Microsoft sees India as hardware manufacturing hub |
As a number world`s technology majors are moving their supply chains out of China, there is a big opportunity for India to become a hardware manufacturing location. Microsoft president Brad Smith has urged India and the U.S. to join the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace that now has 75 countries on board to deal with new cybersecurity threats facing the world. He also emphasized the need to train more professionals to cope with these threats. Terming the changing relationship between China and the U.S. and some other countries as one of the most significant geopolitical developments of this decade, Smith said the change was certainly impacting the technology sector. Speaking at a session at the Raisina Dialogue, Smith said, “We are seeing not a decoupling, but some drifting apart. We are definitely seeing an impact in terms of hardware supply chains, with many companies moving parts to, (or) in some instances, perhaps, almost all, or all of their hardware manufacturing out of China to other countries. That has been underway for the last 18 months, even though it is not discussed as much by companies publicly as it might,”. He added, “I do think this is something that creates potential new opportunities from a longer-term perspective for, say, India, as well as others to make themselves more of a location for hardware manufacturing,”.Terming the recent spate of cyberattacks a wake-up call for tech companies as well as governments, Smith said the world was more secure when networks ran in the cloud as opposed to servers. Many cybersecurity problems, he said, also emerged from the lack of IT administrators` compliance with best practices.
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