The word disruption is thrown about a great deal nowadays – and why not? We live in exciting times with social, mobile, analytics and cloud being hailed for offering new levels of flexibility for organisations looking to do more with less, writes Marne Martin, the chief executive of ServicePower. (more…)
April 12, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to rapidly transform the workplace, writes Simon Heron, the CTO of Redscan. Companies that are investing in new technologies have started to experience improvements in business efficiency and competitiveness. As the IoT expands, protecting a company’s data and intellectual property (IP) will become more important than ever. (more…)
April 11, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
From flat networks where everything was interconnected, to hierarchical models with enhanced security, to a borderless world – enterprise network architecture has certainly evolved, writes Leon Adato, the head geek at SolarWinds. Though, one network metric has remained a priority despite this evolution – bandwidth. (more…)
April 8, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Many businesses are reaping the rewards of the connectivity that IoT provides, while many more are rapidly developing their plans to join this revolution, writes Mark Warren, the product marketing director of Perforce Software. As they do so, they are starting to appreciate the practical challenges that IoT brings: Getting products to market quickly, changing standards – or no standards, rapidly improving hardware, addressing security issues and, especially, coping with the vast amounts of data being generated. All of these challenges are putting a strain on traditional software product development and deployment processes. (more…)
April 5, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
When something is invisible, exercise caution and do all you can to reveal it and render it harmless. That’s the lesson the human race has learned from infectious micro-organisms—in many cases, the hard way. In enterprises today, writes Rob Greer, the chief marketing officer and senior vice president of products at ForeScout Technologies, where devices are constantly gaining access to networks sight unseen, fear of the invisible is certainly justifiable. But the good news is, IT administrators can put those fears to rest with currently available network access technologies that can largely “disinfect” the environment by making the invisible visible. (more…)
March 30, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Reinhard Mayr, the product manager of COPA-DATA continues his discussion of the five vital steps any manufacturer can take to improve the security of connected automated systems. (more…)
March 14, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Manufacturing has come a long way since the Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century, writes Martin Hill, the vice president of marketing at Epicor International. The second Industrial Revolution in the 1900s saw the introduction of mass production. In the late 1960s, electronics and the automation of production lines entered the industrial environment. Now, we are benefiting from robotics and are beginning to discover the value of 3D printing. We are on the cusp of Industry 4.0, the fourth Industrial Revolution. (more…)
January 4, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
In the second part of her blog exploring how the Internet of Everything is enabling the intelligent high street, Sarah Eccleston, the director for enterprise Networks at Cisco UK & Ireland, expands on how IoT technologies can help integrate online and in-store behaviour. (more…)
December 29, 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
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