The launch of Azure IoT Edge was one of Microsoft's slightly more esoteric but interesting announcements at its Build developer conference in Seattle today. While "the cloud" is all about moving ...

This article is more than 5 years old. At Build 2020, Microsoft announced the new capability of Azure IoT Central which makes it easy to connect edge computing devices running Azure IoT Edge software.

Microsoft's service for bringing computing and artificial intelligence processing to IoT devices, Azure IoT Edge, is rolling out globally. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor ...

Microsoft also today announced that the Azure IoT platform will now support Google’s Android and Android Things platform via its Java SDK. What’s more interesting, though, is the new services.

Image: ML Azure IoT Hub, Microsoft's communications platform for billions of cloud connected devices, has moved to general availability. The Azure messaging hub for Internet of Things (IoT) is a ...

Instead of developing its own IoT starter kit, Microsoft is working with MXChip to deliver a low-cost Arduino-compatible board that can work directly with Azure’s IoT tools.

In 2015, Microsoft launched its Azure IoT Hub as an integral part of its Azure IoT suite, and not long after AWS unveiled its AWS IoT platform. Following is a breakdown of AWS IoT and Azure IoT Hub.

“Azure IoT Hub provides an easy and secure way to connect, provision and manage billions of IoT devices sending and receiving trillions of messages per month,” stated the Microsoft executive ...

Microsoft's newly announced Azure IoT Edge service thrusts the traditionally IT vendor into the industrial market to compete with manufacturing giant GE, partners told CRN.

Microsoft's introduced features for Azure IoT customers include the usage of spatial analytics with Azure Maps, with better information and insights about their "things" and where actions are needed.

Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, dubbed "EFLOW" by Microsoft, is a way to use Linux virtual machine processes with Windows- and Azure-based processes for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Microsoft already offers a platform-as-a-service IoT product for Azure customers who would prefer to do more of the work themselves, but this new service eliminates a lot of that heavy lifting.