A day after CEO Satya Nadella’s meeting with top business and government executives in India, Microsoft announced on Thursday several new local cloud partnerships in India.

Major IT infrastructure and hosting service providers such as Tata Communications, Netmagic, Sify and NxtGen have joined hands with Microsoft to offer hybrid cloud services to their customers. Existing users of IT infrastructure services from these providers will now be able to extend to Microsoft's Azure cloud service.

Gartner predicts that 50 per cent of the enterprises will use hybrid cloud by 2017.

Julie Woods-Moss, CEO of NextGen Business and CMO Tata Communications, said, “Our latest partnership with Microsoft builds on our existing relationship, where Microsoft Azure and Office365 interconnect to our leading IZO platform, the most comprehensive cloud enablement platform available. And today our continued commitment and partnership will enable customers to adopt their cloud of choice – confidently and securely.”

Ties up with RedHat Microsoft and RedHat have also announced a partnership to deploy RedHat software on Microsoft Azure. In addition, Dell announced a new hybrid cloud solution, featuring technology jointly developed with Microsoft, designed to break down the barriers customers experience on their path to cloud.

“As the first hyper scale public cloud provider to offer services from data centres in India, we are excited to see the rapid growth in usage driven by the digital innovation of our customers and partners. Customers, especially those in financial services and Government, are keen on the local cloud, to drive productivity and customer and citizen delight,” Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice-President, Cloud & Enterprise Group at Microsoft, said.

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