Microsoft announces Azure Cloud availability zones for central India

New Delhi, Dec 8, 2008 : Microsoft India announced Wednesday new Azure availability zones in its central India region.

These zones provide additional resilience and redundancy for customer workloads using its cloudAzure availability zones are physically and conceptually separate data centres with their own power source, network, cooling, and cooling.

If one is unable to perform, the others will provide resilience.According to the companys new Azure availability zones, Pune, ensures uptime up to 99.99 percent.This allows Microsoft customers in India to distribute their infrastructure and applications across the data centers, increasing security and accessibility "We are constantly upgrading Indias infrastructure to support customers building and operating applications and workloads," stated Rajiv Sodhi (Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft India).

He said that the new Azure availability zones in Central India will provide resilience for businesses as they accelerate digital transformation.Azure availability zones enable businesses to distribute their infrastructure and applications across dispersed information centres.

This provides additional protection and isolation from localised problems, such as mechanical or electrical issues, structure fires, flooding, or any other unforeseen event.Microsoft stated that it evaluates more then 30 viability and risk-based factors which are used to determine the configurations of availability zones "We believe that the launch of the new Azure Central India availability zones from Microsoft will further increase the resilience and availability of mission critical applications for us as well as our clients," stated Abhijit Mazumder (VP and Chief Information Officer at Tata Consultancy Services).

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