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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Two years after launching Azure Space, the company expands its satellite-powered connectivity services for cloud customers.
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is,” Douglas Adams wrote in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Microsoft and others think the same about the business opportunity that space offers.
Two years ago, Microsoft launched its Azure Space initiative with a two-pronged objective—offering satellite connectivity to enterprises as well as supporting digital transformation by extending Azure capabilities anywhere in the world with space infrastructure.
At the time, the Azure Space efforts seemed a little disjointed, but it was clear that Microsoft saw space as a distant—very distant—”intelligent edge”, a key phrase …
Once seen as a threat, global capability centres appear to be becoming a potential growth driver for the country’s IT giants.
The space tech startup’s next bet is to build a business where it can sell more than just hyperspectral imaging. The sky is the limit but the money is finite.
Elon Musk’s satellite internet promises a new way to get online. How will it coexist with the country's telecom giants?
