“To Edge or not the Edge”
· Connected Industry

“To Edge or not the Edge”

The emergence of Edge Computing in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has become a cost prohibitive, expensive trend. Overall interest in Edge Computing has risen in the IIoT space because of confusion between the exact needs of IIoT vs. Industry 4.0. For simple definitional clarity, Industry 4.0 technology is destined for the industrial factory; […]

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Avrohom Gottheil, CEO
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Avrohom Gottheil, CEO

Avrohom Gottheil increases global brands’ revenue and market share. He’s the CEO of New York based SimiPlex Technologies, LLC, where he leverages 20+ years in Telecom to enable people to chat with their smart devices as easily as they speak with each other. He is a Top-ranked global IoT expert by Postscapes.com, and a frequent […]

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Key Questions You Should Ask Your Industrial Video Provider
· Connected Industry

Key Questions You Should Ask Your Industrial Video Provider

Frequently, video solutions intended for industrial use are purchased by the organization’s security department. In most organizations, operations and security are different departments.  This often provides budget, control, and integration challenges within the organization. Treating the video system as part of the SCADA system rather than the security system helps to clearly delineate video’s use, […]

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Aaron Allsbrook, Chief Technology Officer
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Aaron Allsbrook, Chief Technology Officer

Aaron Allsbrook, ClearBlade CTO and product visionary for the ClearBlade Platform and EDGE brings decades of application tooling development and runtime experience to the emerging technologies in the Internet of Things.  Early on, Aaron engineered software at IBM building scalable performant platforms for developers to design, develop, and execute modern workloads.  As a practitioner, Aaron […]

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Serg Posadas, VP of Industry Solutions
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Serg Posadas, VP of Industry Solutions

Serg Posadas leads the delivery of data science services at Clockwork Solutions. He brings depth of experience to Clockwork in technical and strategic leadership. Serg has been with Clockwork for eight years following a 22-yr Marine Corps career. He applied predictive analytics and data science in his career as an aviator and operations analyst. Serg […]

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Defending ICS and SCADA Systems from Cyber Attacks
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Defending ICS and SCADA Systems from Cyber Attacks

As Operational Technologies (OT) for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) proliferate and converge with enterprise IT systems, CSOs and CIOs need to assess the risks with their growing attack surface. Top of the list should be looking at the potential threats and cyber attacks emanating from the network, given the convergence of OT and […]

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Top 100 Global Industrial IoT Influencers in October
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Top 100 Global Industrial IoT Influencers in October

Discussion of the Industrial IoT (IIoT) or the Fourth Wave of the Internet is ubiquitous in the media, at industry conferences, and in manufacturing. According to a recent report released by The MPI Group, 90% of manufacturing executives believe that the IoT will have a significant or some impact on business in general over the […]

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Smart city market is growing but fragmentation defines its current state
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Smart city market is growing but fragmentation defines its current state

The smart city market can be observed through various lenses; however, through all of them, fragmentation is the current state. The smart city market continues to grow, presenting great opportunities for all players, despite its current fragmented state, according to IHS Markit. This fragmentation appears in the type of smart city projects developed, in the […]

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How to build a strong Industrial Cybersecurity routine
· Cybersecurity

How to build a strong Industrial Cybersecurity routine

General Douglas MacArthur once said, “There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.”  These thoughts from a military man living in an analog world fit directly to today’s quest for smarter manufacturing in a safer environment. This is especially true in the globalized, regionalized, just-in-time business operations of today and tomorrow. Federal and […]

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Save the date: November 9, 2017 Integr8™ Industry 4.0 Event in Detroit, Mi
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Save the date: November 9, 2017 Integr8™ Industry 4.0 Event in Detroit, Mi

Automation Alley will host a conference about Industry 4.0 on November 9th, 2017. The Integr8™ event is a global Industry 4.0 conference focused on the eight technologies that are disrupting the manufacturing industry with over 500 tech, manufacturing leaders, business executives expected to attend the first Industry 4.0 conference of its kind. IIoT World’s co-founder, […]

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8 technologies that an organization can adopt to help address its cybersecurity challenges
· Cybersecurity

8 technologies that an organization can adopt to help address its cybersecurity challenges

In defining policies and procedures around the implementation and management of security controls in an enterprise environment, the organization is advised to adopt a cybersecurity framework to overcome challenges. This is a series of documented processes that can provide the baseline best practices to help the organization plan, design and deploy security controls on cyberthreats. […]

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