The Internet of Things (IoT) is the next big opportunity for the channel, according to a recent release from AT&T. The AT&T Partner Exchange is launching a collection of IoT resources to help make it easier for solution providers to navigate the possibilities of IoT with their customers. The tools include “A Channel Executive’s Guide […]
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Potentially the biggest opportunity and/or theme in the definition and use of the internet of things will be in the effort to increase supplier intimacy with the customer. Have we considered what this might mean for the average IT organization? It’s safe to assume that you’ll need to make a change to business as usual
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China’s Cities Have Their Own Culture of Innovation If you’re old enough you might remember that “Made in Japan” was once a slur in the U.S., suggesting that a product was a cheap copy of someone else’s innovation. Then we went through the Rising Sun era, when some Americans feared Japanese economic might would overwhelm
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We know by now that smart home devices have the ability to make our lives more convenient. Moving beyond devices, some IoT providers are deploying bots, which use artificial intelligence to create hyper-personalized services that will take consumer convenience to a whole new level. Bots are a relatively new term for most, but this past
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from the not-everything-should-be-connected-to-the-internet dept So we’ve talked repeatedly how the shoddy security in most “internet of things” devices has resulted in increasingly-vulnerable home networks, as consumers rush to connect not-so-smart fridges, TVs and tea kettles to the home network. But this failure extends well beyond the home, since these devices have also resulted in historically-large
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All the data that pours in from the internet of things needs to go somewhere. Increasingly, that somewhere may be a NoSQL database. While NoSQL does not provide the same tight data consistency that SQL databases do, the simplicity and resultant speed of NoSQL can lead to predictable processing performance that may elude established SQL
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Cisco initially scheduled its inaugural DevNet Create developers’ conference in San Francisco for what turned out to be the same week in May as Google’s wildly popular I/O event in Mountain View (that coy old Google didn’t reveal its show dates until late January). So Cisco wound up bumping its new event to the following week
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There was a time when a child’s rubber duck was merely a rubber duck. No longer. Today, the duck may be connected to the internet, able to respond to the child’s gestures on a phone, and alert parents if bath water is too warm. A raft of smart toys debuted at this year’s New York
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Heatmap of California’s broadband needs ( http://www.internetforallnow.org/ ) California Broadband Council members met in downtown Sacramento last week to discuss the state’s Internet needs and potential solutions. The meeting was led by California CIO Amy Tong, the council’s chair. A portion of the meeting focused on 5G and the Internet of Things with presentations from
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