After opening the biggest development centre in India 10 years ago, Microsoft is planning to open its data centre in India. With this move it will become the first MNC to setup the Data Centre in the country.
Cloud services are the fastest growing segment of Microsoft and according to Jim Dubois, corporate VP and CIO at Microsoft, "It is growing double, triple every month, not every year." According to Gartner, public cloud services market in India is expected to grow from $423 million (` 2,550 crore) in 2013 to $1.3 billion (` 7,800 crore) in 2017. Gartner expects India to be the fastest growing market for cloud adoption globally.
"We are considering a data centre in India. There are a lot of different companies that are looking at cloud right now, in anticipation that Microsoft will somehow figure out how to get that work," said Jim Dubois.
However, Microsoft’s plan may hit a roadblock since RBI guidelines prohibit storing any customer data outside of India, which limits cloud adoption by financial services company.
Despite this, none of the large cloud computing companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, has so far built a local data centre. Microsoft has 13 data centres globally to serve its cloud services while Amazon has eight and Google 12. In Asia, all three companies have data centres in Singapore, but none in Mainland China or India. "Over the last couple of years, the groundwork has been done in terms of Indian customers understanding nuances in public cloud. We are hearing about Amazon considering setting up a data centre in India but nothing has happened yet," said Naveen Mishra, research director at Gartner. 
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