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ExxonMobil, VMware on running OT workloads on IT systems

Standardizing interoperable, open, secure industrial control architectures LAS VEGAS--ExxonMobil has a vision for technology enablement marked by a long-term shift from closed IT and OT systems to open, secure, standards-based systems that promote value creation. A tricky problem unique to heavy industries, however, is that...

Mission-critical cloud storage market to double to top $103 billion by 2028

Another day, another forecast; this one from Informa-owned analyst company Omdia, which says global market revenue from “mission-critical” data centre storage will reach $103 billion by 2028. The projected growth is down to more sales and higher prices, it said, as digital transformation extends...

HPE to buy Morpheus Data to simplify and optimize hybrid cloud operations

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is to acquire Colorado-based hybrid cloud management provider Morpheus Data, as part of its strategy to be a one-stop shop for sundry enterprise cloud services, alongside its enterprise connectivity play. It said Morpheus Data will solidify its position as the...

Three Industry 4.0 pressure points – to keep future OT systems humming

This is a postscript to the news-post yesterday (August 14) about a mad rush of Industry 4.0 data over the next five years, which ABI Research forecasts will multiply in industrial venues from some unknown (or un-shared, in the press note) start-point today, where...

4.4 ZB of OT data by 2030 – 10m factories to produce as much as 9bn mobile subs

Some scratch-your-head stats just in from ABI Research: the manufacturing industry will generate 4.4 zettabytes of data worldwide by 2030, almost equivalent to the annual volume of data carried by global mobile networks to connect mostly-consumer applications. ABI Research calls the figure, pulled from...

Network slicing – a useful 5G tool (but not more) to build enterprise solutions

One thing seems clear, after a couple of announcements in recent weeks and several years in the doldrums: network slicing is coming, and it will make a new virtue of nationally-available 5G networks for enterprises. Last week, the analyst community debunked a few myths...

Mining company Newmont green-lights private 5G from Ericsson at all global sites

US gold mining company Newmont Corporation is to junk Wi-Fi in favour of 5G on its remote controlled and autonomous machinery at its major mining operations in Australia, Africa, Latin America, and North America. The decision comes after a private 5G trial with Ericsson...

Swisscom deploys Nokia drone fleet for public safety and industrial monitoring

Swisscom Broadcast is working with Nokia to deploy a nationwide drone network of 300 drones for the emergency services, public safety, and private industrial sectors. It follows the same model as Nokia’s drone rollout in Belgium with Citymesh, and is expected to pass it...

HPE beefs up cyber defence for enterprise networks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has beefed up its cyber defence offer for enterprise networks with the addition of behavioural analytics to its detection and response capabilities and zero-trust access to its campus network proposition. The latter covers local-area edge networks, including its private 4G...

Nokia intros autonomous drone inventory-counting for US warehouse customers

Nokia has added a new drone-mounted automated counting function to its inventory monitoring service for warehouse customers in the US. It slots into its autonomous drone product, offered as part of its so-called Nokia AIMS (Autonomous Inventory Monitoring Service) package of drone-based logistics tools....

Is network slicing coming of age, finally? ‘You’re having a laugh, right?’

A couple of interesting-sounding mission-critical slicing exercises by mobile operators in Europe in the last week or so got RCR Wireless to thinking about whether the slow rollout of standalone 5G (5G SA) in national network infrastructure has reached a point where it is...

Enterprises to spend $7bn per year on 18,000 private 4G/5G networks by 2028

Want more private 4G/5G market forecasts? Of course you do, and market research firm Kaleido Intelligence has come up with a humdinger: enterprises will spend over $7 billion per year on private 4G/5G networks by 2028, it says. Which sounds like a lot; but...

Vodafone turns on LTE-M in the UK, claims a full house of IoT tech

Vodafone has said enterprise customers in the UK now have all the necessary cellular-based IoT tools at their disposal, after it switched on LTE-M services in its home market. The operator, which has hitherto steered customers looking to connect battery-powered IoT monitoring applications onto...

Five obstacles for Industry 4.0 (ah, technology – all mouth, no trousers)

Digging into this new Cisco survey about the state of networking in the Industry 4.0 sector, which says the industrial c-suite is being driven to distraction by the risk and reward of artificial intelligence (AI), reveals certain things. They are hardly revelatory; but, again,...

Gen AI will be all over enterprise software in two years – says Capgemini poll

If you work with software, in any industry, then you’ll be using gen AI before you know it, if you aren’t already. This is the conclusion of an interesting study by Capgemini into the most hyped technology out there. And the early results are...

Celona appoints German integrator Xantaro to sell private 5G in Europe

Germany-based managed system integrator Xantaro Group has been recruited by US private networks specialist Celona to sell its private 5G system into European enterprises. Celona joins Nokia, at least, in its roster of private 5G products. It flagged the viability of the Celona system...

AI risk and reward is driving Industry 4.0 c-suite to distraction, says Cisco study

Cisco has just issued a research study about the state of networking in the broad Industry 4.0 sector, and it is really good – comprehensive, and well communicated. Quite how much of it is genuinely new or surprising is open to debate, but it...

Deloitte acquires Industry 4.0 system integrator in Australia

Professional services firm Deloitte has acquired small specialist Industry 4.0 consutancy and integrator Efficientia Solutions in Australia. A press note said the “team” at Efficientia Solutions, comprising seven staff, has joined the Australian branch of Deloitte, to support its industrial and manufacturing consultancy and...

India designates 12 new smart industrial cities – to take total to 2

The Indian government is to build a total of 12 new industrial smart cities in various states to drive domestic manufacturing in the country. These join eight urban manufacturing centres that are already under development. The department of industry and trade revealed progress with...

NIST makes $70m funding offer for new US industrial AI institute

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US is offering up to $70 million in funding for a new Manufacturing USA institute to develop AI for productivity and security for the US manufacturing sector. It has opened a competition and requested...

Cisco, Rockwell Automation to boost industrial digital transformation in APAC

Rockwell Automation said that the deal with Cisco aims to enable manufacturers in APAC to optimize operations and enhance productivity Cisco and Rockwell Automation announced a collaboration focused on boosting digital transformation of the industrial market in the Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China region. In...

BAE Systems appoints Siemens to develop Industry 4.0 ‘blueprint’

Aerospace and defence firm BAE Systems, the biggest manufacturer in the UK and the biggest defence contractor in Europe, has appointed Siemens on a five-year deal to develop a “strategic blueprint” for smart manufacturing within its design and production disciplines. The pair are old...

‘Deep enthusiasm’ – 90% of firms finding ‘unexpected’ AI uses, finds Honeywell poll

A survey by US-based Honeywell says “only” less than one in five (17 percent of) AI “influencers” in enterprises have “fully implemented initial AI plans”. Which is a statistic that might be taken the other way, too; to say so many are already on...

Hrvatski Telekom slices public 5G for ‘private’ 5G at major new smart port in Croatia

Port operators APM Terminals and ENNA Group have tapped Deutsche Telekom subsidiary Hrvatski Telekom for a ‘private’ slice of its public 5G network at their joint-venture development at the new Port of Rijeka, set to be the largest shipping port in Croatia when it...