Summary: Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company headquartered in Denmark, selected Microsoft Azure for cloud under a ‘substantial’ multi-year agreement. Maersk will use Azure’s compute and storage services as well as IoT services like tracking to lower supply chain management costs and improve service. It moved some data centre capacity to Azure last year but will keep some apps and data running in-house. Maersk’s energy business had previously used AWS, but that unit is being spun out as Maersk integrates its transport and logistics units. Those units are a $32b business with over 70k employees worldwide. Amazon’s push into freight delivery could have made Maersk reluctant to sign up with a potential competitor. All in all, a big win for Microsoft and another snapshot of enterprise uptake.
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