Microsoft Azure: All of Unilever's Workloads Are Moved to The Cloud, Mostly to Microsoft Azure

Unilever has finished moving to the cloud. The business has shifted workloads for its 400+ brands to the cloud, using Azure as its main cloud platform, in what it calls the "biggest and most difficult cloud migration in the consumer products market." With the aid of Accenture, Microsoft, and their joint venture Avanade, the relocation was finished in 18 months. Unilever will be able to leverage real-time data from the factory digital twins as part of the transfer, apply AI to research and development, enhance automation across its products, and lessen its carbon footprint by moving out of its data centers. 

The business has a sizable data center presence. Unilever previously disclosed that it has 30 data centers exclusively devoted to studying "people" and their activities, but the company has not disclosed the size of its entire footprint. The business and Google Cloud Platform have a history together. In 2020, the business declared it will use Google's cloud computing platform to fight deforestation. 

As part of its strategy to lay off around 10,000 people across the whole firm, Microsoft fired 150 workers who worked in Azure cloud sales early this year. After the Covid boom, the company's cloud business started to slow down, with growth falling to 31% from 50% the year before.