Online store offers cloud-based services
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MICROSOFT Corp and China Telecom said yesterday that an online store will open next month to offer enterprises cloud-based software and services.
The cooperation, first in its kind in the country, is expected to boost the cloud computing industry in China, part of the national Internet Plus strategy.
To be opened on July 15, the store will tap China Telecom’s strong information infrastructure and huge enterprise client base to help expand the cloud business, Ralph Haupter, Microsoft China’s chairman and CEO, said yesterday in Shanghai.
Cloud services, which store data storage through online cloud servers, help firms save on their IT cost and improve work efficiency, observers said.
Independent software vendors, or ISV, are allowed to distribute their services through the new store with the support of China Telecom’s network and Microsoft’s cloud technology.
Microsoft has over 50,000 enterprise users in China since it debuted cloud computing services, Windows Azure, a year ago. Other giants like Amazon and Alibaba are also expanding in the domestic cloud market, fueled by surging demand and government support.
In March Premier Li Keqiang unveiled the Internet Plus strategy to help mobile Internet, cloud computing and the Internet of Things to integrate with modern manufacturing to form a new engine for economic growth.
China’s public cloud computing revenue will surge 33.2 percent annually from 2015 to 2018, from US$717 million in 2014, US-based research firm IDC said.
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