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India can be global centre for cloud services: Ballmer

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Following the launch of Microsoft’s cloud services offerings that span SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, the company underlined the importance of India in its overall cloud services strategy. 

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Sharing results of a study by global management consultants Zinnov, Microsoft reiterated that India has the potential to emerge as the global competency centre for cloud services.

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The Zinnov study estimates the global cloud computing market to be over $70 billion by 2015. India, with its ecosystem of over 1300 independent software vendors (ISVs), 1.4 million developers and  more than 11000 system integrators (SIs and custom software development organizations), is ideally poised to address this growing opportunity.

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As a result, an additional 300,000 jobs related to cloud services are estimated to be created in India over the next five years.

Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation, said, “India will not only see a surge in consumption of cloud services, driving growth in domestic IT usage, but  companies all over the world will look up to India to support their transition to cloud computing. Microsoft is committed to helping businesses both in India and across the world maximize business value by leveraging the benefits that the cloud offers.”

Moreover, NIIT, CDC, Cognizant, IISc also announced their plans for Microsoft cloud services.

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NIIT, a global talent development corporation, will train over 100,000 students on Windows Azure over the next three years.

Cognizant, a SI, announced that it will create a vertically aligned set of industry frameworks and pre-built solution accelerators to enable implementation, migration and management of cloud-enabled application portfolios built on Azure for clients both in India and globally.

CDC Software, enterprise software and services applications provider, rolls-out of its flagship product ‘CDC Respond’ (a complaint and feedback management application for banking and government sectors) on Windows Azure.

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is building a large-scale application on Windows Azure to study the basic resource allocation constructs and strategies required for addressing enterprise needs on the cloud.

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