Now that all the NFL teams have played a preseason game, there are two fan camps. One, those of the winning teams, feel good about the season. The other, fans of losing teams, say their guys didn’t play their starters and are hiding high-powered offenses during the preseason.

We made it to August! Congrats! NFL training camps have opened, and major league baseball only has another 50 or so games left, then basketball starts. Up north it’s starting to cool down, and down south there are only another six or eight weeks of serious heat.

Azure Security Center for IoT protects end-to-end IoT deployments by identifying and responding to emerging threats, as well as finds configuration issues before attackers can exploit them.

The Internet of Everything will be all-inclusive, from huge data centers to single-purpose sensors. While individual power requirements vary across the IoT, the need for energy efficiency will be present everywhere.

Seems like everyone goes to Las Vegas for a convention at least once every two years. If you’re there now or going in the next couple of weeks, there will be millions of other tourists in your way. Relax, not the entire state of Kansas, just grasshoppers.

The 30 pre-vetted solutions in the catalog cover use cases in strategic vertical industries. The enablement program is designed to help 200 partners get a revenue producing IoT solution to market in 90 days. 

The weather report (here’s a better Weather Report) has been seriously overheated recently, with 200 million people suffering through triple digit actual or feel-like temperatures. Where’s that nice cool polar vortex when you need it?

MSPs need to educate end users on IoT ROI, adopt a stronger security stance, and focus on hot verticals like agriculture, healthcare, and smart buildings.