9. Siemens Gets Into Containers For IoT With Acquisition
Industrial giant Siemens is signaling the importance of container technology for industrial IoT with its acquisition of technology from edge computing startup Pixeom. The acquisition, announced in October, includes Pixeom's edge computing platform and employees but not the business itself. The company said Pixeom's edge computing platform "will be at the heart" of its future Siemens Industrial Edge ecosystem, which it described as an open ecosystem that enables companies to create and manage edge applications with ease to analyze data in factory environments. One of Pixeom's key capabilities is the ability to package, deploy and orchestrate cloud applications on commodity hardware through containerization, giving companies the ability to run these types of applications on edge and on-premises servers without the need for any specific hardware configuration.
