Microsoft public Cloud falls into Shanghai

"It is not certain whether this is the first public cloud business in the mainland, but this cooperation is a major milestone in the domestic establishment of Microsoft's public cloud services." November 1, Beijing century Internet Broadband Data Center Co., Ltd. (nasdaq:vnet, hereinafter referred to as "century interconnection") President Shang and the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission related to the reporter pointed out.

In the afternoon, Microsoft teamed up with the century Internet to announce the expansion of Microsoft's Enterprise cloud Services Office 365 and Windows Azure to China. Century interconnection has a local data center operating IDC license, Microsoft will be licensed to its technology, from the century interconnection in China operations and provide Office 365 and Windows Azure.

Where Office 365 includes online office, e-mail, portal collaboration, unified Communications, and Windows Azure provides a common cloud computing platform service that includes computing, storage, database, consolidation, and networked services. For local customers who want to use Microsoft's direct operations and delivery services, Microsoft will use its data centers in other countries in the region to provide Office 365 services.

The Shanghai government is also involved in signing the MOU, pledging to take the lead in deploying Office 365 and Windows Azure in government offices. As Shanghai's cloud computing application demonstration Zone, the Pudong New area will actively promote the application of Microsoft public cloud technology in relevant industries, and with Microsoft to explore the promotion of intelligent Pudong Construction (600284, shares bar).

According to the reporter, Shanghai since August 2010 issued a "Sea of clouds Plan", that is, from the Cloud data center construction, key technology research and development, application promotion, business model innovation and other aspects of the development of cloud computing industrialization, including the Pudong New area to undertake the Internet-oriented large-scale cloud platform construction, Based on cloud computing electronic payment and E-commerce integrated services platform and other countries, city-level cloud computing Application demonstration Project construction, has already formed the basic pattern of cloud computing industry and application development in the fields of hardware and equipment manufacturing, infrastructure operation, infrastructure namely service, platform namely service, software namely service and data namely service.

"Cloud computing is reshaping the pattern of economic growth and commercial competition. "Microsoft will work closely with the Government and partners to promote the rapid development of cloud computing ecosystems in China and related research and development, and make cloud computing the backbone of future economic and industrial growth," said Dr Zhang, senior global vice president and Chairman of Asia Pacific Research and Development Group.