Cloudrail enters into partnership with Microsoft

Lisa Marie Münster Lisa Marie Münster | 27.08.2021

For the Mannheim-based company, it's a huge success: Microsoft relies on Cloudrail's system to connect production facilities with its Azure platform.

In order to connect the Azure platform with the production facilities of its customers, Microsoft is entering into a partnership with Cloudrail from Mannheim. So far, the start-up has already been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), but with Microsoft, Cloudrail is getting an even bigger player on its side. Joint marketing at trade shows, for example, is also planned. "For us, this is another gamechanger," founder Felix Kollmer tells the Handelsblatt.

Cloudrail enables connectivity to Industry 4.0 even for old machines by equipping them with sensors. This collects data in the factory and transfers it to a cloud. "The machines in the factories are highly automated, but they offer little insight into the data - and only the modern systems have an interface to IT either," Kollmer explains his thinking behind Cloudrail to Handelsblatt. Connection usually takes weeks, but the Mannheim-based company promises it "within hours or even minutes."

Cloudrail went through a realignment in 2018, and in December 2020 the Mannheim-based company received seven-figure funding from strategic investors. The cooperation with Microsoft and also the money are to serve the further expansion of Cloudrail.


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