Microsoft Chairman hails India's digitisation journey, cloud adoption

Digitisation initiatives in India and the work with digital public goods have been extraordinary, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said on Tuesday, as he highlighted cloud and artificial intelligence among imperatives driving technology-based economic growth in India.

By 2025, most applications will be built on cloud-native infrastructure, and nearly 90 per cent of digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, he said during a keynote address at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit here.

Sharing his vision for a tech-enabled India, he highlighted how the cloud will be foundational to scaling India's digital journey and how Microsoft is innovating across the tech stack to support the country's ecosystem of developers, startups and companies across every industry.

"Cloud is 70-80 per cent energy efficient on workload. You hedge against demand cycle, you consume it only when you need it. We are investing in 60-plus regions, 200-plus .