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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, guest host Kenny Mullican showcases the transformative capabilities of Microsoft Azure services in manufacturing.
Highlights
00:51 — Scalability is important for a manufacturing company. With manufacturing operations all over the world, Microsoft’s Azure’s adaptive cloud approach will help unify that.
01:22 — Hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and Internet of Things (IoT) are all working together in an orchestrated manner. Plus, cybersecurity is important. The company has Microsoft Defender for IoT.
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02:20 — For management, that’s where the Azure Arc and Azure IoT for Operations products come into play. They allow you to manage those devices from a central location instead of managing them individually or independently.
03:09 — In the past, software that ran locally on a server or in the cloud was often designed specifically for the type of server it ran on, making it difficult for those software applications to be deployed in different locations or moved from one cloud to another. Containerization addresses this issue. Microsoft has a relevant product, Azure Kubernetes Services.
04:33 — This is just a brief overview of various software packages integral to Microsoft Azure. They demonstrate how Microsoft is making a concerted effort to prepare manufacturing companies to handle today’s new workloads and integrate artificial intelligence, particularly around automation and automating the shop floor.
