For years we have been hearing about the virtues of IoT and specifically how Industrial IoT (IIoT) is the cure for inefficient machine maintenance and unplanned downtime. While all that is true, if zero-downtime (“ZDT”) was such a pain, why aren’t we all rushing to get connected and drive maintenance costs down and uptime up? …
IoT Killer App is NOT the Clichéd Predictive Maintenance Read More »
Predatory habits of Big Fish in the Digital World We wake up routinely to the news of one acquisition or another. Most stories repeat the refrain, “Big fish bought little fish”. We hit snooze and move on. Lately though, the world of IT acquisitions have gotten more interesting, in part due to digitization. Applying information technology …
Digitization Impacts the Trajectory of IT Acquisitions Read More »
You are at 30,000 feet and cruising. You are comfortably seated and enjoying your movie and a drink. You are not breaking sweat over the autopilot navigating your plane. Later, you are on the ground. You are driving. The car’s autopilot grabs control. You feel a loss of control. Elsewhere in our digital world, control …
Intelligent Automation and Five Disruptive Shifts of Control Read More »
Incarnations of Edge Computing In the early 2000s, a few in our team decided to add an application environment to enterprise branch and mobile routers. “We’ll add a separate computer board to a router and run a virtual machine in it”, we thought; “we’ll enable applications like printing, point-of-sale, file-sharing etc. on it”, we said; …
Pyramid or Cube: Ask the Product Manager (Courtesy: GEICO) Over decades, I have been lucky to learn from master product management leaders. I have learnt from them the art of specifying and designing hardware, software and service products. I have seen them pricing to extract most value; seen them coaxing engineering, manufacturing, and services teams …
Product Management in the Digital Age: Lessons from Pyramids and Canals Read More »
Sometime ago, I talked about how remote monitoring of people is making humans the ultimate managed device. Beyond making us humans the most unique managed device since the smartphone, remote management of humans will break new ground on two core aspects of a utility service — truck rolls and demarcation lines. In a world where multiple service …
The Ultimate Managed Device: Truck Rolls and Demarcation Lines Read More »
M-O-P of Consumption Models Have you been in meetings where someone lets out phrases such as, “we need to cater to new consumption models”, or “we need to evolve our business model”? I am sure you have. So have I. Absent business context, the word consumption evokes a sense of dread if one knew that …
The utilization of submarine dark fiber is increasing. So is the capacity investments to connect data centers within a continent. In all the hoopla about cloud, cool gadgets, anytime-anywhere-content, and digitization of industries, there are unsung heroes. These heroes take the form of perceived old business players. They lack the swagger and the adulation that …
Plenty is being said about the amount of data that exists and the amount that will be created in our world. More is implied than said about how the processing of data has fundamentally changed over the years and how application architectures and hardware infrastructure have evolved. The combination of fast and affordable computing and …
Streams ‘R’ Us: Distributed Data Processing in the 21st Century Read More »
Several years ago, I marveled at the evolution of utility services from water, gas, electricity, to the internet. The managed devices used to deliver the utility service has evolved through the ages. Service providers call it the customer-premise equipment (CPE), such as your set-top box or an internet access router. Over decades, I have created …
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