Within the telecom industry, views differ widely on the scale of the IoT investment opportunity
Asked at a recent conference when the "Internet of Things" will make a material difference to his company’s financial performance, the CEO of one major telecom operator replied: “Not in my tenure.”
That...
Awareness and intent is growing around IIoT manufacturing, but companies have yet to see significant impact
The 2016 edition of the global MESA international and LNS Research survey on "Metrics that Matter in the manufacturing world” shows the industrial "Internet of Things" manufacturing sector’s take on IoT...
CommScope tapped for Sprint small cell deployment
Sprint has chosen CommScope for a significant indoor small cell deployment designed to support LTE and Wi-Fi. The carrier plans to use CommScope's S1000 small cell, one of the assets CommScope acquired when it bought small cell specialist...
Awareness and intent is growing around IIoT manufacturing but companies have yet to see significant impact
The 2016 edition of the global MESA International and LNS Research survey on ”Metrics that Matter in the manufacturing world” shows that the IIoT manufacturing sector’s take on IoT is changing...
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, emphasizes artificial intelligence, machine learning
Google is investing big in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which will set the stage for a transition from mobile-first to AI-first as devices fade away, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a recent post to...
I just returned from the well-organized and well-attended Wi-Fi Now conference in Washington, D.C. Topics at the three-day conference included enterprise applications, home security, innovations, leadership, carriers, spectrum, LTE-U, the "Uber-ization" of the wireless industry and the disruptive role of Wi-Fi. There was less talk about...
Asset efficiency is important to a manufacturer's bottomline
A recent study on the maturity of asset efficiency practices from Infosys and the Institute for Industrial Management (FIR) at Aachen University revealed that 85% of manufacturing companies globally are aware of asset efficiency, but only 15%...
Increase productivity with enterprise asset management cloud and data analytics tools
Companies of all sorts, particularly those working in physical plant-intensive markets, need to keep up with their equipment to understand maintenance needs, optimize process efficiency and, ideally, get more productivity for less money.
The practice...
Dell’Oro Group looks at challenges facing small cells as they try to garner scale in the consumer and enterprise space
At a high level, small cells have moved from the hype phase to reality. The Dell’Oro Group estimates the nonresidential small cell market approached 300,000...
MaaS360 by IBM provides 6 tips for the decommission of bring-your-own-devices in the enterprise
In the world of bring-your-own-device policies, users may run through multiple devices per year – a departure from the typical 18-month or two-year upgrade for the general population. As BYOD grows,...
Essentially since the advent of health care, diagnosis has been dependent on a direct, face-to-face interaction between the patient and the doctor. But now, as robust, high-capacity mobile networks transmit insightful data generated by sensors and other remote monitors comprising the "Internet of Things,"...
Enterprise and businesses are at the cusp of a major transformation, a new wave of industrialization based on IoT
IoT will involve the intersection of powerful supply and demand factors that will cause a tremendous amount of change and value creation. Beyond the economic benefits of business use-cases...
In the age of cloud computing and borderless workflow, enterprise IT is under going a seismic shift to accommodate the needs of the modern worker while enabling business-wide flexibility and responsiveness through technology integration.
In a new report from Oracle titled "The Era I Enterprise: Ready...
Flexibility of cloud gets carriers 5G ready, eases enterprise digitalization
The complexity of ultimate 5G networks, often described as a network of network, will acquire a new approach on the radio access side, according to Huawei officials presenting during the firm's annual Huawei Global Analyst...
Cloud-as-a-service trades capital hardware, software and licensing costs into an operating expense
Faced with the ever-increasing need to cut costs and boost revenues, many enterprises are turning to digitalization strategies focused on using cloud computing platforms and attendant data analytics functions to gain efficiency and...
Essentially since the advent of health care, diagnosis has been dependent on a direct, face-to-face interaction between the patient and the doctor. But now, as robust, high-capacity mobile networks transmit insightful data generated by sensors and other remote monitors comprising the "Internet of Things,"...
Wi-Fi interoperability, enterprise sales and costs could slow small cell adoption
The market for the coverage and capacity benefits of a small cell deployment are there, but enterprise adoption is a key challenge facing mobile carriers, according to an opinion column by Peter Thornycroft of...
Compass Intelligence notes chat and messaging platforms are set to explode across the enterprise space
The worldwide enterprise chat and messaging market will reach $1.9 billion by 2019, driven mainly by a changing structure of today’s workforce and the need to communicate effectively and immediately,...
Wi-Fi is becoming almost as critical to business as power and telephony, and some young companies are even forgoing wired connections altogether in favor of "wireless-first" workplaces. Even in older, well-established companies, Wi-Fi is changing the workflow in important ways.
1. Worker productivity is shifting.
Today...
Brocade Communications has agreed to buy Ruckus Wireless in a deal worth $1.2 billion, which the companies say will create a "pure-play networking company." The goal is to deliver products and solutions that span the continuum from the heart of the data center to...
Enterprises and businesses are at the cusp of a major transformation, a new wave of industrialization based on IoT
IoT will involve the intersection of powerful supply and demand factors that will cause a tremendous amount of change and value creation. Beyond the economic benefits of business use-cases...
Verizon Enterprise Solutions hack claims info on 1.5M customers, data offered up for $100,000
Verizon Communications’ Enterprise Solutions division was hit by a data breach that reportedly included information on 1.5 million customers, which ended up for sale online.
According to a report from Krebs on...
Retail and logistics industries most aggressive
A survey of more than 500 hundred global companies across 17 industries found more than one-third either have deployed small cells or plan to do so this year. The research, conducted by Nemertes for the Small Cell Forum, showed...
IBM says continuous engineering is key to IoT
IBM Watson, a data-analyzing computer platform that can answer open domain questions, first became famous in 2011 when it beat two "Jeopardy" champions, and has since involved into medical use and more recently the "Internet of Things."
The...