BGR.in: BankChain chooses Microsoft Azure as exclusive Cloud partner

BankChain, a platform for banks in India to explore, build, and implement blockchain solutions, announced to select Microsoft Azure platform as its exclusive Cloud partner. As part of this partnership, the 20 BankChain members that include State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank, DCB Bank, Kotak Bank, Bank of Baroda, Deutsche Bank and others, will use Microsoft Azure Blockchain as the underlying blockchain platform.

Silicon India: 14 Tech Startups Graduate From Microsoft Accelerator

Fourteen startups which were part of Microsoft Accelerator’s 10th cohort graduated at the Summer 2017 edition of ‘Think Next’. Think Next is Microsoft Accelerator’s flagship forum which brings together thought leaders in technology who are driving transformation via innovation.

Dqweek: IAMCP organizes 2nd part of Hands on Lab for Azure Fundamentals

International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners India West Chapter organized the Second Part of the Hands On Lab for Azure on 9th June 2017 at Microsoft Mumbai Office. About 20 Partners attended the event. The Lab was conducted by Rao Rajendra Singh, Global Black Belt for Cloud Infrastructure and Specialist in Business Continuity, Microsoft.

BGR.in: Microsoft well-positioned to push 30 million Indian SMEs to Cloud

India represents a billion-dollar Cloud computing market which is growing at 30 pc annually and Microsoft is well-positioned to support the country’s digital transformation. “India has about 30 million-odd small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and a vast majority of these still have to embrace Cloud. For us, this is a massive opportunity to transform their operations in a secure Cloud environment,” said, Rajiv Sodhi, Country Head, Cloud and Server Business, Microsoft India.