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How To Protect Healthcare IoT Devices In A Zero Trust World

By Louis Columbus on November 2, 2018

  Healthcare executives say privacy concerns (59%), legacy system integration (55%) and security concerns (54%) are the top three barriers holding back Internet of Things (IoT) adoption in healthcare organizations today according to the Accenture 2017 Internet of Health Things Survey. Over 100M healthcare IoT devices are installed worldwide today, growing to 161M by 2020, attaining […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Accenture, Capgemini, Centrify, Healthcare, Internet of Things (IoT), IoT, Louis Columbus' blog, Zero Trust Privilege, Zero Trust Security

IBM acquires Weather.com for Cloud, AI (aaS), and IoT

IBM acquires Weather.com for Cloud, AI (aaS), and IoT

By Tom Raftery on February 2, 2016

IBM has announced the completion of the acquisition The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web-properties, weather.com, Weather Underground, The Weather Company brand and WSI, its global business-to-business brand. At first blush this may not seem like an obvious pairing, but the Weather Company’s products are not just their free apps for your smartphone, they […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, ibm, Internet of Things, IoT, Watson, watson IoT cloud

The future of electric utilities – change and disruption ahead

The future of electric utilities – change and disruption ahead

By Tom Raftery on November 24, 2015

The utilities industry has typically been change averse, and often for good reasons, but with the technological advances of the past few years, the low carbon imperative, and pressure from customers, utilities are going to have to figure out how to disrupt their business, or they will themselves be disrupted. I gave the opening keynote […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged demand side management, disruption, electricity, Electricity 2.0, IoT, solar, utilities

GreenTouch release tools and technologies to significantly reduce mobile networks energy consumption

GreenTouch release tools and technologies to significantly reduce mobile networks energy consumption

By Tom Raftery on June 19, 2015

Mobile industry consortium GreenTouch today released tools and technologies which, they claim, have the potential to reduce the energy consumption of communication networks by 98% The world is now awash with mobile phones. According to Ericsson’s June 2015 mobility report [PDF warning], the total number of mobile subscriptions globally in Q1 2015 was 7.2 billion. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged cellular, communications networks, Electricity 2.0, energy efficiency, greentouch, Internet of Things, IoT, mobile, mobile networks, Wireless

IBM’s InterConnect 2015, the good and the not so good

IBM’s InterConnect 2015, the good and the not so good

By Tom Raftery on March 5, 2015

IBM invited me to attend their Cloud and Mobile Conference InterConnect 2015 last week. Because of what IBM has done globally to help people get access to safe water, to help with solar forecasting, and to help deliver better outcomes in healthcare, for example, I tend to have a very positive attitude towards IBM. So […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged apple, Cloud, cloud emissions, Electricity 2.0, greenqloud, ibm, ibminterconnect, interconnect, Internet of Things, IoT, smart grids, SoftLayer, utilities

Going Up the IoT Stack with ThingMonk and The Business of IOT, Shoreditch London Dec 2,3,4

Going Up the IoT Stack with ThingMonk and The Business of IOT, Shoreditch London Dec 2,3,4

By James Governor on November 23, 2014

Never knowingly under-ambitious I decided to build on the success of Thingmonk last year, but adding another day, dedicated to business issues and industry transformations led by the sensor/Big Data/automation IoT revolution. So now we have a hackday, followed by a day of technical talks, followed by a day of talks for people that normally […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged conferences, David Hasselhoff, IoT, Kitt, Knight Rider, London

The coming together of the Internet of Things and Smart Grids

The coming together of the Internet of Things and Smart Grids

By Tom Raftery on November 21, 2014

I was asked to speak at the recent SAP TechEd && d-code (yes, two ampersands, that’s the branding, not a typo) on the topic of the Internet of Things and Energy. This is a curious space, because, while the Internet of Things is all the rage now in the consumer space, the New Black, as […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged demand response, electricity, Electricity 2.0, Internet of Things, IoT, renewables, smart grid, utilities

It’s the Real (Internet of) Things- Software is Drinking The World.

It’s the Real (Internet of) Things- Software is Drinking The World.

By James Governor on November 6, 2014

I recently had a jam-packed week in San Francisco, attending Dreamforce and running IOT at Scale. For the one or two of you that weren’t actually at Dreamforce, it’s kind of hard to sum up a conference with so much stuff going on. With that in mind it’s probably best not to try. I will […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #df14, Cloud, data, IoT

Technology for Good – episode thirty four with Salesforce’s John Tascheck

Technology for Good – episode thirty four with Salesforce’s John Tascheck

By Tom Raftery on October 19, 2014

Welcome to episode thirty four of the Technology for Good hangout. In this week’s episode our guest was SalesForce SVP of Strategy, John Taschek. John and I are both longtime members of the Enterprise Irregulars, but this was the first time John and I had had a conversation outside of email! Some of the more […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged #df14, apps, climate, Comms, Electricity 2.0, GreenMonkTV, Hardware, Internet of Things, IoT, John Taschek, mobility, Open source, Privacy, salesforce.com, security, Sustainability, wearables

Sensors, Sensors, Everywhere Nor Anything to Measure

Sensors, Sensors, Everywhere Nor Anything to Measure

By Esteban Kolsky on September 18, 2014

With my apologies to The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, I want to draw your attention the latest and greatest concept to hit Enterprise Software: the Internet of Things and the myriad sensors that come with it. The concept is not novel, the original idea behind the Internet was to connect the many devices (computers […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged customer service, Dreamforce, Internet of Things, IoT, salesforce.com, sensors, Service Cloud | 1 Response

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