Energy - Oil & Gas, Mining and Utilities

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  Last week Cisco participated in the Yokogawa Users Conference and Exhibition at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston, TX. In this, our first year’s participation in the event, we showed our new offers on the exhibit floor : Secure Ops and Collaborative Operations for the Oil and Gas industry. Serhii Konovalov, Global lead for […]

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Cisco and Akili  feature their joint Oil & Gas Technology Solutions with SAP HANA running on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) at the Best Practices for Oil and Gas conference Sept. 16-19 in Houston, TX. The Best Practices for Oil & Gas Conference is North America’s leading forum for upstream, midstream, downstream and oil field […]

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You may not have heard about BKK AS. They are actually the second largest power grid owner in Norway with over 180,000 customers. Like many power and energy companies, some of their equipment has been around a long time. It works, but it’s getting old and it’s time to move on to something more cost […]

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I’ve been to the UK twice this year. The traffic is terrible! Worse than I ever remember! Commentators that’s a good sign – a sign of economic prosperity. That certainly seems to be the case in the UK. My last European-related blog – Ferguson Group Ltd keeps an Eye on Operations with Cisco Physical Security […]

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Cyber security risk management and compliance for industrial control environments – especially in the Oil and Gas Industry, and the ability to connect experts for mission critical communications and collaboration are key areas that Cisco is addressing with two new services-lead solutions. We’re living in changing times. Cyber attacks are on the increase and critical […]

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During the past ENTELEC event held in Houston, I had the opportunity to chat with Shawn Birch – Partner Development Consultant At Tait Communications to ask him about his impressions of the shows and what would be the key care-abouts of IT people during this Oil and Gas event. Tait Communications is a multinational global […]

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With just under two million customers, BC Hydro is deploying the first standards based multi-services in production FAN network with IPv6 802.15.4/RPL mesh to manage the Automated Metering Infrastructure(AMI), Distribution...

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This is the second of a four part series on the convergence of IT and OT (Operational Technologies) by Rick Geiger Physical Security has evolved from serial communication to modern systems that are largely, if not completely, IP networked systems.  The unique requirements of physical security have often lead to shadow IT departments within the physical […]

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Cisco Live is always a 'High Energy' event, and this week at San Francisco proved no different. It was also a place where Energy companies themselves had come...