IoT

A jam-packed media briefing room in Tokyo was the site of a big announcement this week. FANUC, the world’s leading maker of industrial robots, announced a collaborative effort with Cisco, Rockwell Automation, and Preferred Networks (PFN) to jointly develop and deploy the FANUC Intelligent Edge Link…

This year Cisco sponsored the OSIsoft User Conference in San Francisco. Customers across the manufacturing, energy, and utility industries came to learn about our new fog computing capabilities that let analytics run at the edge of the network. The biggest challenge these customers have is that much…

The comic strips of our childhood fascinate us. A once prosperous city falls under the shroud of crime. Enemies of various origins and shapes attack it from all sides. The horizons darken and all seems to be lost. Then magically, the superheroes arrive. Armed with x-ray vision, mighty punches, or ab…

About the Author: Scot recently joined Cisco and previously worked for Rockwell Automation for over 11 years as the Regional Marketing Leader for their Western US Architecture and Software business (Controllers, I/O, HMI, Networks, and Software). It is well accepted that there is great potential in…

Data continues to explode and is becoming increasingly important to achieve business success.  Companies rely on their data to make them smarter, more productive, and better decision makers. Advances in data management, business intelligence and analytics have improved organizational performance, bu…

About the Author: Paul Brooks is a Business Development Manager at Rockwell Automation and is the lead for the Industrial IP Advantage, a coalition of like-minded companies driving community, thought leadership, and promotion of standard, unmodified Ethernet and Internet Protocol. We’ve all seen th…

I was fortunate to attend and present at the N.American Manufacturing Excellence Summit (NAMES) last week.  It was an excellent chance to listen and learn from industry leading manufacturing executives around their best practices for lean/six-sigma, attracting and training the next generation workfo…

With Earth day right around the corner, I thought this would be a good time to discuss Cisco’s role in sustainability. We are proud to share that we have been awarded the 2016 Climate Leadership Award from the EPA for our work making our supply chain more sustainable. At Cisco we’re not only energy…

Guest Blog by Elizabeth Coyne, Managing Editor at Light Reading, who is responsible for driving the curriculum and direction of Upskill U.  There is no doubt that CSPs are facing a talent crunch as they transition from traditional networks to virtualized, software-based New IP networks. Others in t…