Fog computing

I’m fortunate to work with talented technical leaders who are helping to drive innovation forward in strategic areas of technology. My guest blogger this week is Frank Michaud, who is working with Cisco and the OpenFog Consortium to help develop a common industry approach to implementing blockchain…

For several years now, Cisco has been advocating for Fog Computing as an essential element of a scalable, reliable and cost effective IoT architecture. By developing Industrial IoT solutions based on Cisco IOx, data originating from “things” can be locally filtered, analyzed and manipulated on IIoT…

Cisco is fortunate to have technical leaders who are helping to shape the industry approach to emerging technologies such as fog computing. I’m pleased to have as a guest blogger Chuck Byers, senior software engineering lead in Cisco’s Enterprise Networking IoT Engineering group. As co-chair of the…

Earlier this week, the Trusted IoT Alliance announced the launch of the first-of-its-kind testnet for blockchain, enabling software engineers worldwide to access a realistic, open-source test environment for the development of blockchain solutions. The multi-protocol, testnet should prove to be a ma…

One of the most common misconceptions about fog computing is that it’s just another term for edge computing. That’s like saying fruit is just another word for apple. There is overlap, sure. But the word apple doesn’t begin to convey all the possibilities you’ll find in fruit! Similarly, processing d…

Fresh from the OpenFog Consortium members meeting last month in Hong Kong, I couldn’t be more pleased with our direction heading into 2018. First, the meeting provided an opportunity to tighten the focus of our technical workgroups, zeroing in on interoperability. Developing interoperability for fog…

I’m pleased to introduce my colleague Chuck Byers, who is Principle Engineer and Platform Architect with Cisco’s Corporate Strategic Innovations Group. He works on the architecture and implementation of fog computing platforms, media processing systems, and the Internet of Things. He also serves as…

The Internet of Things (IoT) has started to move to the mainstream in enterprises across all industries. With IoT spending set to increase by 15 percent to reach $772.5 billion by the end of 2018, the coming year will undoubtedly bring further growth in the number of connected devices and enterprise…

You can compare the Internet of Things (IoT) to the human body. When your hand picks up a –cup of hot tea or coffee, touch sensors in your fingers detect right away it is hot. Pain impulses to the nervous system signal the brain to let go of the cup. While actuators in the hand obey, the brain…