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We’re ensuring that Azure meets the needs of UBS. “So the capability of our platform to meet the needs of UBS has allowed us to chart and validate at scale our roadmap in security, compliance and accreditation. “As you might expect, a global bank headquartered in Switzerland has incredibly high standards in terms of what they expect from the Azure platform, not just in terms of capabilities, but in terms of security, compliance and accreditation,” Keane says UBS was the anchor for that move, says Tom Keane, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Azure Global. Microsoft launched two cloud datacenter regions in Switzerland in 2019, bringing Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to that nation. UBS is pursuing a hybrid cloud setup with a third of its applications hosted in on-premises private cloud solutions, a third in the public cloud and a third remaining on its mainframe infrastructure. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS began its work with Microsoft in 2017 and formed a strategic partnership with the company in 2018. The leading wealth manager’s move to cloud, including Microsoft Azure, is enabling UBS to respond faster to its clients’ needs and maintain security, a cornerstone of the financial industry, Dargan says.Ĭloud also has bolstered the company’s business flexibility – key most recently to managing through the pandemic – while also providing better outcomes for clients, increased agility for its engineers and the ability for UBS to reimagine how it builds applications, Dargan says. Nearly three years into its cloud adoption initiative, UBS is reaping an array of benefits while leveraging a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change how we operate,” according to Mike Dargan, group chief information officer at UBS.