Microsoft cloud solutions for startups

Managing Director of Microsoft Seed Fund in Russia Sergei Eremin opened the conference at the Kazan IT-park. He welcomed participants of the event and told that he had dealt with programs aimed at supporting startups since 2006. He also told about company’s interaction with first-time IT entrepreneurs.

Sergei Eremin presented Microsoft solutions for startups that include seed financing, grants in the form of cloud hosting resources, licensed software, consulting, promotion services, free software for new projects, testing and Internet posting.

The conference “Cloud solutions for startups” will last till evening. During the day the expert for cloud technologies Windows Azure, Microsoft Aleksei Bokov will tell about ways to get free Windows Azure, the expert for strategic technologies Vladimir Yunev will present technological solutions of cloud platform, and Manager of the project SportFort Marat Gallyamov will share the history of his success.

The round table on issues of receiving grants and other Microsoft support programs will be held at the end of the meeting.