutions or companies, including those of their competitors.

Microsoft executives and analysts say this strategy is key to the company’s rise in the infrastructure market cloud, which is estimated at 64.3 billion US dollars or equivalent to Rp. 918 trillion according to Gartner research, quoted by Reuters on Wednesday.

This figure makes Microsoft second only to Amazon.

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Last week, Microsoft said that revenue from Azure grew 48 percent so that the company managed to overtake Apple.

Head cloud and Microsoft artificial intelligence Scott Guthrie said the move was also an attempt to persuade some customers to continue using the company’s services even if they couldn’t use Microsoft’s data centers.

The Royal Bank of Canada, for example, had to face legal requirements to keep some of its computing work in its own data center and use Azure Arc to connect those facilities to its own data center. cloud Microsoft.

“The freedom of movement makes customers feel much more comfortable when using the service,” said Guthrie.

Meanwhile, leading analyst vice president Ed Anderson said the approach opened the door for Microsoft and customers, but also forced the company to compete on the quality of its software services.

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Translator: Suci Nurhaliza
Editor: Maria Rosary Dwi Putri
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