A New Theory of Intelligence
Happy Monday. I am attending four virtual conferences this week. This morning begins with three previews of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Discover 2021. I will be busy with influencer events for several days. Later this afternoon I'll attend the technology preview of the...
Tenable Teams with Deloitte to Secure Fortune 500 Manufacturing Environments
Security of networks and compute platforms will continue to be news for quite some time. After all, Putin didn’t agree to terminate all hacking emanating from Russia (surprise). But according to my firewall statistics, I’m hacked from a large number of geographic...
Betacom Announces Managed Private 5G Network
Last year’s edition of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) was filled with hype about AT&T and 5G network. Pundits received 5G-enabled iPhones and were less than impressed with the speed boost. This year’s WWDC was devoid of 5G hype. My response to the...
Claroty Secures $140 Million Financial Round
Today must be cybersecurity day. I just wrote about open-source Software Bills of Materials, and now comes a venture funding announcement. Several years ago, a number of new cybersecurity companies sprang up. Most had some sort of tie to former Israeli army security...
Linux Foundation Launches Research, Training, and Tools to Advance Adoption of Software Bill of Materials
My latest podcast topic contains thoughts on open source. This announcement from The Linux Foundation merges open source with the latest concerns about cybersecurity with several product launches regarding the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). The industry continues...
Podcast 227 Open and Interoperable
Podcast 227 Open and Interoperable Imagine laying railroad tracks west from the US east coast and meeting up with a crew laying railroad tracks from the west coast only to discover that the width between the rails was different. Standards make a huge difference. Open...
Finally a Fieldbus Convergence, Ethernet-APL Technology Now Available
Process manufacturing grew more and more complex, as well as more and more digital. Engineers needed better ways to communicate with field devices and instrumentation from control and operator stations. “We need a fieldbus,” they said. Unfortunately, they didn’t...
Industrial Controls Market Partnership of Process Automation and Cybersecurity
Partnerships remain crucial for success in today’s industrial market. This seems especially true for cybersecurity firms who need ways into integrating security into operational technology. This is the story of one such partnership. Horizon Controls Group, a...
Proprietary Software Is An Evolutionary DeadEnd
The thing that gets everyone working together, each person doing their own self-interested thing, makes the whole better. This was Matt Mullenweg, WordPress founder and CEO of Automattic, on his podcast Distributed discussing distribute work and open source software....
Reshoring Manufacturing Hitting New Highs, Adding Jobs and Economic Development
Most things in nature live in tension. For example, take business. As companies grow larger, their need for growth requires leaving behind an outlook on a city, region, and even country. Managers see a need for a global presence in order to meet financial objectives....
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