Internet of Things (IoT)

The great crew change is a common term used across the industrial sector to describe the ongoing retirement of a large body of experienced workers in factories and construction, although it started with the oil & gas and mining industries.

The Internet of Things market is maturing from early enthusiasm to specific use cases with tangible benefits. With this maturity has come deeper understanding of which venues are best for specific tasks and workloads, which sensors provide the most benefits, and more approachable development tools for IoT deployments.

In this report, we look at the differing affordances of games to help shed a light on the challenges that certain types of applications present regarding expectations for edge and cloud deployment and network usage.

Smart cities hold tremendous potential for municipalities and their citizens -- as well as the vendors and service providers that help make them possible. While other technology and Internet of Things solution areas may get more attention (and investment), the ability to leverage communications and information technologies to address urban challenges represents a significant market opportunity.

Cisco's CX initiative, announced a year ago, is an ambitious strategy to transform the business model of the company and its channel to market. The plan is to enable and support annuity-based revenue streams as technology becomes more complex and demanding for customer IT teams.

Two industry terms that are widely used, often conflated and poorly defined are ‘edge computing’ and ‘fog computing.’ The purpose of this report is to provide clarity around these two terms, what they signify, key enabling technologies and customer adoption, as well as the market opportunity.