Microsoft public cloud Butterfly effect or trigger foreign investment cloud computing new upsurge

The butterflies have begun to spread their wings. The Microsoft public Cloud Project in Shanghai, or will trigger a foreign investment in China cloud computing boom.

Foreign merchant's first public cloud landed in China

Yesterday afternoon, Microsoft announced in Shanghai and Shanghai, century interconnected Broadband data Center (hereinafter referred to as the century interconnection) to the Microsoft's Enterprise cloud Services Office 365 and Windows Azure extended to China. This is the first foreign-owned public cloud service introduced in China.

It is reported that China's enterprise-class customers will enjoy the Microsoft Authorized century Internet operations Office 365 and Windows Azure services. Office 365 is Microsoft's SaaS (software as a service), while Windows Azure is a PAAs (platform-service).

Photo of Microsoft Public Cloud service Windows Azure official website screenshot

Microsoft, of course, says Microsoft will use Microsoft's data centers in other Asia-Pacific countries to provide Office 365 services to customers in China who want to use the services that Microsoft runs and delivers directly. Services from these data centres will be subject to the laws of the countries and regions in which they are located.

Where Office 365 China operates to provide domestic customers with services such as online office, e-mail, portal collaboration, and Unified Communications, Windows Azure China operates a public cloud computing platform for domestic customers (including computing, storage, database, consolidation, and networking services).

In order to ensure the normal operation of the above services, according to Microsoft's cooperation with Shanghai and Pudong New area, Century interconnection will operate an Internet Data center and provide services in Pudong, Shanghai.

Office 365 and Windows Azure are the two big products Microsoft has moved into the era of cloud computing. Microsoft Office 365 has been publicly tested in 13 countries and regions since 2010.

Windows Azure is a cloud computing operating system developed by Microsoft that provides the operating system and underlying storage and management platform needed for cloud online services, one of the core components of Microsoft's cloud computing strategy, and part of Microsoft's online services strategy.

With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, software development models and business models will enter a new era of fully open combination. Microsoft Cloud Computing platform Windows Azure will bring many industries into a new era. Azure, which comes from French and has the same blue color as the sky, Microsoft hopes to turn Windows Azure into a blue sky that hosts all applications and services on the cloud.

Windows Azure began its commercial operation in February 2010 and currently has 89 countries that can use the Windows Azure platform service. Not only is Windows Azure available for external cloud applications, it also serves as a platform for many of Microsoft's cloud services, such as Office 365 and Windows Intune.

Cloud Computing's first portal ZDNet to top network executive Vice editor-in-chief Chi in an interview with CNET Science and technology Information Network, said, "Microsoft's introduction of its public cloud services into the Chinese market is good for Chinese customers, with local data centers guaranteeing the efficiency of cloud computing, while cloud computing services will be more timely and comprehensive. ”

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)