Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn combining efforts, Jio and Microsoft aim to enhance the\nadoption of leading technologies like data analytics, AI, cognitive services,\nblockchain, Internet of Things, and edge computing among small and medium\nenterprises to make them ready to compete and grow, while helping accelerate\ntechnology-led GDP growth in India and driving adoption of next-gen technology\nsolutions at scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of this new agreement: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Jio will provide its\ninternal workforce with cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools\navailable with Microsoft 365 and will migrate its non-network applications to\nthe Microsoft Azure cloud platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jio\u2019s connectivity\ninfrastructure that aims to connect everyone, everything, everywhere will\npromote the adoption of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform within its growing\necosystem of startups, as part of Jio\u2019s cloud\u2013first strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jio will set up\ndatacenters in locations across India, consisting of next-generation compute, storage\nand networking capabilities, and Microsoft will deploy its Azure platform in\nthese datacenters to support Jio\u2019s offerings. The initial two datacenters,\nwhich can house IT equipment consuming up to 7.5 MW of power, are being set up\nin the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. These are targeted to be fully\noperational in calendar year 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jio will leverage\nthe Microsoft Azure cloud platform to develop innovative cloud solutions\nfocused on the needs of Indian businesses. Through these Jio-developed solutions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a.<\/strong> Indian startups will have access to\nefficient and affordable cloud infrastructure and platform services, enabling\nthem to develop innovative products and services faster and more\ncost-effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n b.<\/strong> Small and medium businesses in India\nwill have access to a range of cloud-based productivity, collaboration and\nbusiness applications including Office 365, enabling them to compete more\neffectively in the Indian marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n c.<\/strong> Large companies will be able to\naccelerate their own digital transformations by leveraging new Jio solutions\nthat can work with Microsoft offerings already in use today within many large\nenterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n d.<\/strong> The partner ecosystem in India will\nhave the opportunity to leverage Jio\u2019s new offerings to serve the unique needs\nof their customers and rapidly grow their businesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jio will be executing\non its vision of integrated speech and computer vision solutions for Indian\ncustomers by working together with Microsoft to develop solutions that support\nmajor Indian languages and dialects, which will promote the adoption of\ntechnology across all cross-sections of Indian society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJio is delighted to partner with Microsoft in our efforts\nto further deepen the use of technology on scale to all Indians,\u201d said Mukesh\nAmbani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries. \u201cThis is a\nunique and first\u2013of\u2013its\u2013kind partnership that brings the capabilities of two\nlarge companies focused on creating significant value to Indian enterprises \u2014\nsmall and large. By working together to develop innovative and affordable\ncloud-enabled digital solutions built around Jio\u2019s world-class digital\ninfrastructure and Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud platform, we will accelerate the\ndigitization of the Indian economy and make Indian businesses globally competitive.\nThis will be a showcase to the world to demonstrate tech-enabled value creation\nthat is both exponential and inclusive.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have an incredible opportunity to apply advances in\ntechnology to help organizations across India innovate and grow,\u201d said Satya\nNadella, CEO of Microsoft. \u201cThe combination of Jio\u2019s leading connectivity and\ndigital solutions with Azure, Azure AI and Office 365 will bring powerful tools\nand platforms for compute, storage, productivity and more to millions of\nbusinesses in the country.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
About Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (\u2018Jio\u2019), a subsidiary of\nReliance Industries Limited (\u201cRIL\u201d), has built a world-class all-IP data strong\nfuture proof network with the latest 4G LTE technology. It is the only network\nconceived and born as a Mobile Video Network from the ground up and supporting\nVoice over LTE technology. It is future ready and can be easily upgraded to\nsupport even more data, as technologies advance on to 5G, 6G and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jio will bring transformational changes in the Indian\ndigital services space to enable the vision of Digital India for 1.2 billion\nIndians and propel India into global leadership in digital economy. It has\ncreated an eco-system comprising network, devices, applications and content,\nservice experience and affordable tariffs for everyone to live the Jio Digital\nLife. As part of its customer offers, Jio has revolutionised the Indian telecom\nlandscape by making voice calls for Jio customers absolutely free, across\nIndia, to any network, and always. Jio makes India the highest quality, most\naffordable data market in the world so that every Indian can do Datagiri. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
About Microsoft: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Microsoft (Nasdaq \u201cMSFT\u201d @microsoft) enables digital\ntransformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its\nmission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to\nachieve more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (Jio), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited, and Microsoft Corp. are embarking on a unique, comprehensive, long-term strategic relationship aimed at accelerating the digital transformation of the Indian economy and society. This 10-year commitment combines the world-class capabilities of both companies to offer a detailed set of solutions comprising connectivity, computing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[442,197],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-jio","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4740,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions\/4740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}