Microsoft Vahe Torossian: Cloud computing will help small and medium enterprises to grow green

Canada local time July 10, Microsoft Global Partners Conference in Toronto entered the next day. This afternoon, Vahe Torossian, vice president of Microsoft's global small market solutions and Partners Division, introduced Microsoft's achievements in cloud computing and its future development strategy, noting that cloud computing has been surging and has had a positive impact on developed and developing countries, And it will make small and medium-sized enterprises become more effective, and will help them to be evergreen.

Vahe Torossian told reporters that for small and medium-sized enterprises, cloud computing will play a catalytic role in its development. By using cloud computing services, SMEs can further reduce it costs and increase availability and flexibility. For example, Japan, Thailand, China, Taiwan and other countries and regions, natural disasters frequently.

For example, last year there was a flood in Thailand, many companies were affected, one of them in a week or so to complete the IT system rebuilding, while another company without cloud deployment, very miserable, has not yet started. "Cloud computing is a magic weapon for rebuilding IT systems after a disaster," Vahe Torossian said. ”

Today, cross-border mergers and acquisitions are common, and companies that do not deploy cloud computing can consolidate their IT architectures within 6-12 months, while companies deploying cloud computing can complete IT system consolidation in 1 weeks.

The cloud computing market is expected to reach $148 billion trillion by 2014, according to Gartner.

Vahe Torossian said that now the cloud computing era has entered a new stage, the company no longer on the cloud hold a wait and see attitude. In the HBR study, 85% of the companies said they would transition from a modest use of the cloud to a large cloud of usage over the next three years.

The market is so hot that Microsoft, which has worked in the cloud market for many years, naturally has its own unique strategy.

Vahe Torossian introduced that Microsoft has made great strides in the cloud computing market, and that products and services have been well integrated. Microsoft's cloud infrastructure now supports more than 1 billion customers and 20 million companies, and Microsoft will continue to invest and increase capacity. By 2015, nearly 14 million new jobs around the world will be created by cloud computing.

"Recent IDC surveys show that almost all Microsoft products and services can be run in the cloud (Microsoft Office with Office 365, Windows Server and Windows Azure, Xbox with Xbox Live, etc.). ”

Vahe Torossian said, "Enterprise customers in the choice of cloud computing solutions, especially the security factors." Microsoft aims to create an easy-to-use, stable and secure cloud for its customers. Microsoft has a world-class data center in North America, Europe and Asia and has a comprehensive and effective accident response mechanism. The Microsoft Security Incident Management Team (Msim) operates 24x7 through 4 global action centers and has failover capabilities in the event of a disaster. For critical business application and data availability requirements, Microsoft employs geographically redundant service hosting. At present, more than 30 million people worldwide use Office Web Apps. ”

Referring to Microsoft's specific strategy for small and medium-sized Enterprises, Vahe Torossian lists a set of data, "Each month we have 1000 new partners in the sale of Microsoft's cloud computing services; We have 55,000 partners selling our cloud services every month. SMB customers account for more than 90% of the entire economy in most countries and are the main consumers of cloud computing services; In the past year our cloud computing services, such as the 80% customers of Office 365, are small and medium-sized enterprises, which are embodied not only in O365, but also in CRM. 60% of traditional CRM users have turned to CRM Online services. ”

"One of the keys to the success of Microsoft's cloud computing strategy and our competitiveness is that Microsoft has brought the experience of large enterprises to small and medium-sized enterprises," Vahe Torossian, who is so fond of Microsoft's cloud computing solution. Our success lies not only in technology, but in our three major commitments to our customers, and our customers ' three major concerns about deploying cloud computing: Security, privacy, and legal compliance. ”

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)