Hit Refresh The Remaking Microsoft
Turning a giant organization that has the great inertia can be likened to turning a large ship at sea. It takes great force and a lot of space. Such is the task of remaking Microsoft. Satya Nadella has been CEO of Microsoft replacing the combative Steve Ballmer more...
Dell Places $1 Billion Bet on Internet of Things
While at the Dell IQT kick off event in New York last month, I learned more about the breadth of Dell’s thinking about the Internet of Things. It began with morphing embedded computer as a gateway (with memory and processing power and multiple connections)., Added...
Data, Devices, Visualization Headline Iconics User Event
Gathering data, visualization on many devices and screens, and connecting with standards including OPC UA and BACnet attracted a crowd of developers and users to the Iconics World Wide Customer Conference this week in Providence, RI. “Connected Intelligence is our...
Testbeds provide real-world IIoT deliverables
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has published the first results of its testbed program. A major focus and activity of the IIC and its members, testbeds provide platforms for IIC member organizations to think through innovations, test new applications,...
Rockwell and Emerson Head Merger and Acquisition News
I was putting together this piece on mergers and acquisitions when I received word that Emerson had been in conversations to acquire Rockwell Automation. Final price was $27.5 billion. That wasn’t sweet enough. The Rockwell board turned it down. Note: I feel...
GE “All In” on Digital Strategy
GE Digital continues to build out its platform and ecosystem of applications while new GE CEO John Flannery confirmed his commitment to the digitalization strategy begun under his predecessor. The sixth Minds + Machines conference featured about 90% growth in...
Are We At The End of Consumption-based IIoT Pricing
Interesting that just as I was planning my trip to San Francisco to attend GE Digital’s Minds + Machines conference a publicist representing Simon-Kucher, a German-based pricing model consultancy, pitched me an interview with Adam Echter, Senior Director. First, some...
Industrial IoT Analytics Framework Technical Report
Just when I was saying last week that the The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) had been very busy, I interviewed Eric and Wael about this newly published the IIC Industrial IoT Analytics Framework Technical Report (IIAF). It is the first IoT-industry technical...
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Simplifies and Accelerates Network Deployments
Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Remember several years ago when Amazon started selling space and time on its servers? And people thought they were crazy. Is this a business? Well, as the old vaudeville comedian and TV pioneer Jimmy Durante used to say, “Everybody wants...
Wages and the Future of Workers
Steve Levine writing in Axios Future of Work notes: For many years, the economic rules were supported by both common sense and the data: When unemployment falls, wages rise soon after. But since the turn of the century and before, that relationship has broken down...
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