ISPs Act to Block Title II Reclassification in Net Neutrality Rules
On May 1, AT&T, CenturyLink, as well as U.S. telecom and cable industry groups petitioned the FCC to block parts of new Net Neutrality rules. They cited “crushing” compliance costs and threats to...
View ArticleIoT Platforms
The Internet of Things (IoT) breeds scale and complexity. Large scale and complexity draws in enterprise providers. To solve such challenges, enterprise providers announce, build, and manage technology...
View ArticleNews from Notables at Internet of Things World
The second annual Internet of Things World 2015 conference was held last week in San Francisco. The conference hosted 4,000 attendees, 250 speakers, and 150 exhibitors. The focus for 2015 was on...
View ArticleSalesforce Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth?
Last week, Saugatuck attended the Salesforce World Tour in Washington, DC. According to Salesforce.com representatives, attendance was higher than expected, with 5,000 registered for this regional...
View ArticleCisco Live 2015: Dream On, or Just Push Play?
What is Happening? At the conclusion of this week’s Cisco Live event in San Diego, we walked away with a feeling that the company, while demonstrating the correct market vision and being...
View ArticleAre Smart Watches a Viable Enterprise App Platform?
Smartwatches are all the rage, with recent announcements and deliveries from Apple, Motorola, LG, Samsung, and others. Android Wear celebrates its first anniversary, and the Apple Watch reaches U.S....
View ArticleOracle Cloud Moves are an Aggressive Play in Late Innings
What is Happening? On Monday June 22 – on the heels of its latest quarterly financial reports indicating small-but-fast-growing Cloud-related revenues – Oracle announced expansion of the Oracle Cloud...
View ArticleInternet of Things, Threats, Traffic, and Togetherness
A new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report estimates the potential economic value of the IoT (see The Internet of Things: Mapping the value beyond the hype) at $3.9 trillion to $11.1 trillion per...
View ArticleEarth to Cloud – Shifting Trends in Location-based Services
Location is central to Digital Business applications. Over the last decade, large providers invested in mapping and location-based services. But in 2015 many of these providers are shifting courses....
View ArticleEsri Plans to Save the World, One Map at a Time
What is Happening? Saugatuck attended the Esri User Conference this week in San Diego. The venerable GIS company touted its wares in the form of customer success stories. In the map...
View ArticleSurvey Says: Workloads Are Moving to Cloud Infrastructures
In 1Q2015 Saugatuck executed a global Web-based Cloud Infrastructure Survey and compiled the responses from 327 IT executives spanning major geographies and business sizes. The survey results appear in...
View ArticleGE Drives into Cloud Services Market with the Roar of its Predix Engine
What is Happening? GE announced Predix Cloud, a new Cloud infrastructure offering for industrial data and analytics to supplement its existing Predix Platform, with plans to launch to the...
View ArticleUsing Business Data More Effectively: Incorporate Location
Businesses do not effectively use enough of their data. Period. But, as is explained in a Strategic Perspective published for Saugatuck Technology CRS subscription research clients, their lack of use...
View ArticleSmart Cities and the Interactive, Interlinked Future of IT
What is Happening? This week, Saugatuck Distinguished Analyst Ron Exler participated in the inaugural Smart Cities Week conference in Washington, D.C. The conference attracted a solid...
View ArticlePoor Interoperability Will Slow the IoT
At least half of the expected real economic value of the IoT will come from interoperability – connecting devices to each other and external systems. But interoperability in the IoT is costly and...
View ArticleData Insanity Will Slow the IoT
The promise of the IoT is improved service interactions between business and their customers, and between governments and their citizens. Realizing these promises relies on collecting, managing, and...
View ArticleGE’s Minds + Machines Focuses on Industrial Change for Survival
This week GE met with customers and partners for the fourth annual Minds + Machines conference. In his keynote, available for replay online, CEO Jeff Immelt said that Industrial Internet value is...
View ArticleIT Service Providers’ IoT Approaches
The Internet of Things (IoT) is complex. IT service providers face significant and ongoing changes as they help their clients innovate for growth. These providers need to help clients understand and...
View ArticleAhead of the Cloud Business Summit: Internet of Things—What’s a Leader to Do?
The use and value of the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow at a rapid clip over the next few years, driven by real-world applications using innovative technologies and applications. A recent Capgemini...
View ArticleCisco, Ericsson Partner on Networks, IoT, Mobility and More
This week, Cisco and Ericsson announced a broad-reaching and, in many ways, unprecedented partnership regarding Cloud, IoT, mobility, and more. The partnership focus is on network transformation for...
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