Here They Come! The Escalating Role of the Hyperscalers in Industrial Operations

Cloud platforms are rapidly establishing themselves as cornerstone technologies for digital transformation and industrial IoT.  Together with machine learning and artificial intelligence, modern cloud-based application development and runtime platforms are changing how industrial operations teams value and consume software.  Cloud solutions from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure are likewise extending their capabilities to the edge to access source data and fulfill their digital transformation value proposition.  Cloud-to-edge integration and edge computing both promise significant value in both data preprocessing and local execution of cloud-trained analytic models, plus customers accustomed to cloud-based business applications are extending their use to management of on-prem hardware and applications at the industrial IoT edge.  This session will feature representatives from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Services, and Microsoft Azure.