We want our services to run smoothly, the company says

May 12, 2015 11:06 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft is becoming more of a devices and services firm that’s living in a mobile first, cloud first world, so the company is doing the best it can to make sure that all its online platforms are running as smoothly as possible.

Today, the Redmond-based tech giant has announced that it invested in three new subsea fiber projects, namely Aqua Comms, Hibernia, and New Cross Pacific Cable Network, in an effort to speed up data transfers to and from Asia-Pacific and Europe.

In a blog post on the Azure blog, the company reveals that the deals with Hibernia and Aqua Comms are supposed to connect Microsoft’s datacenter infrastructure from North America to Ireland and on to the United Kingdom, with higher speeds and lower latency expected to be offered not only to those living in Europe but to customers from all over the world.

Faster connection between NA and Asia

At the same time, the company has announced that it joined a consortium of big companies, including China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, and KT Corporation, while TE SubCom is the cable supplier, again with the purpose of speeding up connections between data centers in North America and Asia.

“The New Cross Pacific (NCP) Cable Network will provide faster data connections for customers, aid Microsoft in competing on cloud costs, all while creating jobs and spurring local economies. The goal of our expansions and investments in subsea cables is so our customers have the greatest access to scale and highly available data, anywhere,” David Crowley, Managing Director, Network Enablement, explains.

Higher data connections are mandatory for Microsoft as part of its efforts to make Azure and Office 365 cloud solutions faster and smoother for customers across the word, so Microsoft seems to be playing the winning card here.

Of course, more services could benefit from all these new deals, especially because cloud power is being implemented in additional solutions, so Redmond could be aiming at the long term with these investments.