A multi-cloud strategy has become the status quo for many organisations. It provides access to the broadest range of cloud services and best-of-breed technologies, along with a reduced risk of vendor lock-in. As a result, most organisations will use a number of the most popular service options alongside more niche or localised offerings.

Use cases for the Internet of Things (IoT) range from trucks, to shipping containers, to people, to cows. An organisation’s assets can be mobile, autonomous, even sentient - and the applications for tracking these assets are as limitless as the assets themselves. Analysts have identified asset tracking as the fastest growing industrial IoT market and it is expected that most connected devices will be location aware within the next decade.

In this blog, Divesh Gupta, VP of New Technology & Sales Operations at Console Connect, and Co-Chair of MEF’s Test & Certification Committee, shares his insights on the work Console Connect is doing behind-the-scenes to extend our automation capabilities to the network edge. Service providers across the world now find themselves at different stages of their automation journey.

Having achieved almost consumer-grade accessibility, public cloud adoption is increasingly driven by individual business functions. Enterprise teams no longer need to understand how the technology works, or even where the service operates from. To buy a cloud product they just need a web browser and a credit card. But this level of simplicity raises challenges of its own when it comes to regulatory concerns.