Walmart Partners With Microsoft

Walmart announced it has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft’s cloud and artificial intelligence technology, deepening a strategic partnership between two of Amazon’s major rivals. The mass merchant says that the agreement is designed to leverage the full range of Microsoft’s cloud solutions in order to make shopping quicker and easier for customers. The company plans to boost its online presence and progress to compete with Amazon’s rapidly growing retail ambitions. Through the partnership, Walmart and Microsoft engineers will work together to migrate a significant portion of Walmart.com and SamsClub.com to Microsoft’s Azure, Walmart said. This is done to compete with Amazon’s own version of cloud computing – Amazon Web Services.