In Mumbai, Microsoft boss Nadella trumpets cloud tie-up with India’s Reliance

MUMBAI: Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella touted the new India cloud partnership with Reliance IndustriesNSE -0.69 % as he shared centre-stage with its chairman Mukesh Ambani at an event in India’s financial capital on Monday.

Microsoft struck a 10-year deal with Reliance in 2019, committing to power the oil-to-telecoms conglomerate’s data centres with its Azure cloud.

“We’ve been working with Reliance across the entire stack – everything from what they are going to be doing with Azure in their own data centres and how they will extend it,” said India-born Nadella at the event in Mumbai, where he began the first leg of his India tour.

“It’s sort of a great example of a business leader and a company which is in very diverse sectors to take a platform approach, to use technology to create more technology.”