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Deploying Successful IoT Solutions | Christian Lutz, Founder & CEO of Crate.io | #IoTFounders E024

IoT For All Podcast · 24 Apr 2019 · 34m

What this episode covers

Christian Lutz, CEO and co-founder of Crate.io, discusses the evolution of his company from a general-purpose database to a specialized solution for industrial IoT data. He explains how Crate DB handles massive-scale time-series data for discrete manufacturing, citing a global plastic packaging leader as a key customer. Lutz details the challenges of selling to industrial CFOs, the importance of avoiding 'pilot purgatory' by focusing on shop-floor pain points, and the strategic shift toward cloud-native deployments on Azure and AWS.

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companies scaling up

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Companies
Crate.io, Microsoft, Amazon, AWS
Products
Crate DB, Elasticsearch, Lucene, Azure IoT Edge
Also
TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, Forbes

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