Microsoft launches second batch of cloud accelerator projects

On December 20th, Microsoft announced today that it will launch the second phase of the "Cloud Accelerator" project, which will provide financial and technical support for the second batch of 17 entrepreneurial teams with IDG Capital and other venture capital companies.

It is understood that the Microsoft Cloud Accelerator project began in July 2012, and the project aims to encourage more entrepreneurs to use Microsoft cloud computing platform for technology development.

It is reported that Microsoft's Asia-Pacific Cloud Acceleration Phase I project lasts for 6 months (from July 2012 to the end of December 2012), involving 10 entrepreneurial teams, whose entrepreneurial direction involves information aggregation and game socialization. Network platform, mobile application development, smart phone application performance test platform, enterprise business collaboration, etc., the first batch of 10 entrepreneurial teams have graduated.

A total of 17 entrepreneurial teams were introduced in the second phase of the project, with a incubation period of 6 months (from January 2013 to June 2013). The entrepreneurial direction involved oil, internet of things, smart agriculture, tourism, Social platform data analysis, Internet advertising, social mobile office, music sharing platform, etc.

According to Microsoft's senior vice president Zhang Yaqin, when talking about Phoenix Technology, unlike the "incubator", the "Accelerator" project aims to provide entrepreneurial support services for entrepreneurial enterprises of a certain scale.

It is understood that the accelerator is an extension of Microsoft's BizSpark startup business. Therefore, every startup company will receive the Microsoft software provided by the BizSpark Plus program and use the Windows Azure cloud service. According to reports, in the first batch of entrepreneurial teams, the startup team used Windows Azure to achieve global deployment of the business in the fastest 3 hours, reducing operating costs by up to 70% and system performance by 15 times.

In terms of capital, after the first batch of IDG Capital was introduced as an exclusive partner, Microsoft also introduced a number of venture capital companies such as China Capital and Polaris Venture Capital to fund the startup team in the second phase of the project. stand by.

Xiong Xiaoge, founding partner of IDG Capital, said he is very optimistic about the cloud service market in the cloud. He said that because the large amount of infrastructure construction of the Chinese and Indian governments will stimulate investment in private IT cloud services, the cloud The development of computing will create 6.8 million jobs in China and India.

According to a recent IDC study, cloud computing-inspired IT innovations will generate $1.1 trillion in new revenues in 2015 and will create nearly 14 million new jobs worldwide. More than half of the jobs are in small and medium-sized businesses, while DiscreteManufacturing will create more than 1 million jobs each.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced in May this year that he will establish a cloud accelerator project in China, and before that, Microsoft launched cloud accelerators in Israel and the United States in March and April 2012, respectively. plan.