Security News > 2020 > September > SES signs multi-year agreement with Microsoft to be an Azure Orbital partner

As a cornerstone of the strategy, SES signed a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to be an Azure Orbital partner as well as to accelerate and expand the use of Microsoft Azure across its operations and jointly develop cloud-based video and data connectivity managed services.

As an Azure Orbital partner, SES will be co-locating and managing O3b mPOWER gateways with Microsoft Azure locations so its customers are always only "One-hop" away from their Azure cloud services anywhere in the world.

SES will be the medium earth orbit satellite partner for Microsoft Azure Orbital, a managed service that lets network operators communicate and control their satellite capacity, process data and scale their operations - all directly within Azure.

SES has designed a cloud-scale operational environment and will leverage Azure Orbital as a core platform to provide leading data analytics, geospatial tools, machine learning, and Azure AI services.

"Our launch of Azure Orbital and diverse collaboration with SES underscores our belief that multi-orbit satellite connectivity will be a key driver for the next phase of Azure's growth as it opens new markets and customer locations to cloud services," said William Chappell, Vice President, CTO Mission ENG at Microsoft.

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