What a week we’ve had at M2M Evolution—The M2M news out of CeBIT has been pretty exciting, it seems like everyone is starting to take signal security seriously, it looks like Microsoft is making a play to control a huge piece of the IoT and the sun is out to get us all.
And that’s just one week. No one can accuse us of working in a boring industry, that’s for sure.
Beginning with CeBIT, which ended March 20, and where on March 16 Samsung announced its biggest push into M2M to date with the Samsung Business suite for enterprise IoT solutions. The platform targets key industries, seeking to address needs in the retail, education, hospitality, transportation, and logistics spheres with tailored programs.
Samsung also addressed security concerns within the new suite, and it’s a good thing. According to studies by Symantec, HP and several technology research firms, the IoT is on the brink of a big problem, if security concerns aren’t addressed soon. Want some proof? Take a look at SHODAN. Never heard of it? Well, you’ll wish you hadn’t.
In M2M Evolution news, our fearless leader Carl Ford hooked you up with a free series of educational webinars that outlined how to get lean, mean and profitable with your next M2M deployment.
Microsoft held its annual Convergence in Atlanta this week and CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the company’s all new Azure IoT suite, which is laser targeted at the M2M ecosystem, like the apex predator Microsoft is. Another key announcement is that the soon-to-be-released Windows 10 will be chock-full of M2M-enabled software. Big blue is looking to get back to the top of the hill, and if it does it right it will.
Finally, in a bit of apocalyptic apocrypha, the sun cast its evil eye of Sauron upon the planet this week and caused a rare severe geomagnetic storm, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center. This storm could, conceivably, have interrupted power grids and satellite communications, but it didn’t so, no worries. Lovely Northern Lights all week, though.
That’s just a little tease of everything we had for you this week at M2M Evolution, so go ahead and make sure you poke around and read all our top stories. And don’t forget: if you have questions, comments, input or abuse, please send it to our new editorial director, Ken Briodagh at [email protected] or on Twitter @KenBriodagh.
Happy Spring, and we’ll see you next week!
