The IoT is set to have significant impact on the way we do things today; at home, at work, while shopping, even in manufacturing and medicine, writes Suresh Srinivasan, the director of quality assurance for Virtusa. (more…)
December 9, 2015
Posted by: George Malim
Since we started talking about Software Defined things , we have moved, along with the rest of the IT industry, from using the narrow term SDN to the broader SDx. This has allowed us to use one acronym to encompass software-defined networking, data centres, storage, server and any yet to be developed technologies that are all software-defined. What we didn’t anticipate was  the Software Defined City, writes Chris Gabriel, the UK CTO of Logicalis.
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December 4, 2015
Posted by: George Malim
In its report, The Identity of Things (IDoT) for the Internet of Things, analyst firm Gartner lays out how it believes the Internet of Things (IoT), or what is often now referred to as the Internet of Everything (IoE), cannot and will not prosper unless organisations knuckle down and come to grips with how to manage multiple identities, writes Neil Chapman, the senior vice president and managing director for EMEA of ForgeRock. (more…)
December 3, 2015
Posted by: George Malim
As the hype transitions to commercial deployment, it seems the M2M industry is starting to fulfil the early potential by driving the kind of innovation that is set to make tangible impact on how we live our lives, writes Phil Cole, the sales director of Wireless Logic. (more…)
December 2, 2015
Posted by: George Malim
We are in the middle of a new industrial revolution brought about by the Internet of Things (IoT), writes Keith Minster, a product manager at Drax Technology. (more…)
November 30, 2015
Posted by: George Malim
The characteristics of the UK population are changing; the number of people over the age of 65 in the UK is set to rise to 19 million by 2050, up 5.5 million from the current figures, writes Maria Hernandez, the Internet of Everything lead, UK & Ireland, at Cisco Systems. With an ageing population in the UK, the cost implications this is likely to have on healthcare system means better overall management needs to be put in place by government, industry professionals and patients. (more…)
November 18, 2015
Posted by: IoT global network
The explosion in internet-connected devices has opened up a world of possibilities in ways that we might never have anticipated. But have these new capabilities and leaps forward in connectivity come at the expense of security, asks Amit Sethi, the principal consultant at Cigital. (more…)
November 16, 2015
Posted by: George Malim
The evolution of smart, connected and autonomous products is reshaping the manufacturing industry and its ecosystem. The convergence of operational technology and information technology is opening a completely new axis, and a large one at that, for creating path breaking innovations and opportunities in the manufacturing ecosystem. (more…)
October 29, 2015
Posted by: Sudip Singh
Much has been said about the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), but it’s important to emphasise that innovation in this market is simply not going to happen of its own accord. According to a recent report by McKinsey & Company, failing to solve the sticky issues around IoT interoperability could cost the industry a minimum of $1.5 trillion in lost value per year. (more…)
October 27, 2015
Posted by: Olivier Beaujard
The UK transport infrastructure is under pressure like never before. With congestion costing the UK economy £8bn a year, delays present a genuine economic threat, and new transformative capabilities are required, writes Alison Vincent, the chief technology officer of Cisco UK & Ireland. (more…)
October 16, 2015
Posted by: Alison Vincent