A Ponemon Institute global survey on encryption trends found IoT to be one of the biggest drivers of encryption uptake in Australia. The top use cases for Australia were public cloud services (49 percent, up from 32 percent last year), IoT devices (31 percent from 22 percent over the past two years) and Docker containers […]
Australian businesses unprepared for Industry 4.0, says KPMG
KPMG says its survey of 198 Australian business leaders conducted in collaboration with global analytics platform Faethm shows “a concerning lack of readiness for technological change amongst Australian organisations” with most business leaders unprepared for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), which it describes as “the convergence of the physical, digital and biological worlds.” The 2020 […]
AI with IoT: a powerful synergy
A global study of business leaders conducted by SAS, Deloitte and Intel claims to have shown organisations combining artificial intelligence with their IoT initiatives get much better results than those using IoT alone. For the study, 450 business leaders from around the world were asked about their use of IoT and AI technologies. IDC conducted […]
Training on IoT risks needed urgently, says Ponemon Institute
The Ponemon Institute has called on organisations to conduct, as a matter of urgency, employee training programs on the risks created by IoT devices. Its view comes from the results of a survey sponsored by third party risk management company Shared Assessments in which Ponemon found few companies conducting training and awareness programs to minimise the […]
Frost & Sullivan filters IoT platforms: from 1000 to 31
Frost & Sullivan has issued an assessment of the IoT platforms market reviewing 31 that its judges to be “true platforms … at the cutting edge of innovation and growth,” culled from a field of more than 1000. F&S has published its assessment of the 31 platforms in a F&S Radar report Global Internet of […]
Harbor Research undermines IoT platforms
Harbor Research has launched a blistering condemnation of today’s IoT platforms, branding them “a kludgy collection of yesterday’s technology and architectures that do not address the most basic development challenges.” It has dismissed the “fantastic IoT marketing stories [from platform vendors] about what their solutions can do,” as misrepresentations of a “fragmented collection of incomplete platforms, […]
Forrester ranks its top 15 industrial IoT platforms
Forrester has issued a Forrester Wave report examining and ranking what it sees as the top 15 industrial IoT platforms, pronouncing C3IoT, Microsoft, IBM, PTC and SAP as leaders. Forrester listed its 15 chosen vendors as being Amazon Web Services, Atos (Atos Codex IoT), Bosch (Bosch IoT Suite), C3 IoT (C3 IoT Platform and Applications), […]
What it takes to be leading IoT edge platform
IoT research firm Machnation has produced a free whitepaper Five requirements of a leading IoT edge platform that identifies what, in Machination’s view are five capabilities needed for an IoT edge platform. extensive protocol support for data ingestion robust capability for offline functionality cloud-based orchestration capabilities to support device lifecycle management hardware-agnostic scalable architecture comprehensive analytics […]
OEMs, developers, users: differing views on IoT deployment
The IoT M2M Council – a trade association that represents 25,000 IoT buyers worldwide – says its latest research shows there are strong differences in how IoT technology adoption is viewed by OEMs, applications developers, and enterprise users. Its conclusions come from its Quarterly IoT Buyers’ Index for Q2 2018. The council says this shows […]
Top open source vendors for IoT identified
Research firm RT Insights has surveyed 253 IT decision makers to come up with a ranking of the top five open source software vendors for IoT application development. Red Hat (76 percent) emerged as the clear leader followed by Google (68 percent), Microsoft (63 percent), Oracle (56 percent), and IBM (53 percent). RT Insights said […]
