Boeing refuses a set of clouds for the sake of one

On August 2, 2016 The Wall Street Journal announced plans of Boeing, together with divisions of AerData and Jeppesen, to transfer software products in the field of aviation analytics to the Azure platform.

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According to outputs of the company, loading of the services on several cloud platforms reduces business performance. The solution is caused by decrease in efficiency of the relevant services Boeing when using of several cloud platforms^[1] at once^[1].

Transition to cloud computing - a part of the long-term strategy of Boeing directed to increase in an annual income of the company in commercial and military sectors from $15 billion to $50 billion by 2025. Use of cloud computing will help to use more effectively possibilities of commercial airplanes in which functioning the increasing importance is received by the Internet. In particular, access to worldwide network opens for pilots and aviation personnel access to information resources in real time.

Boeing 787, (2014)

In the long term of Boeing she intends to start an application package, focused on increase in efficiency of exploitation of AF. It is expected that due to information processing in real time fuel consumption will manage to be cut almost for 10%.

Microsoft intends to provide technical support of Boeing and to promote sales of software products of the aircraft manufacturer.

Need of use of cloud computing is caused by feature of the aviation industry to generate huge arrays of various data. In particular, the Boeing 787 airplanes create more than 500 GB of data for one flight. This information gathers from thousands of sensors installed on the aircraft. Airlines use these data for forecasting of technical condition of the airplane and optimization of fuel consumption.

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