Hardware Podcasts

46: I'm Painting the Turtle

Embedded.fm · 9 Apr 2014 · 40m

What this episode covers

Jennelle Crothers, a Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, explains her role in bridging the gap between complex enterprise technologies like Azure, Hyper-V, and Windows 8, and the IT professionals who use them. She details how cloud services like Azure allow embedded device manufacturers to offload backend infrastructure, enabling scalable IoT solutions without managing physical data centers. The conversation also covers the hardware capabilities of the Microsoft Surface Pro, demonstrating its utility as a full Windows development machine for embedded engineers, including running J-Tag tools and compilers.

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large enterprises

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Companies
Microsoft, Fitbit, Amazon
Products
Azure, Hyper-V, Windows 8, Surface Pro
Also
She's Geeky

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