Maciej Kranz

October 12, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

The Internet of Things: Why Now?

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The time is ripe for an IoT explosion. The number of connected “things” in the world has skyrocketed from about a million in the early 1990s to 13 billion today. As the Internet of Everything (IoE) gains momentum—digitizing business processes in every industry—we expect to see 50 billion connected devices by 2020. The technology connecting […]

September 14, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

It’s Not Just the Connections, It’s the Applications

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is connecting sensors, cameras, machines, and other devices at an amazing rate. But what drives the value of these digitized devices is not just the connections—it’s the applications that the connections enable. Think, for example, of a connected transportation system. It is not enough that buses have GPS and can […]

August 24, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Fog Analytics: Turning Data into Real-Time Insight and Action

2 min read

The world is awash in data, and 90 percent of it was created in the last two years.1 In fact, every day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data2 and that number is growing exponentially. The explosive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to add to this data glut, with 40 percent of […]

August 10, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Fog Computing: Bringing Cloud Capabilities Down to Earth

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When we think of “cloud” we think of a vast collection of compute, network, and storage capabilities that resides somewhere high above us—a massive repository of functionality that can be accessed from anywhere and any device with enough bandwidth to handle the data flow. With practically unlimited power and scalability, cloud technology has been a […]

IoT Meets Standards, Driving Interoperability and Adoption

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For years, industrial control systems have been characterized by proprietary devices, protocols, communications, and applications. However, at the Hannover Fair last spring, virtually every exhibitor showed products that support IP, Ethernet, or Wi-Fi interfaces—something that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago. The Internet of Everything (IoE) is driving this change, with an exponentially […]

IT Is from Venus, OT Is from Mars

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Bringing Alien Worlds Together in the Internet of Things In the 1990s, I, like millions of others, read the book Women Are from Venus, Men Are from Mars. This best-seller suggested that the frequent misunderstandings between genders make it seem as though men and women are from different, alien worlds. But it’s not just men […]

January 16, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

What’s on Cisco’s Technology Radar? Predictions for 2014 and Beyond

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Will an ‘Internet of Everything’ shorten your commute in the morning? Are we at the beginning or the end of the SDN hype cycle? What exactly is ‘context aware’ computing? How will large format HDTV technology transform the way global teams work together?  Just before the holidays, I had the pleasure of posing these and […]

March 7, 2013

MANUFACTURING

Security, IoT and Risk Management for Industrial Networking

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Isn't it great to meet your respected peers all in one place to share ideas on improving industrial business performance? Executives, engineers, developers and analysts did just that at the...

February 13, 2013

MANUFACTURING

Initial impressions of the Cisco Industrial Smart Solution at ARC Forum

In Monday’s blog, Maciej Kranz, Cisco VP/GM for the Connected Industries Group introduced the Cisco Industrial Smart Solution which converges factory automation, control systems and enterprise business systems onto a common, standards-based IP network. Yesterday, Maciej and many others wrapped up the second of four days at the ARC World Industry Forum, discussing processes and […]