The cloud deal aims to connect over 3,500 sites across 37 markets
British Telecom signed a contract with global human resources services provider Randstad Group to deploy a new global information technology infrastructure providing cloud connectivity to more than 3,500 sites across 37 countries in Europe, North...
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Many promises are being made for real-time communication (RTC) services in the Cloud. Unfortunately, service providers are realizing that transitioning RTC services to Cloud architectures is not as simple as slideware suggests. In order to be successful, service...
As real-time communications (RTC) and session border controllers (SBCs) migrate to the Cloud, it is important to understand the differences between network transformation myths and realities. There are many promises being made for what a virtual SBC can deliver in a cloud deployment model....
Digital transformation is a trending buzzword in the information technology industry. While somewhat nebulous, it speaks to the need for generally risk-adverse, slow-moving enterprises to embrace things like the app economy, cloudification and software-based virtualization of business process. Factor in the threat from highly focused startups...
The internet of beans
Thumb-sized "plastic beans" are being filled with sensors and tossed into grain bins and storage facilities for precision agriculture, getting rid of the need for handheld devices or elaborate moisture monitoring systems, according to an article on Farm Journal's AGWeb.
The sensor pods...
A problem with corn production, and a precision agriculture solution
Italy is one of the top maize grain producers in the European Union alongside France, Germany, Hungary and Spain, producing more than 7 million tons of corn in an area of 700,000 hectares in 2015, according to EuroStat...
Bosch hosted its Bosch Connected World conference in Chicago last week where it showed off its position within the industrial "internet of things." The event was highlighted by news that Bosch would team with GE to bring interoperability between the two manufacturers' IoT platforms....
Environmental caveat: e-waste
New technologies are fighting an uphill battle to reduce the environmental decay from century-old processes that are both inefficient and wasteful. The "internet of things" has the potential to reduce emissions from those processes and create a truly green earth. But while green use...
Controlling the liquid streets of the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, waterways, small inland harbors and canals are used by citizens in their daily routines. Each city has a water infrastructure with high-density shipping traffic. Municipalities, provinces and other potential canal authorities such as the Ministry of...
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CZXPFM1KUc
Supply...
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...
