Cisco has formed the – ozymoronically named – Open Fog Consortium to garner wider support for its version of edge computing as applied to IoT networks. Founding members are ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Princeton University, through the Princeton University Edge Laboratory. Helter Antunes, senior director of Cisco’s Corporate Strategic Innovations Group, has been […]
ARM buys IoT security company Offspark
Chipmaker ARM says it has “signalled the importance of security in IoT” by acquiring IoT security software company, Offspark. The Dutch company specialises in IoT communications security and its PolarSSL technology is already deployed in a wide variety of devices including sensor modules, communication modules and smartphones. ARM says that, because security is a requirement […]
