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Microsoft tie-up with SpaceX to woo space customers
October 21, 2020
Microsoft Corp is collaborating together with tycoon entrepreneur Elon Musk-drove SpaceX and others as it grows its cloud computing platform into space, the product giant said on Tuesday.
The organization would permit Microsoft to interface its Azure distributed computing platform to SpaceX’s organization of low-Earth circling satellites, offering the product organization an edge in its fight with the opponent cloud platform from Jeff Bezos’ Amazon.com Inc.
Cloud organizations have seen a flood sought after this year as more organizations utilize their administrations for changing to telecommute because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Microsoft lately has tried its Azure cloud with satellites in space, and in September uncovered its Azure movement adventure, taking advantage of the interest for information-hefty space administrations.
The administrations incorporate “fiasco expectation and following, expanded perceivability of supply chains and financial movement, and numerous others,” the organization has said in US administrative fillings.
“Where it bodes well, we will work with you, co-offering to our shared clients, co-offering to new undertaking and future clients, and fundamentally bring the intensity of the Starlink availability to the Azure foundation,” SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell told.