In Chapter 5, Assessing Industrial Internet Applications, we described some considerations regarding applications and emerging frameworks. As this book was being published, industrial providers of applications and public Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) were continuing to develop frameworks of components useful in developing these applications, along with new IIoT applications. While some of the industrial providers initially focused on deploying their applications and frameworks to their own clouds, there appears to be movement by many of these companies to redeploy their offerings upon public clouds, leveraging the significant investments in infrastructure and aggressive pricing provided by leading CSPs.
The major CSPs (such as AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, and others) continue to extend functionality of components in...
