Li Ming, Azure China strategy lead and director of product marketing at Microsoft, said the company is dedicated to using its digital technologies to help both multinationals come to China and Chinese companies to go global, driving their digital transformation strategies.

微软Azure中国战略负责人兼产品营销总监李明表示，该公司致力于利用其数字技术帮助跨国公司来到中国，帮助中国公司走向全球，推动其数字化转型战略。

Microsoft said its new hybrid cloud capabilities are based in part on existing Azure cloud services such as Azure Arc－an important component of Microsoft's hybrid cloud strategy.

微软表示，其新的混合云功能部分基于现有的Azure云服务，如Azure Arc，这是微软混合云战略的重要组成部分。

Chris Tao, Azure business group leader at Microsoft China, said the hybrid cloud market in China has maintained a vigorous and rapid development trajectory.

微软中国Azure业务小组负责人Chris Tao表示，中国的混合云市场一直保持着蓬勃快速的发展轨迹。

Charlie Dai, principal analyst at Forrester, a business consultancy, said as the first global vendor to commercialize its public cloud operations in China, Microsoft Azure has gained the trust of enterprises and sustained local business expansion through progressive localization of its services, ecosystem synergy between enterprise collaboration tools, digital operation platforms and Azure solutions.

商业咨询公司Forrester的首席分析师Charlie Dai表示，作为第一家在中国将其公共云业务商业化的全球供应商，Microsoft Azure通过服务的逐步本地化、企业协作工具之间的生态系统协同、，数字运营平台和Azure解决方案。

The strategic local partnerships Microsoft Azure has built with its leading position in the global public cloud market also help drive its rapid growth in China, Dai added.

戴补充道，微软Azure凭借其在全球公共云市场的领先地位建立的本地战略合作伙伴关系也有助于推动其在中国的快速增长。

The company, for instance, is bringing the cloud service Azure Digital Twins to China in hopes of offering local customers the ability to create digital twins of physical objects in the cloud to boost efficiency.

例如，该公司正在将云服务Azure Digital Twins带到中国，希望为当地客户提供在云中创建物理对象数字双胞胎的能力，以提高效率。

Charlie Dai, principal analyst at Forrester, a business strategy and economic consultancy, said as the first global vendor to commercialize its public cloud operations in China, Microsoft Azure has gained the trust of enterprises and sustained local business expansion through progressive localization of its services, ecosystem synergy between enterprise collaboration tools, digital operation platforms and the Azure solution.

商业战略和经济咨询公司Forrester的首席分析师Charlie Dai表示，作为第一家在中国将其公共云业务商业化的全球供应商，Microsoft Azure通过服务的逐步本地化、企业协作工具之间的生态系统协同、，数字运营平台和Azure解决方案。

The strategic local partnerships Microsoft Azure has built with its leading position in the global public cloud market also drove its rapid growth in China, Dai added.

戴补充道，微软Azure凭借其在全球公共云市场的领先地位建立的本地战略合作伙伴关系也推动了其在中国的快速增长。

Growing over 50 percent for a fifth consecutive quarter, Microsoft Azure was the second largest cloud service provider, second only to Amazon Web Services.

微软Azure连续第五个季度增长超过50%，是第二大云服务提供商，仅次于亚马逊网络服务。

At the fourth China International Import Expo being held offline in Shanghai on Nov 5-10, Microsoft announced its cooperation with SGS China to launch S-Carbon, the world's first-ever dual-standard intelligent cloud carbon management platform, based on Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure.

11月5日至10日，在上海举行的第四届中国国际进口博览会上，微软宣布与SGS中国合作，推出基于微软云计算平台Azure的全球首个双标准智能云碳管理平台S-Carbon。

"Over the past 18 months, Veeam enjoyed its most prolific product launch period, bringing to market more than 20 new offerings and updates for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, AWS and Microsoft Office 365," said Danny Allan, chief technology officer and senior vice president of product strategy at Veeam.

The product is based on Microsoft Azure, the company's cloud service, and is able to gather and analyze a huge amount of IoT, or internet of things, data to further offer management solutions to companies.

Earlier data showed that Microsoft has served more than 120,000 enterprise clients with its Azure cloud services in China.

STUNG TRENG - In early April in Sesan district of Stung Treng province, Cambodia, the reservoir of Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station was sparkling with water merging with the azure sky.

"Digital transformation here in China is at a pace that is leading the world, which provides important opportunities," said Mark Russinovich, chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, the firm's cloud business, in an interview with China Daily.

Earlier this year, Microsoft Azure announced it had tripled its cloud capacity and added two more cloud regions in the Chinese market.

In April, it has also commercialized its Azure Stack hybrid cloud solutions in the nation, as a way to meet growing demand for local data centers with more flexible computing capabilities.

com Inc and local companies including Alibaba Group, Russinovich noted that Microsoft Azure is "competitive".

ZPMC, for instance, is leveraging technologies, including the internet of things and machine learning, from Microsoft Azure to digitalize its port services and operations, which have greatly reduced its downtime and costs.

Microsoft Azure cloud service saw a 76 percent spike in revenues during the first fiscal quarter, ended in September.

In the latest quarterly reports, Microsoft’s cloud computing business Azure marked revenue growth of 76 percent, down from 89 percent in the previous quarter.

Microsoft commercialized its Azure Stack hybrid cloud solutions in China in April, provided in collaboration with hardware makers such as Dell EMC.

"In Japan, Microsoft Azure has accelerated the speed of our website and reduced operating costs by more than 30 percent," he said.

Amazon's Web Services, Microsoft's Azure, Alphabet's Google Cloud platforms and Alibaba are together forecast to make up about 89 percent of the global cloud market share in 2019, Heather Bellini, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, wrote in a research note.

The two sides are exploring ways of using Microsoft's cloud platform Azure to help Xiaomi's overseas users store data.

They use Microsoft's Azure intelligent cloud platform, IoT and predictive analytics to understand where their bikes are, and where they are needed.

"We partner with Vodafone Group plc, a UK telecom firm, in Singapore to build the platform and we adopt Microsoft's Azure cloud services.

This year's fashion week will integrate Hainan's natural elements with the theme "Azure coast".

Guizar said that the company's Chinese client prefers their "Azul" (azure or blue) blend, which offers soft, citrus flavors.

And in the future, every software is expected to have its own copilot, and these copilots can interact with each other, realize intercommunication and complete works in an automatic, compatible and intelligent way," said Li Mian, marketing director for Data & AI projects at Microsoft Azure.

In this next phase of the partnership, developers and organizations across industries will have access to the best AI infrastructure, models, and toolchain with Azure to build and run their applications, said Nadella.

In 2019, Microsoft announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI to jointly develop new technologies for the Azure platform and further extend OpenAI's large-scale AI capabilities.

In 2021, Microsoft launched the Azure OpenAI Service, an offering designed to give enterprises access to OpenAI's AI systems.

Its Azure cloud platform will continue to be OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider.

It can track the historical information and implementation of the interconnected environment, support multisystem data input, and rely on Azure's other powerful advanced data services for analysis and management.

It is based on Microsoft Azure product offerings, including Azure IoT Hub, Azure Digital Twins and this solution is empowering every organization worldwide to accelerate digital transformation.

Justin Zhao, deputy general manager of Microsoft China, said the company's Azure Digital Twins is a first-party digital twin service.

The Azure product, Zhao said, not only has a single digital twin technology service capability but also provides open platform services.

The report noted that AWS and Microsoft Azure have both announced their intention to expand their presence in China through existing partnerships with local companies.

Alibaba Cloud now trails only Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure, which accounted for 40.8 percent and 19.7 percent of the IaaS market worldwide, respectively, in 2020.

"Charlie Dai, a principal analyst at Forrester, a business strategy and economic consultancy, said Microsoft was the first global vendor to commercialize its public cloud operations in China, and it has sustained its local expansion by continuing its ecosystem synergy between enterprise collaboration tools, digital operations platforms, and the Azure cloud solution.

The investors are Northern Light Venture Capital and NetEase Inc. Li said the AI commercialization solutions jointly launched by Microsoft and Xiaoice will use Microsoft's Azure as a cloud computing operations platform to serve the Chinese and global markets.

AWS, Huawei Cloud, Azure, Kingsoft Cloud and JD Cloud were also on the list.