Most of us have moved our web and e-commerce operations to the cloud, but we
are still getting sales reports and other information we need to run our
business long after the fact. We sell a hamburger on Tuesday, you might say,
but don't know if we made money selling it until Friday. That's because we
still rely on Batch processing, where we generate orders, reports, and other
management-useful pieces of data when it's most convenient for the IT
department to process them, rather than in real time. That was fine when
horse-drawn wagons made our deliveries, but it is far too slow for today's
world, where stock prices and other bits of information circle the world
(literally) at the speed of light. It's time to move to In-Stream Processing.
You can't - and shouldn't - keep putting it off.
[Figure 1, courtesy of the Grid Dynamics Blog]
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IoT: How to Handle All This Data ‘Power Panel
Multiple data types are pouring into IoT deployments. Data is coming in small
packages as well as enormous files and data streams of many sizes. Widespread
use of mobile devices adds to the total.
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In this power panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger
Strukhoff, panelists Gordon Haff, Senior Cloud Strategy Marketing and
Evangelism Manager at Red Hat, Chris Kocher, Founder & Managing Director of
Grey Heron, Ed Featherston, VP, Principal Architect of Cloud Technology
Partners, and Doug Vanderweide, Instructor at Linux Academy, looked at the
tools and environments that are being put to use in IoT deployments, as well
as the team skills a modern enterprise IT shop needs to keep things running,
get a handle on all this data, and deliver the analytics that ad... (more)
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While the focus and objectives of IoT initiatives are many and diverse, they
all share a few common attributes, and one of those is the network. Commonly,
that network includes the Internet, over which there isn't any real control
for performance and availability. Or is there? The current state of the art
for Big Data analytics, as applied to network telemetry, offers new
opportunities for improving and assuring operational integrity.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jim Frey, Vice President of Strategic
Alliances at Kentik, discussed tactics and tools to bridge the gap between
IoT project teams and the network planning and operations functions that play
a significant role in project success.
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The IoT Evolution Will Be Led by Novel ‘Abstraction'
Most technology leaders, contemporary and from the hardware era, are
reshaping their businesses to do software in the hope of capturing value in
IoT. Although IoT is relatively new in the market, it has already gone
through many promotional terms such as IoE, IoX, SDX, Edge/Fog, Mist Compute,
etc. Ultimately, irrespective of the name, it is about deriving value from
independent software assets participating in an ecosystem as one
comprehensive solution.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Kausik Sridhar, a founder and CTO of Pulzze
Systems, will discuss how given the magnitude of this ecosystem, retrofitting
existing software and consumption models to stitch various components
together leads to sub-optimal solutions. Though current approaches and
methodologies create beneficial products, these do not necessarily transl... (more)
The Internet of Things (IoT) and Analytics at The Edge
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to change everything by enabling
“smart” environments (homes, cities, hospitals, schools, stores, etc.)
and smart products (cars, trucks, airplanes, trains, wind turbines,
lawnmowers, etc.). I recently wrote about the importance of moving beyond
“connected” to “smart” in a blog titled “Internet of Things:
Connected Does Not Equal Smart”. The article discusses the importance of
moving beyond just collecting the data, to transitioning to leveraging this
new wealth of IoT data to improve the decisions that these smart environments
and products need to make: to help these environments and products to
self-monitor, self-diagnose and eventually, self-direct.
But one of the key concepts in enabling this transition from connected to
smart is the ability to perform “analytics at the ... (more)
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Security of Smart Things
With the introduction of IoT and Smart Living in every aspect of our lives,
one question has become relevant: What are the security implications? To
answer this, first we have to look and explore the security models of the
technologies that IoT is founded upon.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Nevi Kaja, a Research Engineer at Ford Motor
Company, discussed some of the security challenges of the IoT infrastructure
and related how these aspects impact Smart Living. The material was delivered
interactively to engage with the audience and consisted of the following
three parts:
Smart Things, benefits and risks Security of things Data and privacy
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The Factory of the Future, Today: Case Study and Lessons Learned from
Deploying IoT
IoT offers a value of almost $4 trillion to the manufacturing industry
through platforms that can improve margins, optimize operations & drive high
performance work teams. By using IoT technologies as a foundation,
manufacturing customers are integrating worker safety with manufacturing
systems, driving deep collaboration and utilizing analytics to exponentially
increased per-unit margins.
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However, as Benoit Lheureux, the VP for Research at Gartner points out, "IoT
project implementers often underestimate the complexity of IoT integration
and overestimate the built-in integration capabilities of their IoT
platforms."
In his session at @ThingsExpo, RJ Mahadev, leader of the Global Manufacturing
... (more)
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nxFAST Platform - Enabling New Opportunities in IoT
The IoT industry is now at a crossroads, between the fast-paced innovation of
technologies and the pending mass adoption by global enterprises. The
complexity of combining rapidly evolving technologies and the need to
establish practices for market acceleration pose a strong challenge to global
enterprises as well as IoT vendors.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Clark Smith, senior product manager for
Numerex, discussed how Numerex, as an experienced, established IoT provider,
has embraced a new model to address this challenge - IoT as a Service.
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Speaker Bio
Clark Smith is a senior product manager for Numerex with nearly 20 years in
telecom, IoT, messaging, platform and cloud solutions, mobile commerce, C... (more)
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Your Data Center Is Doomed
The taxi industry never saw Uber coming. Startups are a threat to incumbents
like never before, and a major enabler for startups is that they are
instantly "cloud ready." If innovation moves at the pace of IT, then your
company is in trouble. Why? Because your data center will not keep up with
frenetic pace AWS, Microsoft and Google are rolling out new capabilities.
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In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture at
Turner, posited that disruption is inevitable for companies that refuse to
embrace the cloud and the culture shift that comes along with it.
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Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture at Turner, is responsible for the
global entertainment and news company's transformation into a cl... (more)
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Making the Case for the Governance of Internet of Things Data
IoT solutions exploit operational data generated by Internet-connected smart
"things" for the purpose of gaining operational insight and producing "better
outcomes" (for example, create new business models, eliminate unscheduled
maintenance, etc.). The explosive proliferation of IoT solutions will result
in an exponential growth in the volume of IoT data, precipitating significant
Information Governance issues: who owns the IoT data, what are the
rights/duties of IoT solutions adopters towards this data, how to deal with
Data Residency and Data Privacy issues, how to manage the lifecycle of IoT
data, etc.?
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Bassam Zarkout, founder of IGnPower, explored
these issues and pressed on organizat... (more)
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IoT Security Certifications
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Lachapelle, CEO of the Professional
Evaluation and Certification Board (PECB), provided an overview of various
initiatives to certify the security of connected devices and future trends in
ensuring public trust of IoT.
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Speaker Bio
Eric Lachapelle is the Chief Executive Officer of the Professional Evaluation
and Certification Board (PECB), an international certification body. His role
is to help companies and individuals to achieve professional, accredited and
worldwide recognized certification against various international standards.
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He also has extensive experience as a trainer and an educator in the fields
of Information Security, Risk Management and IT. Throughout his career, he
has wor... (more)
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