Judson Althoff describes how his company has used cloud computing to help agricultural companies like Land O'Lakes. Steven Rosenbush, editor of the CIO Journal, spoke with Judson Althoff, executive vice president of world-wide commercial business for Microsoft. MR. ALTHOFF: Digital is a wave of innovation that’s fueled by cloud technologies like [the Internet of Things], artificial intelligence and augmented reality. MR. ALTHOFF: There are cloud scenarios where companies are doing a lot of lift-and-shift motions [which involves re-creating apps they already use in the cloud without modifying them]. JUDSON ALTHOFF | ’Digital transformation is a wave of innovation that’s fueled by cloud technologies.’ Photo: Nikki Ritcher/Dow JonesAnd we said, “Well, listen, we can certainly take your data-center assets and lift and shift them to the cloud and save you a bunch of money.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 07, 2017 03:05 UTC