Murray Dickson, Director of Sales, Enterprise, South Pacific, CommScope looks at what is needed to create a truly smart city. Nations around the world have been channelling more investment dollars into smart city technologies as each nation looks to embrace the global trend towards making major urban centres more productive and user friendly for citizens. […]
The end of cloud as we know it?
Every year for the past several years Cisco ANZ CTO Kevin Bloch has produced a list of his top 10 ICT trends for the year “selected for their impact on the networking industry.” This year he is predicting “the end of cloud as we know it.” That might seem a rash forecast given the still […]
Do CIOs care about IoT?
IDC has just released its 2020 State of the CIO Research. Somewhat surprisingly, given the numerous recent bullish forecasts about the uptake and importance of IoT, it doesn’t make much of a showing in the responses of the 679 heads of IT IDC canvassed. IDC says the research “helps define the CIO agenda for the […]
Edge computing: who’s hot and who’s not
Edge computing. It’s flavour of the month, especially in IoT where putting processing power at the edge can solve issues of latency, resilience, transferring massive amounts of redundant data to distant data centres, and more. As with any hot technology, the pundits and the analysts are jumping on the bandwagon with their assessments of the […]
Spark 5G and the Americas Cup: it’s just not cricket
This week’s announcement from Spark that its trial 5G network had gone live was good news for Spark, good news for supplier Huawei and particularly good news for the Emirates Americas Cup team, which gets exclusive access to the network. According to Spark: “The reduced latency and higher bandwidth of 5G means Emirates Team New […]
Internet in Australia — the early years
Here are some highlights from the early years of the Internet in Australia, as reported in Exchange. Last night, 31 October I had the pleasure of attending a dinner organised by the former head of the Australian Internet Industry Association Peter Coroneos to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the arrival of the Internet in Australia. […]
Dumbing down smart devices changes the way we see IoT
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet of things have been hot topics for any digital transformation discussion in recent years. It’s no surprise. The IT industry is obsessed with what the future has in store. As technologists, it’s important to continue to drive conversations about where the industry is going and what the next […]
Australia leading the IoT charge to the digital edge
As IoT continues to prove a key focus for companies and governments throughout the world nowhere exemplifies IoT in action more than Asia-Pacific. According to the latest IDC Worldwide Semi-annual Internet of Things Spending Guide, Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) is projected to be the global leader in IoT spending in 2019, accounting for approximately 36.9 percent […]
IoT demands a reliable edge
Schneider Electric is betting on a burgeoning market for tools to reliably manage edge resources, at massive scale. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Nor is an IT service, and with edge computing facilities playing an ever increasing role in the delivery of IT services of all kinds, including IoT, there needs […]
Meeting the challenge of life at the edge of IoT
Edge computing is very much flavour of the month, driven by the need to avoid pumping masses of data generated by IoT devices all the way to distant data centres, and by the need to make rapid decisions based on IoT data and then act on those decisions. IT vendors of all kinds are seeking […]
