Mobile World Congress 2016 did meet expectations: a relentless show with people walking endlessly between halls for meetings, seeking opportunities, and listening to the latest announcements from the industry, write Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research, and Saverio Romeo the firm’s principal analyst. Over 100,000 visitors this year – the most ever – and the food at the show was even more atrocious than last year. How do they get away with it at such high prices? (more…)
March 8, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
According to Gartner, 6.4 billion connected things will be in use in 2016, up 30% from 2015. From the IoT connected fridge, Fujitsu’s recently announced connected cow and IoT applications that are changing the healthcare industry; IoT has never been a more exciting, dynamic and creative sector, writes Duncan Gooding, the director of enterprise at TalkTalk Business. (more…)
March 7, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Event date: April 28th 2016
Location: Virtual – in Cloud
IoT Slam 2016 is the world’s first and largest virtual IoT conference, covering Standards, Interoperability, Open Source, Integration, Security, Infrastructure, Business Models, Research, Innovation, Best Practices, Technology, Industry Implementation and Regulatory Compliance, in the world of IoT. (more…)
March 4, 2016
Posted by: IoT global network
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the biggest areas of hype and marketing spend within the IT sector. However, the technologies involved in IoT are becoming quietly widespread throughout the enterprise and public sector organisations and in a recent report, Gartner predicted that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use in 2016 – that’s 30% more than in 2015. Regardless of the hype, this is happening in every enterprise, writes Patrick McFadin, a Cassandra Evangelist at DataStax. (more…)
Posted by: George Malim
The Internet of things (IoT) has everyone giddy, writes Neil Chapman, the senior vice president and managing director for EMEA/International at ForgeRock. (more…)
February 22, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Digitisation is often characterised through a number of key technologies such as social, mobile, analytics, cloud and IoT. However, the real impact of digitisation is echoed in the corridors of small, medium and especially large enterprises through digital transformation (DX), writes Dr Setrag Khoshafian, the chief evangelist and vice president of BPM technology at Pegasystems. (more…)
February 17, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Our counting of IoT platforms has exceeded 300, writes Saverio Romeo, the principal analyst at Beecham Research. There are now more than 300 solutions that identify themselves as IoT platform offering a variety of services, from device management to data management passing by API management. (more…)
February 16, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Event day: May 10 – 12 2016
Santa Clara Convention Center, CA
Internet of Things World 2016 is the world’s largest and most comprehensive IoT event with over 10,000 attendees, 350+ industry thought leaders and 200+ exhibitors. With a focus this year on monetizing the IoT revolution through bringing together ecosystem-wide attendees, stakeholders and investors, Internet of Things World provides a unique opportunity to meet key players within the marketplace.
Posted by: IoT global network
Event date: March 23-24, 2016
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel London-West End
London, United Kingdom
In a growing IoT world, with 94% of companies already seeing a return on their IoT investments, the potential
benefits are clear. However, the path to a fully realised Industrial Internet is not without its challenges.
February 15, 2016
Posted by: IoT global network
The greatest importance for IoT within Africa as a whole is to provide critical information to its users, enabling them to make informed decisions and in a lot of cases save lives, writes Stephen Stewart, the regional director for Africa at Eseye, in the second part of his blog exploring IoT deployment in Africa. (more…)
February 10, 2016
Posted by: George Malim