Energy - Oil & Gas and Utilities

As an oil and gas operator, you function in a target-rich environment for cyberattack. But are your fears over unseen threats preventing you from leveraging the full power of Digital and the Internet of Things (IoT) in your facility? Or hampering your development of a sound security strategy? It’s…

The 91st Annual ENTELEC Conference & Expo runs April 23rd – 25th at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX.  As one of the premier events for communications and control technologies in the energy industry, it brings together leading communications, IT/OT and networking professional…

Itron and Cisco have a long history of working together to revolutionize the utility industry and sharing a vision of what we can achieve together. Through the intelligent connectivity we deliver, we are helping utilities and cities be more resourceful, efficient and unlock new business opportunitie…

The upcoming DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition is set to kick-off in New Orleans on February 5th, bringing together over 13,500 global electric, gas and water utility leaders. Cisco is once again proud to be part of this important gathering of industry leaders. For the past 30 years we have hel…

Nowadays when people think of Oil & Gas they tend to link this industry with pollution, depletion of natural resources and super-rich countries that base their economies and lifestyle on the extraction of these fossil fuels in their territories. However, it is important to realize that most of t…

Because “somewhat prepared” is not good enough. Are you cyber-resilient? Or like other utility leaders, are you asking yourself what it really means to be cyber-resilient? It’s the burning question for utilities today who want to modernize and secure their networks. Field Area Networks are critical…

Coming up in Galveston, Texas on May 31-June 1, 2018 at the Galveston Island Convention Center is the Downstream Conference & Exhibition.  This event is positioned at the forefront of the booming Downstream industry in North America, and is regarded as the most significant meeting place for Down…

Visit our Itron and Cisco partnership page.  Connected things are proliferating in cities (1.6 billion in 2016) and utilities (600 million smart meters in 2016) around the globe. Data is streaming into utility operational back office systems, providing inputs for everything from energy usage, billin…

As DistribuTECH kicks off, this is a great time to look more closely at how communications between distribution-line reclosers and a utility’s control center can work. Cisco and Eaton have developed a solution for this area of operations that speaks to utilities’ desire to—among other things—authent…