Siemens Unveils Innovations in industrial AI and Digital Twin Technology at CES 2025
While competitors seem to be either retrenching or maintaining the status quo, Siemens used a large presence at the CES show in Las Vegas to promote its invigorated presence. Siemens brings Industrial AI to the Edge of the factory floor for secure access to large...
How Ignition Fits Within the Purdue Model
I have written several times over the past decade about how the Industrial Internet of Things and such hardware advancements as the Edge have blown up the Purdue Pyramid Model of industrial Architecture. Especially as an information model. Rather than a static...
Leaseweb Launches Highly Efficient Virtual Private Server Infrastructure
Technology advancements and innovations plus applications solving bigger problems have led my work, research, and writing from virtual PLCs to virtual servers. That’s why I have loved technology ever since I was 14 and soldering resistors, capacitors, and coils into...
Provide Help for Californians
Had I lived in California, I most likely would not have voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger for Governor. I’ve since experienced a different side of the Governator. He sent an email a couple of years ago touting the “positive side of the Internet.” I subscribed to the...
Qualcomm Aware Unveils New Services to Drive Connected Intelligence
CES goes on this week in Las Vegas. Qualcomm is there; I am not. But…I have news. I’ve also heard that Qualcomm is quietly taking chunks of business from Nvidia. Not sure about that, but the company does put out some quality chips. This news regards Qualcomm Aware, a...
Media Malfunctions
I’ve read Om Malik’s writing on technology for probably 20 years. I remember him at the old Red Herring magazine and the online news source GigaOm. Lately he’s taken a broader outlook. I left manufacturing and marketing to join the trade media a little more than 25...
Other World Computing (OWC) and Hedge Partner to Deliver LTO Archiving Experience
Computing hardware has been part of my working life and study since the late 1970s. We incorporated PCs into automated assembly systems in the mid-1980s. Recently a publicist I’ve known for years signed on a new client that brings me back into computing technology...
Other World Computing (OWC) Launches ThunderBlade X12 and Active Optical Cable
Computing hardware has been part of my working life and study since the late 1970s. We incorporated PCs into automated assembly systems in the mid-1980s. Recently a publicist I’ve known for years signed on a new client that brings me back into computing technology...
Cyber Defense Company Acquisition
OPSWAT Acquires Leader in Advanced Data Diode Technology to Strengthen Cyber Defenses for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity was a top topic for the past couple of years. I anticipate it being a top topic for the foreseeable future. One sub-trend has been...
Dragos Releases 3rd Quarter 2024 Industrial Ransomware Report
Two topics dominated my inbox this year. AI, of course, was one. Everything cybersecurity was the other. Mostly the various cybersecurity suppliers released a variety of reports and surveys. This report comes from Dragos—the OT Cyber Threat Intelligence Report. I’ll...