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How is cybersecurity viewed in your organization?  Do you feel like your company is well-positioned against cyber threats in your Operational Technology (OT) areas?  Is there acknowledgement that as more things and people are connected, that cyber risk will increase? These are just a few of the ques…

The Global Petroleum Show (GPS) is North America’s leading energy event which attracts more than 50,000 domestic and international oil and gas executives from over 21,000 companies.  This year’s event takes place June 11 – 13, 2019 at Stampede Park in Calgary, Canada.  Officials from government, nat…

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…

You are the champions of configuration; the sultans of software, the pashas of peripherals, the bhagwans of bandwidth, the wizards of wireless and industrial IoT; the kings and queens of the cloud. For the Superheroes, we have a Super-Event, as Cisco rolls into Las Vegas for the annual CiscoLive me…

A really fun day was held by all at the Ersi International User Conference in San Diego. Over one hundred and fifty delegates lined up to use a Cisco selfie-stick to take a ‘selfie’ against a Cisco San Diego photo back drop. Then they had to Tweet it to their followers with the hashtag &…

You may be well aware of the cyberattacks on retailers and banks, but did you know malware encounters are on the rise in the energy and oil & gas sectors? The findings of the Cisco Annual Security Report may shock you. The 2012 breach of Saudi Aramco’s network disabled thousands of compute…

I caught up with Stewart Young, Global Alliance Manager at OSIsoft LLC, a Cisco partner, to find out more about ‘Edge Computing’, or, as some call it, ‘Fog Computing’. With the huge amount of data coming off Industrial sensors and outlying infrastructure, customers are trying…

As I mentioned in my last blog: “Cisco Live Hosts Enhanced Cisco Collaborative Operations Solution Demonstration“, Cisco Live excited many delegates this year, and one of the highlights was indeed the World of Solutions. I talked about how the industrial section of the ‘Cisco Campu…

Cisco Live excited many delegates this year, and one of the highlights was the World of Solutions. “Only Cisco could pull this off” one delegate mentioned on Social media (#CLUS). There was an even stronger sense of confidence that Cisco was relevant to many industry verticals this year. The Industr…