Microsoft pushes Azure platform, announces accelerator programme

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, who was in Mumbai for the company’s flagship CEO summit called Future Decoded, laid out a roadmap for it’s India operations. After Nadella took over as the CEO, the firm has been on a transformational trajectory to leverage digital technologies. So far, this has been restricted to large businesses which were capable to invest in cloud migration, AI and IoT.

Nadella identifies India as one of the most important markets and Microsoft estimates that over 8,000 SaaS start-ups drive the start-up ecosystem in India, which is expected to grow at the rate of 3X over the next ten years or less. Talking about how Microsoft structured its Azure cloud infrastructure to power the ‘tech intensity’ in India, Nadella said, “we will have a platform approach that will encompass some really important aspects and help businesses become technologically independent.” Nadella believes that the age of associations is over and it is time for companies to build their own independent technologies for which Microsoft’s Azure ecosystem will serve as a seabed.