Microsoft has announced it had teamed up with Cisco to provide a “pre-integrated Cisco Edge to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub solution.”
Tony Shakib, IoT Business Acceleration Leader, Microsoft Azure wrote on the Microsoft blog: Auzre IoT solution provides the necessary software, hardware, and Cloud services that businesses need to rapidly launch IoT initiatives and quickly realise business value.
According to Tony, using software-based intelligence pre-loaded onto Cisco IoT network devices, telemetry data pipelines from industry-standard protocols like OPC-Unified Architecture (OPC-UA) and Modbus can be easily established using a friendly UI directly into Azure IoT Hub. Services like Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, and Microsoft Azure Notification Hub services can be used to quickly build IoT applications for the enterprise. Additional telemetry processing is also supported by Cisco through local scripts developed in Microsoft Visual Studio, where filtered data can also be uploaded directly into Azure IoT Hub.
He added the collaboration will provide customers with a fully integrated solution that will give access to powerful design tools, global connectivity, advance analytics, and cognitive services for analysing IoT data.