Microsoft officials noted when Azure first came to China that only a Chinese company can set up and operate a cloud computing platform in that country. They added that Microsoft has no access to the 21Vianet’s data center hosting its Azure service unless its partner agrees to access and only to provide support and troubleshooting knowhow
Microsoft has more than 200 physical datacenters worldwide serving more than a billion cloud customers and 20 million companies worldwide, officials said. In April last year, officials said the company is on pace to build between 50 and 100 new data centers per year.
