MachNation was excited to attend Canonical Analyst Day 2019 last week in New York City. Canonical, best known for developing the popular Linux OS Ubuntu, hosts industry analysts and partners once a year to discuss recent achievements and plans for the future. Here are three of MachNation’s key takeaways from Canonical Analyst Day 2019: Canonical has made strong steps towards financial independence. With the shuttering of the Unity and Unity Touch OS in 2017 Canonical […]
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Integrating blockchain technology into IoT: 3 vendor profiles
3 Companies Leveraging Blockchain for IoT Companies are beginning to explore the benefits of using blockchain technology to address their growing IoT needs. Blockchain is a cryptographically secured, distributed ledger that allows for the secure transfer of information between parties. The primary benefit for adding blockchain to an IoT deployment is the decentralized architecture of distributed ledger technologies like blockchain. Operating on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, rather than a centralized cloud environment allows for the […]
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ALSO’s AllThingsTalk acquisition signals growing interest in SMB IoT solutions
The Swiss business-to-business marketplace operator ALSO has bought AllThingsTalk in a move MachNation believes highlights increasing potential for IoT for small and medium-businesses (SMBs). As we have previously written, large enterprises have traditionally been the early adopters of IoT solutions but the explosive growth in connected devices in recent years has enabled the development of IoT solutions for SMBs, sometimes also called small and medium enterprises (SMEs). That’s a market that AllThingsTalk, of Gent, Belgium, […]
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MachNation’s 2019 Device Management Scorecard rates 15 vendors
MachNation announces the availability of its 2019 IoT Device Management (DM) ScoreCard, an in-depth rating of 15 Internet of Things (IoT) device management platform vendors. In order to capture the key trends in the ecosystem, we completed an in-depth analysis of the following vendors: Amplia, AVSystem, Amazon, Ayla Networks, Blynk IoT, Bosch, Harman, Microsoft, Nokia, Particle, PTC, Software AG, Telit, VMWare and Zededa. This is MachNation’s third year producing its highly demanded IoT Device Management […]
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Industry and Technology Alignment – IoT Slam Live 2019
Last week MachNation was excited to attend the two-day IoT Slam Live 2019 event in Raleigh, North Carolina. For three years running IoT Community, the organization sponsoring IoT Slam Live, has brought together industry experts, analysts and exclusive speakers to discuss the current state of the industry and the future of IoT. The event featured talks from industry thought leaders, developers and executives from companies like IBM, SAS, Microsoft, AWS and more. Here are some […]
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