"The real basis for going with the Azure IoT Suite is to be at the forefront of using machine-to-machine communication and working with different data collection devices. Because we don’t know today what assets we’ll be monitoring in the future for our customers."

"We wanted to enable two-way communication between the cloud and local sites and provide identity management, insight into all the assets, tight security, and better streaming performance. So when the Azure IoT Suite came out, we jumped at the opportunity—it solved our problem. We didn’t have to build anything new—we …