IoT predictions by Samuel Hale, Steve Hilton, and Josh Taubenheim As we leave behind a tumultuous 2020 and head into 2021, we’re a bit more battle scarred, but also wiser about what is needed in the IoT world. As part of our reflection process, MachNation has been talking with our large enterprise customers and has arrived at a set of three IoT platform predictions for 2021. 1. Enterprise customers will demand high-resilience IoT solutions to […]
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3 predictions for IoT platforms in 2020: finding a champion among the also-rans
While the average quality of IoT platforms continues to increase, finding platforms with unique value-creating capabilities and independently benchmarked scalability will be difficult in 2020. 2019 has been an amazing year for those of us who spend our business lives using IoT platforms. While prior years have been replete with big promises and little to show, 2019 has been a year where everyone is running at full gallop to deliver meaningful implementations. Designing IoT system […]
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3 Use Cases for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
In the two previous articles of this three-part series we discussed 7 benefits for DLT in IoT applications and profiled three IoT vendors who are already leveraging DLT in their solutions. In this piece we will be recapping some common terminology used when discussing DLT and taking an in-depth look at the various use cases for DLT across the industrial, financial and consumer sectors. DLT is the same as Blockchain…right? While the terms are often […]
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Amazon, Microsoft, VW, BMW – a bevy of IoT partnerships
Over the past few weeks, two hyperscale cloud vendors have announced partnerships with automotive manufacturers to help extend the use of IoT and cloud to auto industry supply chains. Microsoft has announced a partnership with BMW that will use the Azure platform to create an Open Manufacturing Platform. Amazon and Volkswagen have announced a similar partnership that will create the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud using AWS Infrastructure. These announcements show the huge investment that manufacturers such […]
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Edge computing helps organizations meet GDPR compliance
The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018 is the most sweeping and comprehensive European legislation to address the issues of personal data protection and online privacy in more than 20 years. GDPR defines personal data broadly and aims to give consumers control over how their data is stored, transferred, and used by third-parties. According to the McDermott and Ponemon GDPR Survey Results, sixty percent of respondents said that GDPR has […]
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