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Mining's going to the clouds

Expanding on one of the myriad of hot topics of the Future of Mining Americas 2019 event, data optimisation, Komatsu Mining’s Anthony Reid paired up with Azure Databricks’ Sheridan McDonald to talk about how working 'in the cloud' can improve mine site operations

Donna Schmidt in Denver, Colorado
Sheridan McDonald of Azure Databricks and Anthony Reid of Komatsu Mining share the FoM Americas stage to talk about mining in the cloud

Sheridan McDonald of Azure Databricks and Anthony Reid of Komatsu Mining share the FoM Americas stage to talk about mining in the cloud

In their presentation, 'Mining in the Cloud', Komatsu Mining's analytics senior manager Anthony Reid and Azure Databricks' western US sales director Sheridan McDonald took on why AI and elastic cloud technology...

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