Walmart Partners With Microsoft on Cloud Solution to Speed Digital Transition
Walmart entered a strategic partnership with Microsoft for cloud solutions to speed its digital transformation, the retailer said Tuesday. The partnership will leverage machine learning, artificial intelligence and data platform solutions, said Walmart CEO Doug McMillon. Walmart already is using…
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Microsoft services for critical applications and workloads and will add cloud solutions for external customer-facing services and internal business applications, it said. The scalable and secure technology will extend across Walmart’s brands and global businesses, allow it to manage workloads in an “elastic” environment, provide access to new toolsets for faster innovation and help manage costs through a cloud-based environment, Walmart said. It will move a significant portion of walmart.com and samsclub.com to Microsoft’s Azure platform, including cloud-powered check-out, enabling Walmart “to grow with rising customer demand,” it said.