Cloud Computing: Microsoft’s Nadella taps potential of industrial internet of things
April 22, 2016
Grazed from FinancialTimes. Author: Richard Waters.
When Satya Nadella takes to the stage in Germany on Sunday for his first appearance at Hannover Messe, one of the main events in the manufacturing industry’s annual calendar, it will signal a significant change for Microsoft. The chief executive of the technology company admits that in past years, “I wouldn’t have had much to talk about — whereas now I think I have something to say”.
He will not be pitching Microsoft’s traditional money-earners like Office, Windows and server software, or even its newer cloud computing services. Instead, says Mr Nadella: “We are now talking about the core.” This means the data being thrown off by cars, aeroplane engines, elevators and other industrial products, supplying the raw material to turn dumb manufactured goods into what he calls “systems of intelligence”…
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