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How Crate.io Empowers Industrial IoT Transformation – A Conversation with Christian Lutz

Written by Ed Maguire | April 3, 2019

Our conversation with Crate.io co-founder and CEO Christian Lutz explored the backstory of how and why the company was founded. With the growing volumes of data coming from large Internet sites, the rise of NoSQL technologies helped to provide scalable data management and analytics, however, the existing strengths of SQL along with the extensive base of skilled users remains highly relevant. Crate.io combines the scale-out capabilities of NoSQL with SQL programmability in order to address the growing needs of heterogenous data sources from Industrial IoT data. Our discussion explored how Crate’s technology has been adopted in manufacturing, with ALPLA one of the world’s leading producers of packaging leveraging Crate to drive digital transformation across their global manufacturing sites – delivering efficiency gains and costs savings in the process. In an environment where there are increasingly diverse approaches to solving different data management and analysis problems, Crate is emerging as a standout leader enabling Industrial IoT firms to drive digital transformation.

 

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