Walmart announced that it is\u00a0establishing a strategic partnership with Microsoft to “accelerate its digital transformation” in retail.<\/p>\n
“Through this partnership, Walmart has chosen Microsoft as its preferred and strategic cloud provider. tapping into the full range of Microsoft\u2019s cloud solutions.<\/p>\n
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0the two companies share a rivalry with Amazon and that it is “absolutely core” to the partnership.<\/p>\n The five-year agreement spans Microsoft’s full range of cloud solutions, including\u00a0Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 for enterprise-wide use.<\/p>\n Walmart said it is already using Microsoft services for critical applications and workloads, and is now embarking on a broad set of projects which include machine learning and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n The project will also include data platform solutions for a range of customer-facing services and internal business applications.<\/p>\n “As part of the partnership, Walmart and Microsoft engineers will collaborate on the assessment, development, and support phase of moving hundreds of existing applications to cloud-native architectures,” said Walmart.<\/p>\n Walmart is\u00a0establishing a strategic partnership with Microsoft to “accelerate its digital transformation” in retail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":232409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[723,123,11665],"class_list":["post-268669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-amazon","tag-microsoft","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268695,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268669\/revisions\/268695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Amazon Prime Day sales soar despite glitches<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"