Joe McKendrick

The Internet of Things offers new business models beyond merely vertical use cases.

Until recently, the City of Philadelphia had no traffic operations center, but now they can see what’s happening on roads in real time.

The IoT can open a Pandora’s box of security vulnerabilities. Here’s how to keep the lid closed:

Machine learning can optimize business decisions, but the decision reached by an algorithm often isn’t transparent.

Running Spark on the mainframe can be advantageous because data is co-located. One use is fraud detection.

Red Roof Inn, after capitalizing on micro-moments, saw a remarkable 60 percent increase in bookings.

From maintenance experts to solution sellers, the industrial IoT offers numerous career opportunities.

An extreme transaction processing system could be used for anything from mobile app purchases to ecommerce and the Internet of Things.

At the end of the day, blockchain is enterprise software, says Pete Harris of Lighthouse Partners. But moving from concept proofs to production will require heavy lifting, scalability, and security.

The Internet of Things will displace workers, but open new opportunities for those who make IoT automation possible.

The targets “are meant to keep us focused on our goals.”

Some cyberattacks are simply not possible using blockchain, but data volume and storage are challenges for the technology.