The Internet of Things is without question the buzzword in ICT. The 2016 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain took this to a new level, writes Brian Partridge, the research vice president at 451 Research. The high level prioritisation that IoT holds among major ICT suppliers would have the uninitiated believing that IoT is accelerating everywhere. Of course it’s not, as anyone with P&L responsibilities attached to IoT growth in 2015 would attest. (more…)
March 2, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Christian Fredrikson is the chief executive of F-Secure.
March 1, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Adoption of the Internet of Things is proceeding quickly and although most people don’t yet have a smart refrigerator or toaster in their home, smart has taken off in certain market segments, writes Christian Fredrikson, the chief executive of F-Secure. TVs, fitness tracking devices, home monitoring systems and personal wearable devices are all hot products for connectivity, and it’s only a matter of time before other segments follow. Gartner tells us that by 2020, 25 billion devices will be connected. (more…)
Posted by: George Malim
The humble automobile has come a long way since the first public test – which saw the very first car, crash, into a wall, due to human error. Our cars have become increasingly more complex over the past 100 years, but that original point of failure still exists today: The ‘problem’ of human capability, writes Matthew Duke-Woolley, an analyst with Beecham Research. (more…)
February 29, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Server rooms and data centers are full of expensive computers and networking equipment that are designed to operate within a given temperature range. (more…)
Posted by: George Malim
A technology revolution is underway in which sensors, networks, and analytics software connects physical objects and infrastructure to computing systems, writes Stephen Chadwick, the managing director for EuroNorth at Dassault Systèmes. (more…)
February 23, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The Internet of things (IoT) has everyone giddy, writes Neil Chapman, the senior vice president and managing director for EMEA/International at ForgeRock. (more…)
February 22, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Forty years ago, I worked on software that monitored and controlled its physical environment, in telephone exchanges, writes Dr. Chris Harding is Director for Interoperability at The Open Group. I have been away from that world for a long time, but am now becoming involved with similar problems, as I work on standards for the Internet of Things (IoT). (more…)
February 18, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Digitisation is often characterised through a number of key technologies such as social, mobile, analytics, cloud and IoT. However, the real impact of digitisation is echoed in the corridors of small, medium and especially large enterprises through digital transformation (DX), writes Dr Setrag Khoshafian, the chief evangelist and vice president of BPM technology at Pegasystems. (more…)
February 17, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
