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Microsoft India sees good demand for cloud-based IT solutions from SMBs in India

Updated: Apr 19, 2017 06:52:43am
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Microsoft India sees good demand for cloud-based IT solutions from SMBs in India

Coimbatore, Apr 19 (KNN) Microsoft India is seeing good demand for cloud-based IT solutions from Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) in the country following migration of large number of manufacturing sector to the cloud solutions from the traditional IT infrastructure models.

Manish Sharma, Lead, SMB Business, Microsoft India, told media-persons here that the reason for the demand was the migration of large number of manufacturing sector to the cloud solutions from the traditional IT infrastructure models.

The company was adding 10,000 new customers every year in SMB space and not taken into account small and micro sector and as against the double digit growth of SMBs, the company was witnessing 30 per cent growth every year, he said.

The western region was contributing to the growth, closely followed by Southern Region, he said. Sharma, here to showcase Microsoft’s cloud-based technologies to SMBs in the city, said that the IT spend by SMBs is projected to touch 18 billion dollars a year in 2018.

Out of the nearly 51 million SMBs in the country, about 10 million are already connected either through regular internet or smartphones, he said.

Microsoft is offering cloud technologies for Rs 100 per user per month with the maximum charges not exceeding Rs 1,250 per user per month for Office 365 solutions, said Prashanth Subramanian, executive director, Quadra Systems, a gold competency partner of Microsoft.

The charges for server-based solutions would however be higher.

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