The Industrial Cloud explained Buyers' Checklist - The Manufacturer

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The Industrial Cloud explained #4 : A Buyers’ Guide to the Industrial Cloud The Industrial Cloud is set to enable a new wave of digital manufacturing in the UK – but as with any emerging technology, it pays to ensure there is the right fit between the capabilities your business requires – and the functionality offered by a potential Industrial Cloud provider.

We believe this checklist enables you to evaluate whether the Industrial Cloud on offer to you is the Industrial Cloud you need!

Buyers’ Checklist

Asset Connectivity

Scalability for Machine Data

Does the provider deliver advanced connectivity-as-a-service for these industrial assets, combining proprietary technologies with global telecommunications partners to enable rapid provisioning of sensors, gateways and software-defined machines

Machines produce different types of data, which consumer cloud services are not built to handle. Is the solution purpose-built to store, analyse, and manage the variety, volume, and velocity of industrial data?

£ Governance

Security + Compliance Is the solution designed with the most

Is the solution designed to streamline

advanced security protocols available,

governance and drive down compliance

including customised, adaptive security

costs for each individual user, while

solutions for industrial operators and

respecting national data sovereignty

developers? What track record of

regulations globally? Does the provider

operational security and information

have a track record of delivering value in

security does the provider have?

highly-regulated industries?

Interoperability

Gated Community

Many cloud platforms trap users in

Public cloud services are open to any

large silos with limited access to other

individual or organization, exposing

solutions. Ask any potential provider

manufacturers to unnecessary risk.

whether their solution will operate

Ask whether a provider can offer a

seamlessly with applications and

‘gated community’ model that ensures

services running in a broad spectrum of

tenants of the cloud all belong to the

cloud environments. You need

industrial ecosystem.

optimised security and data structure offerings - while maintaining and interoperating within existing solutions.

Developer Insight Does the platform enable developers to have visibility into their operating environments and every actor connected to it?

Introducing Predix

GE knows industrial machines and related data analytics better than anyone, and its Predix Industrial Cloud platform is “an OS for Clickhere. here. industry”. To find out more about Predix, click

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