Microsoft Promises To Contribute $1 billion Worth Cloud Services

Microsoft wants to work for public welfare, so it has decided to donate cloud services to non-profit institutes all across the world.

For the betterment of public, Microsoft Corporation Inc. has planned to donate cloud services worth $1 billion to non-profit organization and researchers over a period of three years. In this time span, the services will be donated to over 70,000 non-profits and about 900 research universities. This pledge has been made on behalf of Microsoft Philanthropies, a charity program that was launched by the company previous month.

This is the first major contribution that will be made by the philanthropic project. Satya Nadella, CEO at MSFT, mentioned the initiative on Tuesday after he attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The idea behind this initiative is to make cloud services more accessible to the masses at low costs or for free.

The cloud services allow users to access a number of applications in a centralized platform through which, an individual or companies can store and backup huge amount of data. Companies can avoid excessive costs, such as infrastructure and hardware, since they are able to save all the data online.

At the world forum, world leaders kept their focus on making the cloud technology available to the less fortunate or people who are not included as part of the wealthy community. Making data storage, analytics, insights, intelligence would bridge the gap between those who are unable to afford such a luxury and education.

The multinational tech organization has been playing its part right through Microsoft Azura, as it allows people to avail computing power and other services. A chunk of this donation will go in making cloud computing accessible worldwide free of cost (Microsoft Azura 365 Application). The rest of the amount will go into the expansion of Auzra in various research universities, governmental organizational and non-profit organizations.

According to the plans of the company, an initial program already provides cloud services to about 600 research universities whose services are plans to expand by 50%. Additionally, it plans to make the power accessible to more underdeveloped nations all across the globe. The latest program is aiming to make about 20 investments in about 15 countries worldwide, as stated by the Chief Legal Officer and President of Microsoft.

CEO of the tech giant is expected to speak at the World Economic Forum today in which he will discuss the donation of the three-part program. By the end of 2016, the company is planning to donate cloud services worth $350 million. This is an interesting initiative through which, the company will be able to attract a number of users towards these free services.