Jio-Microsoft deal to bring down IT costs

BENGALURU: Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio) has partnered with Microsoft to accelerate India’s digital transformation. Under the 10-year agreement, Jio will set up data centres across India and Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure will power these data centres to support Jio’s offerings.
Jio is setting up two data centres in Gujarat and Maharashtra that would be operational by 2020. “When we put these two pieces together, we have the capability to develop truly India-native solutions including speech recognition and natural language understanding for all major Indian languages and dialects,” said Mukesh Ambani, CMD of RIL. He said such a partnership “will be a showcase to the world to demonstrate tech-enabled value creation that is both exponential and inclusive.” As part of the partnership, small and medium businesses (SMBs) will have access to a range of cloud-based productivity, collaboration and business applications including Office 365 that would enable them to compete more effectively in the Indian marketplace.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the combination of Jio’s leading connectivity and digital solutions with Azure, Azure AI and Office 365 will bring powerful tools and platforms for compute, storage, productivity and more to millions of businesses in the country.
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5. ^{^} Satya Nadella (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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