"Sifuna ukudlulisa umyalezo oqinile kothisha abacabanga ukuthi bangashaya izingane, ngeke sikuvumele lokho. Ukushaywa kwabafundi akuvumelekile.” Containers are not being considered for the first time by the cloud community, but a current era of re-consideration has pushed them to the top of the cloud agenda. With the launch of Docker's initial release in March of 2013, interest was revved up several notches. Then late last...May. 5, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,956Monitoring an Ear of Corn with an IoT Sensor?By Kevin BenedictOnce upon a time, farmers would walk through a field or ride a horse around it to determine the amount of fertilizer and water their crops required. I have done this myself. Today agricultural drones with sensors and analysis software can fly over large fields and analyze the crops and their needs precisely in seconds. If we wanted to get even more ambitious, we could place an IoT (Internet of Things) sensor next to every stalk of corn to monitor and optimize its growth. Although these steps are all feasible today, some are not yet economically advantageous. That might, however, soon chan...May. 5, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,200Can We Predict the Size of the IoT Market?By Judith HurwitzI had a very interesting discussion the other day with an executive for a technology company. He had just come from a presentation about the Internet of Things (IoT) market. The presenter projected that the market would be valued at around $7 trillion market within the next decade. What did I think about this projection? Is it correct? Is this the true size of the market? Now, as a disclaimer, I don’t do market sizing. I assume that those smart people who figure out how big or small a market will be use sound judgment. However, I don’t think that as we sit at the dawn of this new era we can tr...May. 5, 2015 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,183Intelligent Process Automation, Siri and MoreBy Kevin BenedictIn this interview we discuss Rob Brown's recent white paper titled Robots and I, the different forms of robots, and then dig deep into how software robots are transforming many industries today with expert Matt Smith. Enjoy!