GE Brings Industrial Tech to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform
July 12, 2016
Grazed from CIO-Today. Author: Jeff Cozza.
Microsoft and General Electric (GE) have announced a new partnership to bring the latter’s Predix platform to Microsoft’s Azure enterprise cloud service. The agreement combines GE’s software tools for collecting data from industrial machines with Microsoft’s computing platform for building, deploying, and managing applications and services in the cloud.
The move is only the first step in what is planned to be a broad strategic collaboration to eventually allow customers around the world to capture intelligence from industrial assets while taking advantage of Microsoft’s enterprise cloud applications, the companies said. The announcement was made today at Microsoft’s 2016 Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto…
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"Connecting industrial machines to the Internet through the cloud is a huge step toward simplifying business processes and reimagining how work gets done," Jeff Immelt (pictured right), CEO of GE said in a statement. "GE is helping its customers extract value from the vast quantities of data coming out of those machines and is building an ecosystem of industry-leading partners like Microsoft that will allow the Industrial Internet to thrive on a global scale."…
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