Kinetic, Control Center round out Cisco IoT platform
At the annual Cisco Live user conference in Las Vegas, “network intuitive” stole the majority of the news, but it was the company’s two significant announcements with respect to its Cisco IoT platform positioning that really stood out.
In the past, I’ve been somewhat critical of Cisco in IoT as it’s been one of the biggest evangelists for IoT, but its strategy has been unclear. Obviously, in a world where everything is connected, a company that connects things should thrive, but there seemed to be little else to its strategy. That changed last year when Cisco acquired IoT platform vendor Jasper.
IoT is certainly on every business leader’s mind, but going from concept to reality has its challenges. At June’s IoT World Forum in London, Cisco’s vice president of products and solutions marketing, Inbar Lasser-Raab, pointed to some research that found that only 26% of IoT projects are completed on time and on budget, with many failing at the proof-of-concept phase. IoT creates thousands of new connections and creates massive amounts of data, and businesses need a way to manage this complexity. The new Cisco IoT platform products are aimed to do that. Read more…