IoT

Guest Blogger: Jenifer Piccioni, Manager, Product Management Jenifer Piccioni leads Product Management for the Cisco IoT BU, with a specialization in the Cisco Kinetic and Connected Safety & Security product lines. In today’s digital era, more and more connected devices fuel new business opport…

Need to stem the skyrocketing cost of mobility management? Don’t just zero in on your monthly bills. Managing mobility across thousands of employees racks up many expenses far beyond your telecom rates. That’s why it’s critical to look at your total cost of ownership (TCO) as a key to lowering your…

After publishing “Building the Internet of Things” some 16 months ago, readers told me they gained a deeper understanding of why they should get moving with IoT projects. Going beyond the hype, the book underscored that IoT is real, success cases abound in multiple industries, and users are realizin…

Riding in a plane is significantly safer per mile than traveling by road. For the majority of people, driving or being a passenger in a motor vehicle is the most dangerous action they will perform in a day. Fatalities caused by aviation have steadily declined since the 1960s, but road safety has rem…

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…

The 2016 Distributed Denial of Service attack on Dyn came from more than 100,000 infected devices. DDoS attacks leverage massive quantities of unsecured Internet-connected devices to disrupt Internet services worldwide [DYN]. The malicious and sophisticated attack kicked off serious conversations ab…

Digital transformations are everywhere around us – innovative uses of digital technology that generate real improvements for people.  I often wonder about the story behind the transformation. How did they figure out the right technology to use, and the right partners? This is the story behind the st…

It used to be science fiction.  Now, it’s real. Hackers can use an unprotected infusion pump on the network as a gateway to your hospital’s data. A staff member might unknowingly download a malicious PDF from an email. Or perhaps a virus has been lurking undetected in your network for some time. The…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is having a big impact – and it’s about to get much bigger. IoT is evolving on a massive scale, thanks to the rise of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies like NB-IoT and LoRa™, and innovative IoT platforms to cost-efficiently control thousands o…