Microsoft just rubbed Google’s nose in a big cloud computing customer win: Land O’ Lakes

Grazed from Reuters. Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft on Monday posted a surprising case study about a $13 billion company: Land O’ Lakes. Land O’ Lakes owns several businesses, among them the agriculture tech company WinField. On Monday, Land O’ Lakes CIO Mike Macrie described in a blog post published by Microsoft how WinFien will be moving its "R7” app to Microsoft Azure.

"This app takes a vast array of agronomic research, weather information and satellite data and puts it together on a mobile device for farmers – and the WinField specialists who help them – so they can make important planting decisions and react to real-time changes in the field, every day," Macrie says…

Macrie says that the mobile device will be a Surface tablet, which is also being issued to Land O’ Lakes employees. And while he’s at it, he’s giving everyone Office 365. But the surprising part is that Land O’ Lakes is one of Google cloud’s marquee enterprise customers. In March, Land O’ Lakes announced that it was putting another part of that very same application into Google’s cloud, gaining access to Google’s weather data, map data and such as well…

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