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Nadella tells India: Microsoft data centres coming YOUR way

Will build three bit barns by 2015

Microsoft is schmoozing like a pro in the Indian market, with boss Satya Nadella announcing new data centres for Azure and Office365 in the country during a brief visit to Hyderabad.

Redmond says the local data centres will be running its cloud services in India by the end of 2015. As well as a response to concerns about data sovereignty, the company wants Indian users to get decent latency, and another bit-barn will also increase the geographic redundancy of the services.

“This means we will have Azure, which is our cloud infrastructure service as well as our Office 365 service, which brings together all of our productivity and collaboration capability to the Indian market, operated out of Indian data centres,” Nadella said.

He called the Indian cloud services market a “$US2 trillion market opportunity”.

According to The Economic Times, Nadella's 24-hour trip was kept more-or-less under wraps until he addressed Indian staff in a Webcast from the Microsoft India Development Center.

India Today reckons Microsoft's cloud revenues have doubled in India in the last year.

The data centres will be part of an expanded investment program in the country, according to The Economic Times, with an unnamed software professional telling the outlet Microsoft “plans to invest heavily in the workforce in areas of data and applied science, software engineering, training, learning and experimentation”.

There will also be money to incubate new projects.

Microsoft hasn't yet announced which cities will host the three data centres. ®

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