Azure founder Deepak Patil has been appointed to lead Dell Technologies’ cloud business to become senior vice president of Dell Technologies Cloud Platforms and Solutions Group.
Patil spent more than 15 years at Microsoft from 2000 to 2015 holding a variety of general manager roles for Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure, Windows Azure Engineering and Global Foundation Services. He was one of the founding members of Microsoft’s public cloud Azure platform, creating the first-ever application to run on Azure while leading the design and growth of Azure.
