Software King of the World Microsoft has more than 60 percent of its commercial business on the cloud.
Partner boss Joe Macri told the assembled throngs at the outfit’s London Partner Executive Summit that Vole was pushing cloud-first business models with some success.
Macri said that over half of Microsoft’s UK partners have now made cloud solutions the primary focus of their businesses.
“We are going through huge change, and when we look at our certifications, more than 55 percent of our partners are now leading with cloud-based solutions. This transformation has resulted in a very healthy business for Microsoft in the UK”, he said.
Microsoft’s EMEA president Michel van der Bel said that that the main difference between Vole and its cloud competitors that you could trust Microsoft. While other providers of having ulterior motives for wanting customers to choose their cloud offerings.
“We have some competitors that have, let’s say, a business model that is based on ‘I want to have as much of your data [as possible], so I can sell back to you through advertising’.
“We are not in that position. Our customers’ data is their data and theirs alone. We have no interest in their data whatsoever, and we are clear about that.”
Van der Bel said Microsoft had recently announced new datacentre regions in Norway, Switzerland, South Africa and the UAE.
“If you go back to how Bill started the company, his vision was a PC on every desk in every home. That worked, and now we have built 50 datacentre regions around the world. We are continuing to build our data footprint, and now we are pretty much building the computer of the world. With that, customers are now betting on us and how they move their data to the cloud.”
