China partner for digital transformation
Alain Crozier, Senior Vice President of Microsoft Corporation, Chairman and CEO of Greater China
The era of digital transformation has arrived.
Cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and a series of digital technology breakthroughs and innovations are setting off a magnificent industrial transformation on a global scale. Just as the invention and popularization of steam engines, electricity and information technology triggered three industrial revolutions in human history in the past two hundred years, digital transformation not only brings more efficient and smarter productivity tools, but also brings benefits to all parts of the world and all walks of life. Enterprises and organizations in various industries have brought strong impetus to promote the transformation and upgrading of business models and the innovative development of products and services.
Seizing China’s Opportunities in Digital Transformation
The digital economy has become a key driver of global economic growth.
According to a recent survey conducted by market research firm IDC in the Asia-Pacific region, digital transformation is playing an increasingly important role in driving economic development—among the 15 economies in the Asia-Pacific region covered by the survey, digital products and technologies in 2017 The contribution rate to regional GDP is approximately 6%, and in 2021, three years later, this number will rapidly increase to approximately 60%.
China is undoubtedly one of the countries in the world that is most proactive in embracing digital transformation. From the "innovation-driven development" strategy to the "Made in China 2025" action plan, the "Internet +" action plan, the "Belt and Road" initiative, and the call for "mass entrepreneurship and innovation", a series of favorable policies with different focuses have effectively promoted The transformation and upgrading of enterprises in traditional industries, as well as the innovative development of emerging industries and entrepreneurial enterprises, have made China the best stage for digital transformation to flourish. Market forecasts show that by 2021, products and services related to digital transformation will contribute 1% to China’s GDP growth that year, worth approximately US$716 billion.
Rooted in China for more than 30 years, Microsoft has a deep understanding of China's unique market needs and endless development potential. By joining hands with outstanding Chinese partners like Huawei, Microsoft is bringing the world's leading technologies, platforms, and experiences to China, and in its role as a Chinese partner, it is helping more and more Chinese companies achieve transformation and innovation, and go global.
Microsoft Intelligent Cloud boosts digital transformation
Building an intelligent cloud platform from the world to China is Microsoft's core vision to promote digital transformation.
As the world's fastest-growing public cloud platform, Microsoft Azure now covers 52 regions around the world (including 2 new Chinese regions in March this year). This number exceeds that of any other public cloud service provider. Microsoft operates more than 200 regions around the world. For cloud services, 90% of the world's "Fortune 500" companies are using Microsoft cloud services. In China, Microsoft Azure, operated by 21Vianet, is the first international public cloud officially commercialized in China. It currently serves more than 110,000 enterprise users from different industries and has more than 1,400 cloud partners in China, with more than 10 Ten thousand active developers use Azure's development and operation services.
As China's digital transformation accelerates, Microsoft Intelligent Cloud continues to increase our investment in the Chinese market to help our partners and customers realize greater potential. In September last year, Microsoft officially launched the "Azure Intellectual Property Protection Plan" in China, with industry-leading unlimited compensation and 10,000 Microsoft patents to help Azure users reduce the risk of infringement, allowing enterprise users and developers to truly focus on technological innovation and Grow your business without worrying about potential intellectual property disputes.
Azure's genuine global scale deployment and the intellectual property protection umbrella we provide provide both soft and hard support and guarantee for more Chinese companies to develop overseas. Mobike, known as one of the representatives of China's "Four New Inventions", has used Azure's global platform services to rapidly expand its business to seven overseas markets, becoming a new business card representing China's innovation.
At the "Microsoft Technology and Ecosystem Conference" held in November last year, we announced that Azure's cloud computing scale in China will soon be expanded threefold to better meet the rapidly growing business needs of Chinese users and provide overseas companies with deployment and deployment in China. Operational cloud services provide smooth migration services. At the same time, we also announced that Microsoft will join hands with Huawei and other partners to bring the Azure Stack hybrid cloud solution to China.
Join hands with Huawei to create new opportunities
From China to the world, from Windows to the cloud era, Huawei has always been one of Microsoft's most important partners.
Facing the new opportunities brought by digital transformation, Microsoft and Huawei are also constantly exploring and deepening the breadth and breadth of their cooperation. Especially in the field of hybrid cloud, Microsoft and Huawei have successfully developed a new strategic cooperation model that combines hardware, software, and proliferation services and promotes each other.
In the server field, where Huawei has unique advantages, the two parties have customized the "Huawei-Microsoft Commercial Server Value-Added Plan" around Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016, newly developed for the cloud era, bringing more cost-effective enterprise-class services to Huawei's full range of server users. Data center server solutions.
At the "Huawei Connected Conference 2017" in September 2017, Mr. Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei Cloud BU and President of IT Product Line, and I formally signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation between Microsoft and Huawei Cloud Services, announcing that we have become strategic cloud partners. , carry out in-depth cooperation in the fields of public cloud and hybrid cloud: Microsoft provides Huawei Cloud with a variety of support including enterprise applications, development tools and products based on managed cloud, and Huawei Cloud launches more Microsoft enterprise-level products; the cooperation between the two parties is based on Microsoft technology cloud service solution provider and cloud platform management service provider ecosystem; at the same time, the two parties will also actively cooperate to jointly explore the broad prospects of the global market.
Huawei is an important partner of Microsoft's Azure Stack hybrid cloud solution. Azure Stack can bring the flexibility and fast-paced technological innovation of Azure public cloud to customers' local data centers, providing a hybrid cloud platform and experience consistent with Azure. It is especially suitable for edge and offline environments and needs to meet multiple regulatory requirements. Industry enterprises, as well as business scenarios that require local implementation of cloud application models. Azure Stack, co-created by Microsoft and Huawei, will be officially launched soon, bringing a new hybrid cloud experience to more users.
Facing the new era led by digital transformation, Microsoft, as a platform and productivity company, will carry out more extensive and in-depth comprehensive cooperation with the partner ecosystem represented by Huawei. I believe that our joint efforts can truly help each of our customers. As a customer, we gain the upper hand in change and achieve extraordinary results in innovation.
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