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Monday 12 August 2019

Reliance Jio and Microsoft sign long-term cloud agreement

At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) yesterday, Reliance Jio announced that Jio and Microsoft have entered into a globally unique long-term alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of India.  This 10-year commitment combines the world-class capabilities of both companies to offer a detailed set of solutions comprising connectivity, computing, storage solutions, and other technology services and applications essential for Indian businesses and will span the broad Reliance Industries ecosystem including its existing and new businesses. As part of this alliance, Jio will build new custom solutions on Microsoft Azure for large enterprises who have already benefited from Microsoft's technology platforms. Companies will also have easy and affordable access to best-in-class technologies like data analytics, AI, cognitive services, blockchain, IoT and edge computing to accelerate India’s digital transformation and bring the latest technologies to millions of businesses across the country. All startups can register for their custom-designed package on Jio.com from 1st January, 2020. Jio will also invest and financially support those startups that have the potential to address India's big needs in agriculture, healthcare, education and skill development which will boost the creation of new livelihoods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBeF0Mt7LxI As part of this new agreement: Jio will provide its internal workforce with cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools available with Microsoft 365 and will ...