Who Made Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT?

Hyperscale low-bandwidth IoT satellite constellations will soon power remote asset tracking, environmental monitoring, and agricultural telemetry.

In this week’s real-time analytics news: Sovereign Cloud efforts in the EU are heating up. SUSE launched a Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment to help businesses understand gaps in their digital strategy.

The real winners in satellite IoT in 2026 will be those who treat resilience, migration planning, and data discipline as strategic priorities.

For manufacturing organizations that embraced smart manufacturing in 2025, the payoff extended beyond operational metrics to strategic value creation.

Quantum disruption is coming. Readiness built through knowledge, crypto-agility, and thoughtful prioritization will create organizational resilience now without forcing exorbitant investments later.

Enterprise delivery is entering a phase where AI agents operate with autonomy, making decisions, initiating workflows, and even coordinating across functions without waiting for human approval.

The IBM acquisition of Confluent is indicative of the tech world’s fixation on real-time data streaming. However, the more pressing issue is the overwhelming volume of unstructured documents that hold the critical context that real-time AI often overlooks.

Small businesses should focus on AI’s strengths, explore how it can boost employee performance, and avoid letting the technology have the last word in any area of operations.