{"id":114890,"date":"2020-10-22T10:23:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacex-will-collaborate-with-microsoft-to-connect-starlink-broadband-with-azure-cloud-service"},"modified":"2020-10-22T10:23:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:23:52","slug":"spacex-will-collaborate-with-microsoft-to-connect-starlink-broadband-with-azure-cloud-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacex-will-collaborate-with-microsoft-to-connect-starlink-broadband-with-azure-cloud-service","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX will collaborate with Microsoft to connect Starlink broadband with Azure cloud service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-will-collaborate-with-microsoft-to-connect-starlink-broadband-with-azure-cloud-service.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft will be using Starlink broad band for their cloud services.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell announced today the company will collaborate with Microsoft to connect Starlink broadband internet satellites with Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud service. \u201cOur new partnership with SpaceX Starlink will provide high-speed, low-latency satellite broadband for the new Azure Modular Datacenter (MDC),\u201d Microsoft detailed in a press release. \u201cSpaceX is of course the name that people immediately think of when they think of innovation and the evolution that\u2019s occurring to bring space technology into the 21st century,\u201d said Tom Keane, Microsoft\u2019s corporate vice president of Azure Global.<\/p>\n<p>Starlink is SpaceX\u2019s plan to create an internet-beaming satellite constellation in low Earth orbit to provide service globally. Primarily focused in areas where internet connection is unreliable and nonexistent. To date, SpaceX has deployed a bit over 800 satellites to orbit out of the thousands that will comprise the Starlink network. \u2014\u201cThe collaboration that we\u2019re announcing today will allow us to work together to deliver new offerings for both the public and the private sector to deliver connectivity through Starlink for use on Azure,\u201d Shotwell said in a video announcement (shown below). \u201cWhere it makes sense, we will work with [Microsoft]: co-selling to our mutual customers, co-selling to new enterprise and future customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shotwell shared that over the last few months SpaceX and Microsoft have been testing the software and hardware needed to connect the Starlink satellites in orbit to the Azure cloud service. -\u201cSo, I think that\u2019s worked out really well,\u201d she said. The partnership will enable Microsoft to offer its cloud service in remote areas around the planet. \u201cWe can connect via satellite lengths any element on the Earth to another point on the Earth, which I think goes extremely well with the technologies you are trying to build out\u2026\u201d Shotwell told Keane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will be using Starlink broad band for their cloud services. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell announced today the company will collaborate with Microsoft to connect Starlink broadband internet satellites with Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud service. \u201cOur new partnership with SpaceX Starlink will provide high-speed, low-latency satellite broadband for the new Azure Modular Datacenter (MDC),\u201d Microsoft detailed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}