WPC 2016: The Three Keys to Building a Cloud for Good
July 14, 2016
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Nicole Henderson.
With cloud technology advancing at lightning speed, sometimes as an industry we fail to step back and look at everything that it helps us accomplish – not just at a technological level, but at a social level. Much like the three industrial revolutions before it, the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is expected to change life as we know it, Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said during his keynote on the final day of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC).
Smith says that this revolution will be defined by advances in the physical world (robotics, 3D printing, etc.), biological (testing, engineering, tech that will change human health), and the digital world (IoT, Blockchain, disruptive business models). “Each [revolution] is fundamentally fuelled by one or two enabling inventions,” Smith says. “They are all connected to and fuelled by the same thing – the cloud.”…
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