While visiting my nephew in Harpswell, Maine, I took this beautiful picture of an idyllic location on the ocean as a great reminder of why I love Maine.
While visiting my nephew in Harpswell, Maine, I took this beautiful picture of an idyllic location on the ocean as a great reminder of why I love Maine.
International Security Conference & Expo (ISC) West is the largest single event for practitioners, consumers and providers in and around (physical) security and smart building technology. Everything from drones and surveillance robots to smart locks, video surveillance and smart turnstiles. 30,000 people and 1,000 exhibitors makes this a major event in a growing industry.
Connected products are transforming our lives in wonderful ways. I personally experience this every day.
DENVER, USA and NUREMBERG, Germany, May 18, 2017 – Paessler, the innovative network monitoring specialist, today announced a new partnership with EdgeIQ, a leading edge computing, OT device and data management company, to deliver a comprehensive visibility and management solution for both IT and operational technology.
Every January in Las Vegas, the latest and greatest TVs and other consumer goodies are on prominent display. The mainstream media combs the aisles looking for the coolest new tech gadgets that will dazzle their mainstream audiences. And in fairness, LG, Samsung, Sony and others put on a helluva display, pun intended.
I reflected on two interesting days in New York at ISC East; this time it was three days in Las Vegas at AWS re:Invent 2018. I considered not going, but then I was invited to a special partner session reserved for about 200 of AWS’ most brilliant and best looking partners...and me.
After spending two interesting days in New York recently (aren’t they all) attending the International Security Conference (ISC) East, it has come to my attention that the physical security technology market is in critical need of device relationship management. The ISC East is the smaller of two annual events sponsored by the Security Industry Association (SIA) that brings together the physical security ecosystem - OEMs, dealers, integrators and buyers. This market includes access control, video surveillance, alarm systems and monitoring, fire, environmental safety and related services. For reasons we don’t like to think about, this is a large, growing and highly strategic technology sector. Think hundreds of billions of dollars in hardware, software and related services. It’s a perfect macrocosm of business and technology trends shaping so many industries in our world today. Hardware is foundational but largely commoditized. Software and services are highly strategic and form the basis for new business models - and challenges.
Of all the potential competitors and partners I enjoy following in the market - VMware is one of my favorites. And there was a flurry of IoT and Edge Computing announcements, tweets and blog posts coming out of VMworld this past week in Las Vegas and from their parent company Dell in parallel.
Barron’s Tiernan Ray recently published a great blog about how the ‘Old Guard’ including Cisco, Dell, HPE are taking advantage of the backlash against the surprisingly high cost of cloud computing. As it turns out the race to zero initiated by the cloud leaders (AWS, Microsoft, and Google) was really a strategy to get organizations to host applications or store data in the cloud for almost nothing and then entice those customers with rich and powerful services to augment data and applications. Those additional services are far from free. I’ll be the first to admit that these are compelling offerings and they are growing exponentially. Have you seen the list of AWS services available today? It’s a periodic table of cloud technologies.
