Cisco is ramping up focus on IoT and cloud, moving its Internet of Everything (IoE) and cloud businesses from being stand-alone operations to being within its primary functions. Incoming CEO, Chuck Robbins — who steps into the role on 27 July after a three month transition period — announced the moves in a blog post, saying: […]
Cisco IoT World Forum Reference Model promises interoperability
With the number of bodies, platforms and ‘standards’ relating to IoT growing rapidly, Cisco is hoping to provide some overarching uniformity with the development of the IoT World Forum Reference Model, which it unveiled at the 2014 IoT World Forum, billed as “an exclusive industry event, hosted by Cisco.” According to a Cisco white paper […]
Korean startup N3N a poster child for Cisco Australian IoE Innovation Centre
Cisco invited South Korean startup N3N to the opening of its Perth IoE Innovation Centre and Cisco CTO Kevin Bloch says the company epitomises what Cisco hopes to achieve with the centre, and the possibilities of its fog computing architecture. N3N has developed software that allows an operator to view on a screen small low […]
CISRO set to join Cisco IoE Innovation Centre
The CSIRO looks set to join the Cisco IoE Innovation Centre in Australia, announced in March at Cisco’s partnership event, CiscoLive, and to be located at facilities in Sydney and Perth. The Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, officially opened Cisco’s IoE Innovation Center hub in Perth, located on the Bentley Campus of Curtin University. […]
In search of fog computing
In search of fog computing If you happen to be at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas in mid August instead of losing your shirt at the tables you could catch a three day conference dedicated to fog computing, one of the newest concepts in the world of IoT, and one that seems to be still […]
Fujitsu brings GlobeRanger IoT iMotion Edgeware to ANZ
Fujitsu said last week that it had established support capability in Australia and New Zealand for the “groundbreaking” GlobeRanger IoT iMotion Edgeware management platform. iMotion Edgeware might be new to Australia but it is far from new and any ground it broke was over a decade ago, because that’s how long iMotion and Edgeware have been around. […]
By 2020 Google and/or Apple will dominate IoT: everybody else will be history
VisionMobile has published a report detailing “Four seismic trends that will shake up the IoT market.” One of these is that by 2020, Apple, Google or both will have built a dominant IoT platform that makes head-on competition impossible. VisionMobile explains: “Established technology companies like IBM, Cisco or GE, and incumbent IoT specialists like Jasper, […]
KEI: part think tank, part social enterprise
Chris Vein, chairman of the recently-launched Knowledge Economy Institute, in an interview with IoTAustralia, has provided more details of the institute, which is backed by data analytics provider Sirca, Bosch, Cisco, Rozetta Technology (wholly-owned by Sirca), Curtin University and the University of Tasmania. “In some senses it is a think tank on the traditional model, […]
Cisco backs Guardian’s IoT coverage
The Guardian Media Network has launched a new project that focus on the key issues surrounding the Internet of Things. In an email the Guardian said: “Today marks the launch of a new project on the Media Network that focuses on the key issues surrounding the internet of things. Our connected world series looks at the […]
First fruits of Cisco’s Berlin IoE Innovation Centre
Cisco has unveiled the first product to come out of its Berlin Internet of Everything Innovation Centre, an entity similar to the one being set up by Cisco in Australia. The product – now commercially available – is an asset management solution that monitors and controls distributed infrastructure over the Internet. It was developed in […]
