Bangalore: Aditi Technologies today announced its acquisition of Cumulux, the 2010 Microsoft Cloud Partner of the Year. With this acquisition, Aditi is positioned to be a leader in cloud services and will drive the transformation of applications and workloads to the cloud.

Founded in 1994 by Pradeep Singh, Aditi is headquartered in Bangalore and represents the top Microsoft software development capability in the world. Leveraging a close partnership with Microsoft across product groups and sales offices, Aditi has emerged as a partner of choice for Microsoft clients seeking to engineer products or applications on emerging Microsoft platforms. Driven by a philosophy of hiring only 'top percentile technology talent' and fostering an open culture of innovation and fun, Aditi is one of India's best places to work. It leverages Microsoft as a customer, as a partner and as a platform. .

Cumulux is a cloud services provider, which focuses on helping customers build, operate and manage solutions on Platform as a Service (PaaS) Cloud platforms. It was co-founded in 2008 by Paddy Srinivasan and Ranjith Ramakrishnan.

Aditi will leverage its deep Microsoft alignment aggressively to roll out the cloud services proposition to the ISV and enterprise markets in US, UK and India. The team has already helped over 50 ISV and e-commerce customers adopt and deploy Azure through the Azure Acceleration Lab. Kicking off a global launch, Aditi and Cumulux will build out an Azure delta force of architects and MVPs to drive Azure adoption in close collaboration with Microsoft across US, UK and India. They plan to hiire and train 130+ cloud developers to create a cloud services platform to deliver IP led innovations for customers as they migrate their applications to the Cloud.

"Aditi and Cumulux complement each other. The synergy of global scale and strong Microsoft DNA make us one of the top Azure service providers in the market. Aditi gives us and our customers deep competency and scale in leveraging Azure to build large scale complex solutions," says Paddy Srinivasan, CEO, Cumulux, who has joined Aditi's cloud advisory board.