HPE Supports IT Scaling for the Newly Remote Workforce
I’m getting a ton of press releases regarding a company’s response to the current situation. Many are just a way of using current medical terms as “eye candy” to attract attention to an otherwise mundane announcement. This list of actions byHewlett Packard Enterprise...
Working from Home—Watch Your Relationships
My wife looked up from dinner last evening and blurted, "I wonder if there will be a spike in babies born. Or, divorces filed." Give me five seconds and I can list at least a half-dozen reasons why there won't be a a baby in our new house in December or January. She...
Integrating Open Technologies and Products
Open technologies and open standards provide many benefits. Installing an open, interoperable system constructed from a variety of suppliers does entail challenges of integration. Proponents of a single-vendor solution claim that products from one source will work...
HPE and Industry Partners Simplify 5G Rollout
5G network reality draws closer and closer. Unlike other communication technology standards that seem to have hung up in committee, 5G has some momentum. Not say that there aren’t some political headwinds to get beyond before widespread adoption. 5G offers many very...
Acquisitions Highlight Industrial News Last Week
Companies were still completing business last week. Many things have slowed down, but some business still needed to be wrapped up. Hitachi Vantara continues to build out DataOps and its data emphasis. Meanwhile, AVEVA continues a trend begun with the thought leaders...
Things Will Never Be The Same
There is no escaping discussing the effects of the Coronavirus / covid-19 / SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease. Almost everyone in the world is affected in one way or another. The meme of the week seems to be working from home advice. The Rework podcast lately is a...
OTOH Don’t Get Ready to Travel Too Soon
Yesterday's notice was from an IoT event in Barcelona in October. Maybe the situation in Spain will be better by then. On the other hand, a message just came in from the Deutsche Messe people announcing that Hannover Messe will not be held in 2020. The city of...
Getting Ready to Travel?
With all this staying home protocol going on, are you missing the travel scene? Some pundits are doing a linear extrapolation from a limited data set and predicting a "new normal" where all conferences are virtual. Have you heard that before? October might be a good...
Industrial Leadership—Beyond The Buzz
Have you heard “digital transformation” until your ears ring? Every supplier, every analyst, every consultant promises to take you on the digital transformation journey. Pause and reflect. Aren’t you already using many digital tools in your business and production...
Inductive Automation Expands Again, Buys Land for Two New Buildings
How about some good news? Based on many conversations within the industry, I’ve longed pegged Inductive Automation as a growth company among a field perhaps not so active. Here is more evidence of solid growth for the company—and most likely also for this type of...
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