Security concerns — cyber/data and physical — are the top inhibitors of growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). Businesses and governments invest tremendous time and money securing their traditional IT assets – PCs, desktops, servers, routers and switches. It is not surprising that these same organizations are reluctant to implement new IoT solutions unless they are comfortable with the high levels of security they can provide. Today MachNation published IoT Security Landscape and Vendor Recommendations 2015. […]
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Whitepaper carrier best practices: implementing an IoT application enablement platform
This complimentary research article offers 5 best practices describing how carriers can most effectively leverage their relationships with IoT AEP vendors. Carriers can triple their IoT/M2M revenues with an IoT AEP. Whitepaper: Carrier Best Practices for IoT Application Enablement (Publicly available): The best practices include Identifying the best AEP technology Working with two types of SIs that have domain expertise Building an inter-departmental team to select and implement an AEP Engaging a new ecosystem of partners while […]
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Cumulocity, one of MachNation’s recommended IoT application enablement platform (AEP) vendors, has announced another customer win with Deutsche Telekom (DT). The Cumulocity IoT platform will power DT’s Cloud of Things solution, a platform to help businesses connect devices to applications. Why is this win important? 1. DT choosing Cumulocity is further validation of the quality solution available from Cumulocity. MachNation cited Cumulocity as a top recommendation in its recently published IoT Application Platform Scorecard. DT, a tier-one […]
Continue readingMore TagThe best of Apple and Google meet in IoT plug-and-play solution: Proteus case study
In 2015 MachNation expects to see a new deployment model for IoT solutions – a model where plug-and-play functionality is built into the solutions. A plug-and-play experience for IoT brings together the Google Android-type benefits of having many device types available and allowing open integrations with the Apple iOS-type benefits of solution reliability and ease-of-use. In this piece of research we discuss Proteus’ EcoCloud solution — a good example of a plug-and-play IoT solution that uses unique […]
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Cisco and 29 other event sponsors made the Internet of Things (IoT) come to life in Chicago at the 2014 IoT World Forum. Attended by 1500 people – the majority of whom were large enterprise customers – IoT World Forum is the de facto industry event for enterprises interested in spurring innovation and productivity in their organizations. MachNation is proud to be one of the 104 companies on Cisco’s IoT steering committee. All 104 companies […]
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