IoT

Manufacturing to IT: “You just don’t understand the reality of the factory floor.” IT to Manufacturing: “Your legacy systems expose us to security and hackers.” Greater than 99% of the companies I visit waste time, budget, and emotional cycles battling between the information technology (IT) a…

On February 8th, the OpenFog Consortium released the OpenFog Reference Architecture (RA).  This 162 page document represents more than a year’s work from our global membership of 55 organizations. The OpenFog RA is a mid-level guidepost document, full of invaluable architecture recommendations for a…

Advanced Addressing Scheme Securely Connects Billions of Devices and Things Digitization and automation is now a familiar feature in many homes. Mobile connectivity is not just for phones anymore. Today, we have lots of things that generate data or environments that we want to control (locally or r…

As part of my current series introducing concepts from my book, Building the Internet of Things here is a short excerpt from the book: I remember a few years ago when we at Cisco decided to embrace and drive this new phenomenon of everything being connected, we had a fierce debate whether to call th…

As we transition from the Internet Era and move quickly into the Digital Revolution, we are faced with a digital economy powered by IT and the network. Don’t miss the opportunities digitization brings. As Charles Darwin put it, “it is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intel…

This week, Cisco released the 2017 Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast. Not surprisingly, most people focus on the cellular (2G, 3G, 4G and 5G) aspects of the forecast. But there are also some rather exciting insights that can be drawn from our analysis of “the other” mobile technology – W…

In my previous blog, I shared the importance of ubiquitous malware defense. Specifically, it’s critical as the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to proliferate, connecting a larger number of devices with vastly diverse capabilities. The answer is fog computing, because fog nodes bring more computin…

Of course not. Nobody wants their project to fail. But, as with any transition, especially one as far-reaching as the Internet of Things (IoT), we’ve seen some disappointments—and even a few truly spectacular failures. For example, “smart parking” solutions are a much-touted component of smart and c…

Jordan and Pippen. DeMar and Kyle. Magic and Kareem. The Great One and The Moose. Edwin and Jose (…too soon?) Sports history is filled with dynamic duos. Players who so perfectly complemented each other in skills and personality that they elevated their entire team to greatness. A business is no dif…