Nokia CTO and Bell Labs President Marcus Weldon discusses the network of the future
PHILADELPHIA--In a part keynote address, part physics lecture at the SCTE/IBSE Cable Tec Expo, Marcus Weldon of Nokia Bell Labs discussed how future networks will need to be highly distributed to...
Health care provider partners with ThingWorx for machine learning
An unnamed regionally-managed health care provider partnered with ThingWorx's machine learning platform to detect patterns in data that would lead to better patient care and reduce costly readmissions for patients with ischemic heart disease, according to...
Chris Swearingen, manager of SenseAware at FedEx, gave a talk titled How Innovations in Manufacturing and Supply Chain are Redefining Mobility and Reshaping the Globe, at Bosch Connected World in Chicago. He spoke about the company's "internet of things" product SenseAware and how it is driving supply chain optimization.
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A smart factory for spoons
A company out of Belgium that designs and manufactures food packaging including plastic cups, mugs, plates and cutlery, deSter created a smart factory to cut cycle times, according to a case study provided by IoT-One.
Its products are brought to the market as...
Agriculture is evolving
Smart farming and precision agriculture have become important parts of modern agricultural practices. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), by 2050, food production may increase 70% to feed 9.6 billion people. Food and agricultural companies are...
Cisco fog applications provide factory maintenance
Machine tool provider Mazak teamed with Cisco in a move to increase its manufacturing line availability and improve machine utilization through the use of fog applications. If you need a refresher on what fog computing is all about, our article Fog...
Continuing to build out its global infrastructure, while leveraging hardware designs compiled via the Open Compute Project, Facebook announced it will break ground in October on its seventh data center.
The new facility is said to be "one of the most advanced, energy-efficient data centers...
Use cases for analyzing data
ATLANTA – Ron Bodkin, founder and president of Think Big, hosted a panel titled "The key to unlocking value in the internet of things? Managing data!" at the Teradata PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta, and emphasized that a variety of data...
IoT accelerators focus on deployment and maintenance
ATLANTA – Teradata highlighted the company’s late August release of four accelerators built to speed up the transformation of "internet of things" data to actionable insight during its PARTNERS 2016 conference. The company’s “Analytics of Things Accelerators” were created from...
In our article, Cloud computing 101: Advantages and disadvantages, we defined cloud computing and discussed some of the benefits and challenges that come with transitioning from local servers to the cloud. We also took a look at the top 5 industrial IoT companies, excluding...
Tech companies have been storing data and running programs on local hard drives for decades. But cloud computing, a less expensive, more scalable way of storing and analyzing data, has taken center stage in recent years. It is a key element providing the necessary platform...
Chinese market accounted for more than 58% of ZTE total revenue in the period
Chinese vendor ZTE recorded operating revenue of 47.76 billion yuan ($7.17 billion) in the first half of 2016, climbing 4.05% over the same period the previous year.
ZTE reported a domestic operating revenue...
Cloud computing and big data analytics will usher in artificial intelligence era
This week Intel announced a "definitive agreement" to buy San Diego-based Nervana Systems, which specializes in deep learning, an artificial intelligence technique meant to create machine learning that mirrors human thought.
This is the...
Control and savings with building management systems
Building management systems are the backbone of smart buildings. They are the systems put in place to allow building owners and tenants to monitor, maintain and manage the mechanical, electrical and electromechanical functions within a structure. BMS deployment usually...
IBM operates a similar innovation facility in Abu Dhabi
IBM has opened a new industry and innovation center in the United Arab Emirates to offer clients access to advanced cloud and cognitive technologies.
The new facility located in Dubai is the second IBM innovation center in...
Oracle said today that it will spend more than $9 billion to buy "the very first cloud company." NetSuite, led by a former Oracle marketing executive, says it has been working on cloud technologies for 18 years.
NetSuite reported $741 million in revenue last year....
Service providers are taking their data centers to the edge and transforming data center interconnect along the way
At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, mobile edge computing was front and center in many presentations and company messages. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute...
Huawei generated revenue of $36.7B during the period
Chinese information and communications technology solutions provider Huawei generated sales of 245.5 billion yuan ($36.7 billion) in the first half of 2016, representing an increase of 40% compared to the same period in 2015, the vendor said in...
In reporting financials from its second fiscal quarter, Microsoft got a big boost from its cloud computing business as its Azure platform and service revenue grew 140% year-over-year.
“Businesses everywhere are using the Microsoft Cloud as their digital platform to drive their ambitious transformation agendas,”...
Fujitsu plans to install the Oracle Cloud platform in its Japanese data centers
Fujitsu and Oracle Corporation Japan signed a strategic alliance to deliver cloud platform and services to customers in Japan and their subsidiaries around the world.
Under terms of the agreement, Oracle Cloud application...
Cloud RAN solution to be deployed by operators in Q2 2017
SHANGHAI – Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation launched its newest generation radio access network solution – ZTE Cloud RAN – during Mobile World Congress Shanghai.
Designed to reconstruct the wireless network based on the cloud processing platform,...
Mobile edge computing is seen as an important part to alleviating network congestion and improving cloud-based applications for both current 4G and future 5G networks. In the approach to 5G commercialization, Ericsson and Vodafone conducted a 5G mobile edge proof of concept, connecting separate...
In a move intended to bolster its end-to-end cloud security portfolio, Cisco this week agreed to acquire Massachusetts-based security startup CloudLock for $293 million.
CloudLock uses an API-based approach to provide cloud access security broker tech geared toward enterprise-grade security and analytics related to cloud...
CEO discusses Huawei efforts around network operations and maintenance, cloudification
During an event in Shanghai, Huawei's rotating CEO Eric Xu said in the near-term future, by 2025, technology will have advanced to create mobile networks "beyond our imagination."
Xu was speaking to mobile operator representatives during...
