By Elizabeth White  Asurion is a provider of technology protection services and the business operates in the intersection of consumer devices, mobile technologies and IoT. Analytics forms the backbone for its products, services and competitive advantage. Analytics for us is not isolated silos of reporting... Mar. 14, 2016 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 475 |
By Pat Romanski  transform operational efficiency and safety for businesses and communities, especially during critical situations. During these critical events, man-made incidents or natural disasters, identifying and reaching employees with reliable and automated communications can not only protect b... Mar. 14, 2016 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 616 |
By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today Object Management Group® has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7–9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Novembe... Mar. 14, 2016 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 638 |
By Kevin Benedict  The evolution of JavaScript and HTML 5 to support a genuine component based framework (Web Components) with the necessary tools to deliver something close to a native experience including genuine realtime networking (UDP using WebRTC). HTML5 is evolving to offer built in templating sup... Mar. 14, 2016 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,359 |
By SmartBear Blog  APIs have taken the world by storm in recent years.
The use of APIs has gone beyond just traditional "software" companies, to companies and organizations across industries using APIs to share information and power their applications.
For some organizations, APIs are the biggest reven... Mar. 14, 2016 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 564 |
By Tom Willie  Advances in technology are redefining how energy assets are managed. Buildings that use energy IoT technology can connect to and manage their energy assets in real-time. They can institute system-wide operational oversight and compliance, execute energy efficiency programs, utilize rea... Mar. 14, 2016 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 450 |
By Elizabeth White  For basic one-to-one voice or video calling solutions, WebRTC has proven to be a very powerful technology. Although WebRTC’s core functionality is to provide secure, real-time p2p media streaming, leveraging native platform features and server-side components brings up new communicatio... Mar. 14, 2016 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 413 |
By Scott Allen  *This is part of a series of blogs examining Sensor-2-Server (S2S) communications, development, security and implementation.
For the past two weeks, we’ve taken an in-depth look at what Sensor-2-Server communications are, how to implement these systems, and some of the specific aspect... Mar. 14, 2016 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 482 |
By Ian Khan  Cloud computing can get confusing sometimes. For IT professionals who have been part of technology for the last few years sometimes new terminology is just a way to redefine things that were done in the past. “We’ve done that since 1995,” or “We used to do that in the ’80s,” is not an ... Mar. 14, 2016 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 533 |
By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that iDevices®, the preeminent brand in the connected home industry, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo® | @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
iDevices has announced that i... Mar. 14, 2016 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 519 |
By Liz McMillan  Exosite has announced its Taipei Office has formally been established. Exosite’s Taiwan operations have grown from the Taichung team, primarily focused on research and development, into a full-service IoT enablement organization with development and consulting capabilities. The new Tai... Mar. 14, 2016 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 878 |
By Kevin Benedict  Sensors allow us to digitally monitor our physical world, and take real-time action on the data from afar. Plant managers, in fact, can manage multiple manufacturing locations around the world in real-time via sensors and Internet connectivity. Drone pilots in the Nevada desert; proj... Mar. 14, 2016 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 559 |
By Yakov Fain  Lots of things are happening there. As of today it’s the liveliest software ecosystem. The last time I’ve seen such an interesting gathering was 15 years ago in Java.
Fifteen years ago Java developers were looking down on the JavaScript folks. It was assumed that JavaScript was only ... Mar. 14, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 650 |
By Tom Kelly  A key and wide-ranging tech trend that’s affecting enterprises and consumers alike is the Internet of Things (IoT). It’s a development that’s already transforming how we work and live as entrepreneurial minds continue to create use cases for billions of connected things.
Transformati... Mar. 14, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 581 |
By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today TMCnet has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7–9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at th... Mar. 14, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 749 |
By Elizabeth White  Internet of Things (IoT) platforms have evolved. Advances in technology make it possible for facilities to become more data-driven by connecting to energy assets, thereby improving building resiliency and reducing energy costs. By creating an Energy Network of Things, facilities can ma... Mar. 14, 2016 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 593 |
By Anil Kaul; Titir Pal  Big Data analytics and the Internet of Things are still relative newcomers. Given how quickly technology moves, though, it’s not surprising that their next incarnations are already being talked about: cognitive analytics and a much-grown Internet of Things (IoT).
We all know about the... Mar. 14, 2016 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,079 |
By Elizabeth White  Two-thirds of organizations implementing hybrid cloud report they’re already gaining competitive advantage from their hybrid environments and are nearly three times as likely to use it to assemble data assets or monetize data, according to findings released by IBM (NYSE: IBM).
With ... Mar. 14, 2016 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 527 |
By Kevin Benedict  The C suite must understand the battle they are fighting before they can develop and implement a winning digital transformation strategy. The commercial battlefield is data, and the effectiveness and speed of competitors’ information logistics systems will make all the difference. The... Mar. 13, 2016 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 315 |
By Liz McMillan  The emerging Internet of Everything creates tremendous new opportunities for customer engagement and business model innovation. However, enterprises must overcome a number of critical challenges to bring these new solutions to market.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Michael Martin, CT... Mar. 11, 2016 04:15 PM EST Reads: 432 |
By Pat Romanski  Connected devices and the industrial internet are growing exponentially every year with Cisco expecting 50 billion devices to be in operation by 2020. In this period of growth, location-based insights are becoming invaluable to many businesses as they adopt new connected technologies. ... Mar. 10, 2016 02:00 PM EST Reads: 935 |
By Yakov Fain  I was writing a small app in Angular 2 in TypeScript with the on-the-fly transpiling by SystemJS.
I needed to implement a router that would switch between the Home and ProductDetail views in a single page app.
The root component had two links and was supposed to render either Hom... Mar. 10, 2016 02:00 AM EST Reads: 735 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty ... Mar. 9, 2016 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,912 |
By Yakov Fain  This article was excerpted from the book “Angular Development With TypeScript.”
The Angular 2 framework is a re-write of popular framework AngularJS. In short, the newer version has the following advantages over AngularJS.
The code is simpler to write and read
It performs better th... Mar. 9, 2016 09:15 AM EST Reads: 385 |
By Pat Romanski  WebRTC: together these advances have created a perfect storm of technologies that are disrupting and transforming classic communications models and ecosystems.
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Cary Bran, VP of Innovation and New Ventures at Plantronics and PLT Labs, provided an overv... Mar. 8, 2016 11:00 PM EST Reads: 1,766 |
By Andy Thurai  The United States spends around 17-18% of its GDP on healthcare every year. Translated into dollars, it is a mind-boggling $2.9 trillion. Unfortunately, that spending will grow at a faster rate now due to baby boomers becoming an aging population, and they are the largest demographic i... Mar. 8, 2016 09:30 PM EST Reads: 1,253 |
By Maria C. Horton  Two weeks ago (November 3-5), I attended the Cloud Expo Silicon Valley as a speaker, where I presented on the security and privacy due diligence requirements for cloud solutions.
Cloud security is a topical issue for every CIO, CISO, and technology buyer. Decision-makers are always lo... Mar. 8, 2016 07:45 PM EST Reads: 1,092 |
By Elizabeth White  The buzz continues for cloud, data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) and their collective impact across all industries. But a new conversation is emerging - how do companies use industry disruption and technology enablers to lead in markets undergoing change, uncertainty and a... Mar. 8, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,295 |
By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today the How to Create Angular 2 Clients for the Cloud Workshop, being held June 7, 2016, in conjunction with 18th Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
Angular 2 is a complete re-write of the popular framework AngularJS. Programming... Mar. 8, 2016 01:15 PM EST Reads: 658 |
By Scott Allen  We’re fresh off a great week at DistribuTECH 2016 where we saw a gamut of technologies, thought leaders and trends. With utilities and energy still top-of-mind, our focus this week is on the changing face of the industry. This digital age means we have come to expect that the power wil... Mar. 8, 2016 09:30 AM EST Reads: 270 |
By Kevin Benedict  Mobile apps and data collection go hand in glove. Mobile devices are powerful sensor platforms that are never more than 2 meters away from their owners 24 hours a day. These sensor platforms and the data collected from them are golden to mobile commerce vendors and digital marketers, ... Mar. 7, 2016 09:30 PM EST Reads: 419 |
By Elizabeth White  WebRTC sits at the intersection between VoIP and the Web. As such, it poses some interesting challenges for those developing services on top of it, but also for those who need to test and monitor these services.
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Tsahi Levent-Levi, co-founder of testRTC... Mar. 7, 2016 07:00 PM EST Reads: 447 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  WebRTC defines no default signaling protocol, causing fragmentation between WebRTC silos. SIP and XMPP provide possibilities, but come with considerable complexity and are not designed for use in a web environment. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder of... Mar. 7, 2016 03:00 PM EST Reads: 953 |
By Liz McMillan  In his keynote at @ThingsExpo, Chris Matthieu, Director of IoT Engineering at Citrix and co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, focused on building an IoT platform and company. He provided a behind-the-scenes look at Octoblu’s platform, business, and pivots along the way (including the Citrix ... Mar. 7, 2016 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,461 |
By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events has announced today that Roger Strukhoff has been named conference chair of Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo 2016 New York.
The 18th Cloud Expo and 5th @ThingsExpo will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
"The Internet of Things brings tr... Mar. 7, 2016 02:00 PM EST Reads: 562 |
By Ram Sonagara  The global wireless health market by products encompasses ECG monitors, insulin monitors, neuromonitors such as EEG and EMG devices. This research report analyzes this market on the basis of its market segments, major geographies, and current market trends.
Recent estimates show that ... Mar. 7, 2016 01:00 AM EST Reads: 201 |
By Elizabeth White  The Internet of Things is clearly many things: data collection and analytics, wearables, Smart Grids and Smart Cities, the Industrial Internet, and more. Cool platforms like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Intel's Galileo and Edison, and a diverse world of sensors are making the IoT a great toy... Mar. 6, 2016 11:15 PM EST Reads: 1,341 |
By Elizabeth White  WebRTC is bringing significant change to the communications landscape that will bridge the worlds of web and telephony, making the Internet the new standard for communications. Cloud9 took the road less traveled and used WebRTC to create a downloadable enterprise-grade communications p... Mar. 6, 2016 04:45 PM EST Reads: 264 |
By Daniel Joseph Barry  We live in a hyper-connected, mobility-enabled world, one in which carriers must make drastic changes to how they do business if they are to survive and thrive in the future. Accordingly, great strides have been made over the last three years to prove the viability of Network Functions... Mar. 6, 2016 03:00 PM EST Reads: 414 |
By Leon Adato  Today, “network device management” means different things to different people, and the reality is that IT organizations do it, or at least do what they consider network device management to be, to vastly varying degrees, including some who do none at all (hopefully this isn’t you).
A... Mar. 6, 2016 12:45 PM EST Reads: 407 |