Microsoft public Cloud officially in China Business: not afraid of any opponents

On the morning of March 27, Microsoft China announced yesterday afternoon that the Microsoft Azure Public cloud service, which was run by the century Internet, was officially commercial. This is the first official commercial international public cloud service platform in China. Open business, which means that any company can now pay to use the service, and no longer through the Microsoft China selection.

Microsoft Public Cloud services currently has more than 3,000 experience customers in China, and more than 160 users are paying or are about to pay for the service.

At yesterday's press conference, Microsoft China said it would issue 2000 more free user experience accounts. At the same time, Microsoft has officially renamed Windows Azure Microsoft Azure.

Rapid customer Growth

The partnership between Microsoft and the century was at the end of 2012, and a very unique public cloud technology licensing model was adopted. The reason for this model is that the operation of the public cloud services to set up a data center, while the domestic temporarily does not open the data center for foreign capital, in order to accelerate the expansion of the Chinese market, Microsoft finally chose to reach a partnership with the century Interconnection, the technology authorized to each other.

Last May, Microsoft's public cloud service launched a commercial preview in Shanghai. Since then, Microsoft has started to invite a small number of commercial customers.

Over the past 10, the number of customers participating in the Microsoft Azure free experience has reached more than 3,000, while more than 160 users are paying or are about to pay for the service. "This performance is far more than expected," said Zhi Jiqing, general Manager of Microsoft's Microsoft Azure Division. ”

And the reason why so quickly to obtain user recognition, Yan Qing thought there are several major factors, including: 1, the product pricing is more clear, 2, the product "grounding gas", close to user needs, 3, the use of flexible.

In particular, Yan Qing stressed the product "grounding gas." Microsoft, for example, has packaged broadband in cloud services to allow customers to stop concentrating on broadband. While most other cloud service providers offer services, broadband requires direct purchase from customers and operators.

"We've shielded these issues and let customers really focus on the core business scenario." "Yan Qing said to Sina technology.

"Ready"?

From the launch of commercial preview products, to today's formal business, Microsoft and the century interconnection spent 10 months. Why is it taking so long? Zhi Jiqing revealed that Microsoft and the century's unique technology licensing model for two companies have brought some problems that have not been thought of before.

Microsoft's public cloud services in China, the actual operating entity is the century interconnection of the wholly-owned subsidiary of Shanghai Blue Cloud Network Technology Co. Blue Cloud technology in front of the signing of customers, but the customer after the payment, how the first time according to the agreed to hit Microsoft and the Century Internet company account, which actually requires two of the company's financial system must be connected with the blue cloud technology.

And this involves a complex financial back-Office system access, in the past some time, Microsoft China and the century interconnection on these issues have been resolved one by one.

In addition, one of the most time-consuming things is "compliance". Because of the relatively new mode of technology licensing, in order to ensure Microsoft's public cloud services compliance, Century Internet Microsoft Cloud Division president Covenda to Sina Technology revealed that he led the team in compliance has done a lot of work.

"We hope that the Microsoft cloud services provided by the century interconnection will be consistent with the stability of Microsoft's global cloud services, and even exceed the overall metrics to serve Chinese customers," Covenda said. ”

Covenda said that after a period of operation, Microsoft and the century interconnection are ready for public business. He also revealed that, as business development exceeded expectations, the century interconnection in the ongoing development of server expansion plans, and Microsoft is also beginning to plan the next 3-5 years in China's Data center construction program.

Not afraid of competition

In the domestic public cloud market, Microsoft is the first foreign-owned public cloud manufacturer, and immediately after that, Amazon (343.41,-11.30,-3.19%), IBM (192.62,-2.42,-1.24%) also achieved the landing. At the same time, Aliyun, Baidu (152.12,-3.93,-2.52%) cloud and other manufacturers are also actively engaged in competition.

In the fierce competition for cloud services, Ms Ching said that Microsoft was the first international manufacturer to enter China and that competition with international manufacturers in the domestic market had taken the initiative. In his view, the domestic manufacturers of cloud services are not competitive.

Providing simple cloud services is not technically a difficult task, Zhi Jiqing says, but the threshold is high if cloud services are to be secure and highly stable.

Covenda also points out that Microsoft Azure is the best option if businesses have higher expectations for the stability, security, and performance of cloud services. According to him, in the century interconnection of existing paid customers, domestic enterprises accounted for a very large proportion, about 85%. (Loliang)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)