After Microsoft announced its newest data center area in Austria earlier this month and expanded its business scope in Brazil, Microsoft today announced plans to open a new area in Taiwan. This new region will expand its existing business in East Asia. The company already operates data centers in Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea. This new region will bring Microsoft's total global business volume to 66 cloud regions.
Similar to its recent expansion in Brazil, Microsoft has also promised to provide digital skills to more than 200,000 people in Taiwan by 2024, and it is also expanding its Taiwan Azure hardware systems and infrastructure engineering team. This is in addition to its investment in the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence research in Taiwan and the startup accelerator operating in Taiwan.
Jean-Phillippe Courtois, Executive Vice President and President of Microsoft’s Global Sales, Marketing and Operations said: “Our new investment in Taiwan reflects our belief in its strong hardware and software integration tradition.” With Taiwan’s hardware manufacturing and new data With expertise in the central area, we look forward to a greater transformation and promote the development of 5G, artificial intelligence and IoT functions across the smart cloud and smart edge. "The
new region will provide access to core Microsoft Azure services. Support for Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. This is almost the script for Microsoft's recent launch of all new regions. Like almost all of Microsoft's new data center regions, this region will also Provide multiple availability zones.
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