Internet of Things (IoT)

How Connected Building Solutions Can Support Hybrid Workplaces

by Dylan Martin

CRN speaks to tech executives who believe IoT and connected building solutions can play an important role in helping organizations manage ‘hybrid workplaces,’ an idea that has taken off in the face of a workforce that increasingly wants the option to work remotely permanent amid the pandemic.
Honeywell, SAP Launch Forge Connected Building Offering

by Dylan Martin

Co-developed with SAP, the new Honeywell Forge Real Estate Operations offering can help property owners and managers optimize their real estate operations to meet sustainability goals and right-size office space as more employers embrace flexible work policies.
Intel Partner Alliance Key To Unlocking IoT Opportunities: Exec

by Dylan Martin

Intel IoT sales exec Brad Haczynski tells CRN that partners should embrace the various resources within the new Intel Partner Alliance program to take advantage of emerging IoT opportunities and, when special expertise is needed, collaborate with other partners. ‘We really feel confident that the programs and the solutions that we’re bringing to market are really helping,’ he says.
2021 Internet Of Things 50: The Bright Lights Of IoT

by Dylan Martin

Solution providers are seizing the IoT opportunity like never before. Here are 50 key IoT players across connectivity, hardware, industrial IoT, security and software.
5 Emerging IoT Technologies You Need To Know In 2021

by Dylan Martin

These emerging technologies are creating all sorts of new capabilities for IoT devices and applications, from battery-free sensors to 5G network slicing.
Microsoft Grows Prototyping Capabilities With Acquisition Of The Marsden Group

by Wade Tyler Millward

The acquisition should help improve Microsoft’s offerings to asset-intensive industries like manufacturing, automotive and logistics, Microsoft said.
HPE Pledges 25 Percent Reduction In Total Cost of Ownership For Telecom Providers With New Open RAN Solution Stack

by Steven Burke

‘We believe that where telecom companies implement an Open RAN strategy solution versus a proprietary solution they are looking at about a 25 percent reduction in total cost of ownership,’ says HPE Senior Vice President Phil Mottram. ‘That’s the kind of magnitude of savings that can be driven by a (telecom) operator if they take a more open approach.’
Zededa Wants To Make Edge Computing Open And Future-Proof — With Or Without It

by Dylan Martin

The edge computing startup has launched a cloud service for remotely managing and deploying applications to servers and devices at the ‘distributed edge,’ and it uses an open-source operating system that can run virtual machines and containers as the foundation.
Nubix Raises $2.7M To Bring Containers To Tiny IoT Devices

by Dylan Martin

‘You can deploy the same container, the same application to both a Linux-based microprocessor as well as a real-time operating system [microcontroller unit], and that is what nobody else can claim on the planet right now,’ says Nubix CEO Rachel Taylor.
Cognizant To Acquire AWS, Microsoft IoT Partner Bright Wolf

by Dylan Martin

Cognizant’s latest deal comes after it recently unveiled plans to acquire Microsoft partners 10th Magnitude and New Signature. ‘Companies are increasingly embracing [industrial] IoT, and Bright Wolf’s team of senior IIoT architects have delivered the business value others have struggled to achieve,’ says Malcolm Frank, Cognizant’s president of digital business.
Ordr Arms Partners With Sensor To Uncover ‘Shadow’ IoT Devices

by Dylan Martin

‘This was exactly what we wanted to do, and nobody could do it. And we talked to a lot of different IoT players and nobody could do it, but Ordr did it,’ an Ordr partner says of the new IoT Discovery Program that gives partners plug-and-play sensors and 30-day software trials for uncovering hidden IoT devices on the network.
Intel Claims Big IoT Boost With New Tiger Lake, Elkhart Lake CPUs

by Dylan Martin

The semiconductor giant is promising a new level of performance and capabilities for IoT applications with the new 11th-generation Intel Core processors and the Intel Atom x6000E series, both of which feature things like Intel Time Coordinated Computing to enable real-time, deterministic computing.
OnLogic Sees AMD Demand Rise As New Ryzen, EPYC Servers Launch

by Dylan Martin

‘AMD has definitely made a splash. We see a lot of customers coming in specifically looking for AMD, and it‘s really because of the performance that’s available on the platform,’ OnLogic’s Maxx Garrison says of the company’s new Ryzen- and EPYC-based industrial servers for edge computing workloads.
Arm Halts IoT Software Spin-Off Plans Amid Acquisition Rumors

by Dylan Martin

‘After further diligence, we have determined that both IoTP and Data can realize the same benefits as independent operating businesses, each with their own P&L, under the Arm Limited umbrella with less operational disruption,’ an Arm spokesperson says in confirming its reversal of a previously announced spin-off plan.
Arm Seeks To Offload IoT Units To SoftBank

by Dylan Martin

'Arm would be in a stronger position to innovate in our core IP roadmap and provide our partners with greater support to capture the expanding opportunities for compute solutions across a range of markets,' Arm CEO Simon Segars says of the proposal, which will allow the company to double down on its chip design business.