Energy - Oil & Gas and Utilities
Join Cisco at European Utility Week 4-6 November 2014
Join Cisco at European Utility Week 2014 (4-6 November, 2014 in Amsterdam) to gain perspective on key industry issues and learn why utilities worldwide are choosing Cisco to lower their costs and deliver more value from their operations on a single, intelligent and secure platform. I’m lookin…
Connected Graphics on display at SEG 2014 by NetApp, Cisco, Citrix and NVIDIA
The coming week sees the SEG International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting take place in Denver, Colorado. SEG is the Society of Exploration Geophysicists – those scientists that are at the sharp end of finding oil and gas around the world. Despite the current boom in non-conventional dril…
Part Four: IT & OT, Utilities – IT and OT, Corporate Change
This is the fourth blog in a four part series on the convergence of IT and OT (Operational Technologies) by Rick Geiger Operational Technology has evolved from serial communication to modern systems that are largely, if not completely, IP networked systems. The unique requirements of OT have often…
Cisco to Provide Secure Ops Solution to Royal Dutch Shell
This week sees the IoT ( Internet of Things) World Forum (IoTWF) Research & Innovation Symposium that is showing IoT related subjects such as the current research, use cases, and customer experiences as part of the Internet of Everything. This time the symposium will focus on transporta…
Field Support for New Workers with Mobile video Collaboration – Wherever They Are
Holding onto “Tribal Knowledge” Recent data from the Department of Energy (DOE) indicates that approximately 60% of electric utility workers will be eligible for retirement in the next five years. The impending loss of the most skilled and knowledgeable workers in the industry has put many utility c…
Welcome Cisco’s Donald Graham to The Cisco Energy Blog
Please welcome Donald Graham, Practice Advisor, Manufacturing & Energy Practice, Business Transformation Group to the Cisco Energy Blog. I am pleased to introduce Donald Graham, a Sr. Vertical Practice Advisor in Cisco’s Business Transformation Group, to the Cisco Energy Blog. I his role Donald…
Part Three: IT & OT, Utilities – The Need and the Opportunity
This is the third of a four part series on the convergence of IT and OT (Operational Technologies) by Rick Geiger Physical Security is one example of Operational Technology that has evolved from serial communication to modern systems that are largely, if not completely, IP networked systems. The un…
Success for Cisco at Yokogawa Users Conference
Last week Cisco participated in the Yokogawa Users Conference and Exhibition at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston, TX. In this, our first year’s participation in the event, we showed our new offers on the exhibit floor : Secure Ops and Collaborative Operations for the Oil and Gas industry. S…
Cisco and Partner Akili showing Best Practices for Oil and Gas at SAP Conference in Houston
Cisco and Akili feature their joint Oil & Gas Technology Solutions with SAP HANA running on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) at the Best Practices for Oil and Gas conference Sept. 16-19 in Houston, TX. The Best Practices for Oil & Gas Conference is North America’s leading forum…