Microsoft Azure is a Cloud Computing platform and infrastructure created by Microsoft for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides both PaaS and IaaS services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Azure was announced in October 2008 and released on 1 February 2010 as Windows Azure, before being renamed to Microsoft Azure on 25 March 2014.

Resin.io makes it simple to deploy, update, and maintain code running on remote devices. Our goal is to empower you to write great applications for devices - both in the virtual realm and those that cross over into the physical world - without having to worry about the friction involved in getting your hardware working and keeping your application up to date. Doing this manually involves setting up an operating system, establishing a secure local network, configuring some means of recording and viewing logs, and providing some means of shipping new versions of code to devices in the field, amongst other equally vexing tasks.

azeti Networks AG, a Berlin based Technology-Startup is engaged in the field of IoT and M2M for more than 5 years and has successfully deployed more than 1.000 installations of their M2M remote monitoring and management software in Telco, Healthcare, Industry etc. around the globe. Bringing the Intelligence to the edge by using the Fog based approach, 95% of the M2M data is already analyzed at the remote location.