MICROSOFT NEW SINGLE TRUST CENTER FOR ENTERPRISE CLOUD SERVICES

Microsoft today announced its new aggregated enterprise cloud services named Microsoft Trust Center to meet customers’ need for a single point of reference for cloud trust resources.

An announcement was posted on Microsoft’s official blog to declare the creation of a single Microsoft Trust Center in order to clarify and simplify the growing extremely delicate nature of the cloud. It is believed to help customers easier to explore more about the privacy and security policies of Microsoft’s hosted products.

The Microsoft Trust Center was developed with all information combined from Microsoft enterprise cloud services including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Office 365. They used to be the separate centers containing detached information.

“Increasingly, our customers deploy multiple Microsoft cloud services, and many expressed a desire for a single point of reference for cloud trust resources,” writes Doug Hauger, National Cloud Programs General Manager, on the Cyber Trust blog.

The Microsoft Trust Center targets at integrating all the different aspects of its enterprise cloud services to merge all the data about its cloud services into one single point of reference. Due to the confusion of customers about selecting among several references issued by a choice of information about all its enterprise cloud services, Microsoft created this new center for a single version of the truth.

While users worry most about security when using cloud, the names as Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have attempt to make enterprises believe in that their data would be much safer in the cloud than it is on-premise. The information in the new Trust Center is classified into four categories including Security, Privacy and Control, Compliance, and Transparency. Under each of these headings, Microsoft provides a variety of resources to help customers be clear how the firm secures and stores their data in the cloud. It will advise cloud purchasers on how Microsoft’s cloud services will observe international and national standards, privacy and data security policies as well as features and function.

The disclosure was revealed in the same week that one of Microsoft’s new embodiments of HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE), turned itself into a reseller of Microsoft’s Azure public cloud services. On Tuesday, HPE was announced to become a Microsoft Azure reseller partner, and a preferred cloud service providers when consumers of Microsoft need help, simultaneously. The new arrangement disclosed by HPE CEO Meg Whitman indicated that HPE can sell its own hardware and cloud computing software to businesses for the private, on-premise part of the private-public combination. In the meantime, Microsoft Azure computing service will offer the public cloud.

The new Microsoft Trust Center is believed to “give everyone a single view into the commitments that we put at the heart of our trusted cloud: security of operations, data protection and privacy, compliance with local requirements and transparency in how we do business.”