Microsoft beefs up Azure for Internet of Things
Microsoft Azure | March 19, 2015
At last week’s Convergence 2015 conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared the company’s vision for its role in the Internet of Things, which features an Azure IoT Suite that combine business intelligence capabilities (Power BI) using real-time data (Azure Stream Analytics) with Azure Machine Learning capabilities.Nadella depicted a future world that will have "26 billion general purpose compute devices" by 2019 that would produce "something like 44 zettabytes of data that's going to be in the cloud."