Two communications giants. What makes them similar and different? AT&T as Ma Bell ruled the roost as the biggest communications company for over a 100 years. It had a plethora of technology inventions, 100 million subscribers, and over a million employees before its break-up in 1984. Today, Facebook has well over 2 billion monthly active …
A look at the evolving world of IoT standards across IT and OT. I am often asked what the standards for IoT are. Is it MQTT or AMQP? What about ZigBee or Z-Wave? Is it 6LoWPAN or LoRa and the LPWAN variations? Do we start with an OSI 7-layer framework? What about the long-standing OT (operational …
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The promise of speed and autonomy in development comes at a cost. Choreographing Microservices is Harder than Ruling the Seven Kingdoms We are won over by the idea of coding with abandon. We can write beautiful pieces of code. Each is a widget running in its robust little container on some virtualized compute complex, virtually interconnected. …
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SDx (software-defined everything) is not about software. It is about shifting of control. We hear about software eating our increasingly digitized world. Pervasively connected devices and software enables us to shift control at a whim. This shift in power could upstage your businesses if you don’t manage it carefully. Here are the five ways technology …
IoT isn’t just about improving existing business operations For years predictive maintenance has been touted as the killer app of IoT; that IoT and predictive analytics is the cure for inefficient machine maintenance and unplanned downtime; that we need industrial IoT to deliver zero-downtime (“ZDT”) and so on. All that is true. However, new technologies …
Serverless Computing accelerates time to value and reduces costs We are a long way from Remote Procedure Calls (RPC). We are in serverless land. Here is a quick look at its implications for developers, IT, and its impact on business velocity. In the serverless world, clients send messages to servers. Servers process messages upon the arrival. …
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The convergence of IT and OT has dramatically altered the investing landscape. The convergence of IT and OT dramatically alters investing activities in corporate development. 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. However, lately …
How to rethink your go-to-market (GTM) strategy for a connected world. We can build the best camel there is. But can we transport the camel to the right buyer? Do you have the right pallet for it? The right go-to-market (GTM) strategy is needed to ensure you have product-pallet fit to reach your buyers. Beyond …
Reimagine your products for a connected world. Many years ago, I used the phrase IoT = IT + OT as shorthand for how information and communication technologies (ICT) need to be integrated with operational technologies (OT), and how IT organizations and business operations teams need to work collaboratively in order to realize value from IoT. …
An explanation and the three different types Edge computing is a means of processing data physically close to where the data is being produced, i.e. where the things and humans are — in the field area, homes, and remote offices. Since they don’t live in the cloud, we need to complement cloud computing with many forms of …
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