Tag: cloud
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Simplifying Real-Time Location Tracking with Cloud-Delivered AI for Supply Chain
In this episode of the Digital Supply Chain podcast, I sat down with Adrian Jennings, the Chief Product Officer of Cognosos. Cognosos provides real-time location intelligence solutions for the logistics and healthcare industries. Their aim is to bring the location intelligence technology that is now common in our personal lives to the enterprise level of…
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Digital Supply Chain, Industry 4.0, and IoT/Edge Computing – a chat with Elvira Wallis (aka @ElviraWallis)
On this second Digital Supply Chain podcast on the theme of Industry 4.0, I had a great chat with Elvira Wallis (@ElviraWallis on Twitter and Elvira Wallis on LinkedIn). Elvira is the Global Head of IoT at SAP, so obviously I was keen to find out her take on how Digital Supply Chain, IoT and…
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The Internet of Things – trends for the telecoms, data centre, and utility industries
I gave the closing keynote at an event in Orlando last week on the topic of The Impact of the Internet of Things on Telcos, Data Centres, and Utilities. The slides by themselves can be a little hard to grok, so I’ll go through them below. I should note at the outset that while many…
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Apple puts its environmental initiatives front and centre at its spring event
Apple held it’s annual spring event yesterday in Palo Alto to make iPhone, iPad, and iOS related announcements (amongst others). However, this year for a change the first executive invited to address the audience was Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, former EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson. Lisa was greeted by warm applause which became…
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Libelium launches its IoT Marketplace to make Internet of Things projects as painless as possible
In a time when Spain’s economy is in the doldrums, it is nice to see some good news coming out of the Iberian peninsula, especially in the Internet of Things (IoT) space – technology’s new hotness! Libelium, an IoT hardware and software provider based in the North of Spain, and recently profiled in a Financial…
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IBM acquires Weather.com for Cloud, AI (aaS), and IoT
IBM has announced the completion of the acquisition The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web-properties, weather.com, Weather Underground, The Weather Company brand and WSI, its global business-to-business brand. At first blush this may not seem like an obvious pairing, but the Weather Company’s products are not just their free apps for your smartphone, they…
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Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions
We have highlighted often enough what a poor job some cloud companies are doing of making their cloud infrastructure cleaner, and being transparent about their emissions. Against that backdrop, it is heartening to see some more enlightened cloud companies doing the right thing. Salesforce announced today its second renewable energy purchase agreement. The first announcement,…
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Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center
Equinix is powering one of its Silicon Valley data centers with a 1MW Bloom Energy fuel cell