Virtual Summit To Feature Open Source Networking and Edge
Looking for an opportunity to learn about the leading edge of Open Source community work? Check out the Open Networking & Edge Summit next week. Deep Dive demonstrations on 5G, Edge, IOT, O-RAN, AI, Cloud Native & CNFs covering most important enterprise, cloud...
The Philosophy of Bullsh*t and How To Avoid Stepping In It
Press releases are the lifeblood of journalist enterprise. These let editors and writer know when something new happens or a new product is launched at a company we are interested. For me, these were more important when I worked at magazines. Even now they help when I...
7 Tech Investments Critical To Building ‘Intelligent Factories’
Raghav Saghal, President of Nokia Enterprise, Nokia, wrote a blog post on the World Economic Forum site positing seven critical investments for post-Covid intelligent factories. The problem began with the Covid-19 outbreak disrupting supply chains and business...
Agility is the Key in IIoT
KC Liu, founder and CEO of Advantech, the Taiwan-based electronics company, has always been a sort of philosopher/businessperson. Over the 20 years or so that I’ve followed the company several books have added to my library thanks to him. The company continues to...
GeoTechnology and Manufacturing
I believe that trade has always been “international” in the sense of trading a commodity I have surplus for something I need that someone else has, who could also use my surplus. You can look at the Hebrew Bible for examples. Or documents from China of ancient times....
Universal Platform For The Edge
When there is a message for me on LinkedIn, it’s almost always a recruiter or SEO marketer trying to sell me something. So, there was a pleasant surprise the other day when it was a marketing person for a software company with a new take on the Edge, datacenters, and...
bp and Microsoft Form Strategic Energy Innovation Partnership
This is one of a steady stream of announcements coming my way about companies joining one or another of the cloud services. That is still big business. bp and Microsoft Corp. have announced that they have agreed to collaborate as strategic partners to further digital...
Podcast 213 Bright Ideas Beyond Automation
Did you ever get a bright idea for a new product or service? You might have even sketched it and written a product outline. Then you filed it. One day you noticed someone else had taken that same idea and created a billion-dollar company? Bright ideas and doing the...
Another Well Done Virtual Conference—Ignition Community Conference
Just to keep my perspective in balance, I attended a national soccer referee instructor virtual training. It was terrible. The presenters were not familiar with the technology and the presentation was incoherent. Therefore, what a joy to attend another well done...
An IIoT Solution for Smart Manufacturing
I doubt that there exists a useful pure Industrial Internet of Things (IioT) solution. Simply putting a number of devices on an IP network solves little. However, combining IIoT with data analytics and visualization offers useful solutions to managers and engineers....



