Internet Of Things
C3 IoT and Intel join hands on new AI and IoT platform
C3 IoT, a digital transformation software provider, has joined hands with Intel on an artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) partnership. The companies together aim to provide on-premise, hybrid and edge-based AI and IoT applications to large commercial and public-sector organizations. The joint solution is an optimized AI software and hardware platform called C3 IoT AI Appliance powered by Intel AI. It is a full-stack turnkey system which can be used to develop and train deep learning and several machine learning models. C3 said that the joint solution is built on C3 IoT Platform which is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to develop, operate and scale AI and IoT applications. Further, the appliance comes pre-installed with Microsoft Azure Stack. “With Intel’s powerful engi...
Microsoft Build 2018: Know top 8 announcements in just 2 minutes
Microsoft Build 2018, the annual developer event, brought together around 6000 developers, customers and partners in Seattle. Microsoft made a broad range of announcements at the Build conference, which were focused on artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), and bringing the algorithmic computing to edge devices. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that computing has reached everywhere, and is embedded in places, things, homes, and cities. The world has become a computer itself. And if the world is a computer, the developers are a new seat of power. Microsoft shipped around 650 new capabilities to Azure in last one year. At its developer conference, the company introduced 70 more capabilities to Azure. Before making the major announcements at Microsoft Build 2018, Satya Nadell...
Microsoft, VMware and Dell build a joint IoT solution to accelerate IoT adoption
Microsoft, VMware and Dell are joining forces to offer a mutually designed IoT (internet of things) solution, that can accelerate the adoption of IoT services. To design the joint solution, the companies will integrate their existing IoT solutions— Microsoft Azure IoT Edge, VMware Pulse IoT Center, and Dell Edge Gateways. The aim of the new IoT solution is to centralize the monitoring and security from devices to cloud, and streamline the management of connected devices. It will be specifically useful for the customers who deploy IoT for a number of circumstances such as supply chain visibility, and predictive maintenance. Microsoft Azure IoT Edge solution focuses on bringing cloud intelligence to the edge, allowing devices to leverage the cloud and machine learning at scale. “When b...
89% of organizations have either adopted or have plans to adopt a digital-first strategy: State of Digital Business Transformation 2018
Digital transformation has become a core part of the business strategies in organizations of all sizes. The adoption of digital technologies helps the organizations to deliver the customers and employees a good digital business experience. To stay ahead in today’s world of competition, the organizations need to deliver custom apps at the speed of ideas. To better understand what being a ‘digital business’ means to organizations, IDG conducted a survey of more than 700 IT business management and decision makers. According to IDG’s State of Digital Business Transformation 2018 report, 89% of the organizations have either adopted or have plans to adopt a digital-first strategy. What is the meaning of digital business for organizations? 52% of the respondents said that digital business meant e...
51% IT pros cite Cloud/hybrid IT top priority for digital transformation: SolarWinds report
Cloud computing continues its dominance in the IT agenda of the organizations, with 51% of the IT professionals citing cloud/hybrid IT as one of the top-five technology priorities over the next five years, as per the IT Trends Report 2018 by SolarWinds. SolarWinds surveyed around 800 IT professionals globally to explore the priorities of existing as well as emerging technologies in their IT strategies. Top technologies for IT strategy According to the report, cloud/hybrid IT (95%) was voted as the most important technology among the top-five technologies critical to their IT agenda today. Automation (86%), big data analytics (75%), internet of things (IoT), and containers (49%), were the other priority technologies for IT strategies today. The reason behind the dominance of cloud/hybrid IT...
Microsoft teams up with C3 IoT to help enterprises develop AI and IoT applications
Microsoft has teamed up with digital transformation software provider C3 IoT, to create a new solution which helps enterprises to easily develop AI and IoT applications. The joint solution will be created using the C3 IoT Platform, a comprehensive platform as a service (PaaS), and will be fully integrated with a set of Azure services, including Azure IoT Hub, Azure Machine Learning, big data and advanced analytics solutions. The C3 IoT Platform is a low-code platform which allows rapid development of big data, predictive analysis, AI and machine learning, and IoT applications. “With this partnership, two market leaders are joining forces to drive digital transformation at the world’s leading organizations,” said Thomas M. Siebel, C3 IoT CEO. “Combining the market reach of Microsoft, the am...
Know why Microsoft is planning to invest $5 billion in IoT in next four years
Microsoft is planning to invest over $5 billion in the Internet of Things (IoT) over the next four years with the goal to drive business and world transformation with connected solutions. IoT solutions provide operational efficiencies, but Microsoft’s investment in IoT underscores the fact that the impact of IoT extends well beyond commercial sphere and can better the human lives by fulfilling basic life needs like predictive healthcare, safety while on job or travelling, electricity and more. “A.T. Kearney predicts IoT will lead to a $1.9 trillion productivity increase and $177 billion in reduced costs by 2020. This effect will be pervasive, from connected homes and cars to manufacturers to smart cities and utilities—and everything in between.” – Microsoft blog With the investment, Micros...
Intel sells its embedded software unit Wind River to TPG
Intel has signed an agreement to sell Wind River Systems, its embedded software unit, to investment firm TPG. With the deal, Wind River will now be established as an independent software company to drive digital transformation. Jim Douglas, the president of Wind River, and his existing executive management team will continue to lead the company following the closure of transaction in second quarter of 2018. Wind River is a prominent player in the industrial internet of things (IIoT). It delivers next generation software which runs the computing systems of modern infrastructures, including medical devices, aircraft, railway, automobiles, manufacturing plants, and communication networks. The products and solutions of Wind River help developers build smart connected devices, sensors and gatew...
Indian market rife with IoT, mobility opportunities and presents huge potential for 5G technology – 2nd IoT India Expo 2018
The 26th Convergence India Expo, co-located with the 2nd Internet of Things (IoT) India 2018 Expo was successfully conducted this year too, recording a footfall of over 20,000 visitors and 684 participants from across 28 countries. The three-day conference (between 07th to 09th March 2018) brought the key professionals and decision makers from the IT, Automotive, Building and Construction, Government, Healthcare, Infrastructure and Urban Development, Logistics, Legal & Insurance, Manufacturing, Media & Broadcast, Retail, Security, System Integrators, Transportation and other industries together. The event, organized at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi was spread in 25,000 sqm of exhibit space, witnessed 30 conference sessions and 6 workshops with over 180 speakers, comprised insightful se...
Cyberattacks to increase in 2018 on IoT and mobile devices: SonicWall Cyber Threat Report
Malware attacks increased from 7.87 billion in 2016 to 9.32 billion in 2017, while ransomware attacks decreased from 638 million to 184 million, according to SonicWall Cyber Threat Report. SonicWall, the cybersecurity solutions provider, revealed the findings, intelligence, analysis, and research about annual threats from SonicWall Capture Labs in the report. Reduction in Ransomware attacks Despite the major ransomware attacks in 2017 like WannaCry attack that crippled enterprises across 150 countries, the total ransomware attacks in 2017 were 71% less compared to 2016. However, data from Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) revealed that cybercriminals shifted their focus towards innovation, creating unique variants of attack. Among every 250 ransomware-attacks, there was one never-se...
Cisco’s NB-IoT Platform to make it profitable for companies to deliver IoT services via low-cost devices
At Mobile World Congress (MWC), Cisco announced the global availability of Cisco Jasper Control Center for NB-IoT. Reportedly the first commercially available NB-IoT platform, it will enable enterprises to manage both cellular and NB-IoT devices when used along with Cisco Jasper Control Center IoT connectivity platform. The Cisco Jasper Control Center is an automated connectivity management platform which helps enterprises to manage a large number of low power and low usage connected devices. With control over different types of connected devices, it lets one manage low-power wide area networks (NB-IoT, LTE-M), as well as cellular ones (2G, 3G, LTE). NB-IoT (Narrow Band IoT) is a 3GPP (3rd generation partnership project) standard for narrowband LPWAN (low power wide area networking) radio ...
Juniper Networks and The Satellite Applications Catapult Build 5G Testbed for Mobile and IoT Services for UK Critical Infrastructure
Juniper Networks, an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced that The Satellite Applications Catapult, a UK-based technology and innovation company, has selected Juniper to construct a secure, end-to-end network infrastructure in support of their 5G testbed. Specifically, the testbed creates a secure, network infrastructure to foster the innovative use of 5G, providing ubiquitous connectivity across terrestrial and satellite communication in support of mission critical applications including use cases for IoT, autonomous systems and e-health initiatives. The 5G testbed is due to be officially opened in April 2018 and brings together leading academics and key industry partners towards a shared vision to help define and develop the next-generation of terre...
