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....
Claroty Unveils Zero-Infrastructure Cybersecurity Solution to Protect Industrial Enterprises
Finally, a cybersecurity news release that doesn’t try to jump on the latest cyber breach bandwagon. Interesting advance for cyber security. New Claroty Edge and enhanced Continuous Threat Detection give customers faster, easier, more-flexible paths to achieve wide...
Qualcomm Debuts Roster of IoT Solutions to Drive Global Digital Transformation Across Industries
Qualcomm is in release mode these days—especially concerning chips for 5G and IoT. Last month was one new chipset. This month—four more. These will power many devices for your IoT / digital transformation initiatives. Next-generation solutions deliver advanced Edge-AI...
Whirlpool Migrates SAP Systems to Google Cloud for Sustainable Growth
Are you using a cloud service, yet? The competition among the various big-company cloud services working with industrial companies is becoming fierce. Here is a win for Google Cloud—one that I’ve only seen active recently. Whoever thought that these would grow to be...
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