Microsoft
Going the
cloud way
Chris Waldie, Cloud Business Manager, Microsoft
Gulf, discusses with The Shelf the impact of
Microsoft 365 and cloud in the region
How has enterprise adoption of Office 365 grown in
the Middle East during 2013?
We have seen strong customer adoption of Office
365 and other Microsoft Cloud Services across all
segments during 2013 which is really accelerating our
business transition to the Cloud. Globally we have
already seen a significant number of our enterprise
customers take advantage of the power of Microsoft
Cloud Services and a significant percentage of the
Fortune 500 have moved to Office 365 already. We’ve
seen that trend too in the Middle East as our enterprise
customers evaluate which workloads to move to the
Public Cloud and where they can take advantage of
Microsoft’s Private Cloud solutions. Additionally, Office
365 in Education has seen tremendous uptake with
over 1 Million students and teachers across the Gulf
currently using Office 365 for Education.
Chris Waldie, Cloud Business Manager, Microsoft Gulf
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