GE will run 70 per cent of its workload in the cloud by 2020, says CIO Jim Fowler

Sooraj Shah
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Fowler tells Oracle CEO Mark Hurd that GE wants to become the world's best digital industrial company and that it needs the cloud to get there

General Electric (GE) will run 70 per cent of its workload in the cloud by 2020 as part of the biggest transformation in its 130 year history, according to its CIO Jim Fowler. Fowler was speakin...

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