The same technologies arming your clients with powerful new capabilities are also exposing them to new threats. Here’s how to mitigate those dangers.

A new set of switches, routers, developer tools, solution blueprints, and training resources collectively seeks to help organizations design, deploy, integrate, and manage Internet of Things solutions more easily.

This is a good week to “shelter in place” for two reasons. First, weather patterns seem to have mistaken the middle and eastern parts of the U.S. for Siberia. Second, Super Bowl LIII (53 in modern numbers) hype has started on all media platforms.

IoTPlaybook insight: Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu Linux operating system software, made their pitch to the IoT and embedded systems community with Ubuntu Core 18. Based on Ubuntu 18,04 LTS (Long Term Support) from April 2018, the cut-down OS includes a decade of support.

Grindstone and nose should be in tight proximity since we’ve had a full week of non-holiday time.

Under the IIC umbrella, the combined membership will accelerate the adoption of the IIoT, fog and edge computing

IotTPlaybook insight: The nice folks at NETSCOUT keep their eyes on all things security.

IoTPlaybook insight: Microsoft has been in the IoT device approval business for a while, and Azure supports many IoT devices as a cloud destination for data collection and more.

Winter is not yet here (December 21) but snow is. While “snow” and “southeast” may be alliterative, it’s unseasonal, especially when two feet of white stuff fall in various parts of the Carolinas (North and South).