{"id":4861,"date":"2017-04-20T17:21:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T17:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/microsoft-launches-new-iot-services-for-the-enterprise.html"},"modified":"2017-04-20T17:21:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T17:21:46","slug":"microsoft-launches-new-iot-services-for-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/microsoft-launches-new-iot-services-for-the-enterprise.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches new IoT services for the enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Microsoft is launching IoT Central<\/a> today, a new Internet of Things (IoT) service that gives enterprises a fully managed solution for setting up their IoT deployments without\u00a0needing the in-house expertise necessary for deploying a cloud-based IoT solution from scratch. It\u2019s basically IoT-as-a-Service.<\/p>\n

In addition, the company is also\u00a0bringing its Azure Stream Analytics to edge devices, making it easier to provision new IoT devices, and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0launching a completely new analytics services for time series data.<\/p>\n

The two most important\u00a0new services here are probably the launch of IoT Central service and the new Azure Time Series Insights<\/a> tool. As Microsoft\u2019s Director of IoT Sam George told me, the idea here is to offer a number of new offerings that are complementary to the company\u2019s existing Azure IoT Suite. While IoT gives many companies an opportunity\u00a0to differentiate their services from competitors,\u00a0it still takes a specialized set of skills to enable this. \u201cWhile we find that IoT is a big differentiator, one of the things we\u2019re finding in the broader market is that there is still a broad set of skill sets needed to implement IoT solutions,\u201d George said.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>IoT Central, then, is meant to simplify the deployment of these IoT solutions. \u201cCustomers here don\u2019t need any cloud solutions expertise,\u201d said George. Instead. IoT Central is fully managed by Microsoft and\u00a0provides a fully-featured solution that abstracts all of the underlying infrastructures away and lets business focus on analyzing their data. It comes with pre-configured solutions for many typical use cases. What users lose, though, is the flexibility to choose their own storage service or analytics engines, for example.<\/p>\n

Azure Time Series Insights, which is now available in preview, is actually a new database offering from Microsoft that is based on the same technology the company itself uses to log every single event on Azure (and we\u2019re talking billions of events a day here). While there are plenty of exceptions, IoT data tends to arrive\u00a0in a time-based fashion and Time Series Insights is purpose-built to store and interactively visualize and analyze this type of\u00a0data to find anomalies.\u00a0For developers, the service also offers an API to integrate it into existing workflows.<\/p>\n

Microsoft also announced that its Azure Stream Analytics service can now run on edge devices. This basically means that those devices will be able to run real-time analytics locally without\u00a0having to send all of their data to Azure first.\u00a0While the cloud solution is meant to parse data from millions of devices, a single device doesn\u2019t actually produce all that much data and even a very basic Raspberry Pi\u00a0has enough power to run this service locally. Thanks to this, these devices can function even when they don\u2019t have a reliable connection to the Internet.<\/p>\n

As George told me, Microsoft believes that as IoT becomes a more mature technology, more and more of the intelligence will get pushed out to the edge \u2014 and stream analytics marks Microsoft\u2019s first effort in this area.<\/p>\n

Microsoft, of course, isn\u2019t the only company playing in this field. George believes that it does have a leg up on its competitors like Google and AWS, though. \u201cWhen we look across the industry, we see that there are now three hyper-scale clouds on the planet,\u201d he noted. \u201cWe\u2019re the only cloud vendor in IoT with a focus on both solutions and deep on-premises support with the likes of Azure Stack. We feel this really differentiates us from the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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