digitization
Oil Slump Sparks New Call for Digitization
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Looking at the marketplace today, now more than ever the oil and gas industry needs to take action. Crude oil prices are at incredible lows—just over $30 last week. While I’d never assert my ability to predict future oil prices, I did ring the bell last April for digital as the modern-day anecdote for doing […]
Cisco Networking Academy to Partner in Cuba
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Today, we are pleased to announce that Cisco will begin a new relationship with the Universidad de las Ciencias Informaticas (UCI) of Cuba, with the intention of bringing the Cisco Networking Academy program to UCI students.
The Digitization of Higher Education
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See how Cisco is leading the digital transformation in higher education.
Digital Transformation Brings Job Opportunities for Skilled Candidates
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The fourth industrial revolution is here. Soon connections will be limitless as we evolve at an exponential pace. The World Economic Forum showcased this revolution and the technological transformation to digital transformation. Cisco believes digitization will be the most exciting phase of the Internet yet. By 2020, it’s predicted there will be 50 billion connected […]
CHILL is Doing Cool Innovation
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In my last blog, I touched on some of cool innovation happening at Cisco. Today, I want to focus on one in particular: CHILL (Cisco Hyper-Innovation Living Labs). CHILL is helping Cisco re-define how ideas come to fruition. CHILL takes a vertical and creates an environment where a handful of Cisco’s biggest (non-competing) customers come […]
Part 2: The Ski Centre Queues and the Service Provider Internet of Things Opportunity
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Last week, in Part 1, I blogged about the bizarre association of queues at my local ski centre and unreliable access to cloud payment services. Being located in an...
Digitization@Work: The Manufacturing Plant
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Digitization is rapidly transforming the manufacturing industry. Manufacturers are now tracking supplies and resources, viewing work flow status, measuring production yield, and predicting downtime through extensive data collection and analytics in real time. Companies that digitize their operation will leave behind those relying on legacy systems. In fact, nearly 4 of the top 10 incumbents […]
General Motors Prevents Factory Downtime with Connected Machines
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Factory workers often learn about issues with their production machinery too late - after the line shuts down. Real-time condition monitoring and diagnostics can prevent unplanned downtime.
Rockwell Automation Wins the 2016 Engineers’ Choice Award!
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We are pleased to congratulate our industry partner Rockwell Automation for having won, for the third year in a row, the Control Engineering 2016 Engineers’ Choice Award in the Network Integration – Ethernet hardware Products category. This year, the voting session saw more than 140,000 industrial engineers responsible for automation, control, and instrumentation technologies. The final voting […]