7 cool internet of things companies to watch

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Network World Cloud Computing Alert Aug 18, 2016 7 cool internet of things companies to watch Industry watcher CB Insights earlier this month showed that venture capital funding of internet of things companies is actually on the decline after years of growth. But we've still seen enough fresh funding in the months since we rounded up 10 Internet of Things companies to watch back in April, to justify doing this follow-up with 7 additional firms, most of them startups. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Google says its databases are enterprise ready • Cisco to jettison 5,500 jobs, will reinvest in cloud, IoT & more • How Lyft gets a lift from Amazon's cloud • IBM's big cloud win • Review: Chef 12 fires up devops • How the internet could increase global warming • Intel will provide early access to fast Optane SSDs via the cloud • Why private clouds will suffer a long, slow death • US says transfer of internet governance will go ahead on Oct. 1 Video/Webcast: Apollo Education Group Winning the Global War for IT Talent: How to Fast-Track Onboarding, Reskilling and Advanced Upskilling Presented in collaboration with The Iron Yard, this webinar explores how immersive, project-based learning experiences are helping employers to efficiently hire and train IT talent. Using real examples of successful talent strategies, industry leaders will show you ways to accelerate IT onboarding, retraining and advanced upskilling - so your company can keep up with the speed of change. Read More ▶ Google says its databases are enterprise ready Google is continuing its campaign to entice enterprises to its public cloud platform by rolling out database services stable enough to serve businesses in production. Read More ▶ Cisco to jettison 5,500 jobs, will reinvest in cloud, IoT & more During its earnings announcement the company said total revenue was $48.7 billion, an increase of 3% over last year. Still the company faces challenges in its core switching and routing business. Read More ▶ How Lyft gets a lift from Amazon's cloud Ride-hailing app Lyft launched in 2012 from Amazon Web Service's cloud. Today, the company processes about 14 million rides per month, all still from AWS. At the recent AWS Summit in New York Lyft CTO Chris Lambert described how using the cloud allowed Lyft to grow into the company it is today. Read More ▶ IBM's big cloud win After Salesforce chose Amazon Web Services as a development platform, Workday has chosen IBM SoftLayer for its IaaS needs. SaaS vendors are buddying up with IaaS providers to help build out their future applications. Read More ▶ Review: Chef 12 fires up devops A rich dev and test toolchain, collaborative end-to-end workflow, and improved Windows support put Chef in a league of its own Read More ▶ How the internet could increase global warming The huge anticipated growth of IoT threatens to use so much power that carbon emissions will be impossible to tame and global warming will escalate, researchers say. Read More ▶ Intel will provide early access to fast Optane SSDs via the cloud Intel isn't yet shipping its Optane SSDs, but they soon will be available for testing over the cloud. Read More ▶ Why private clouds will suffer a long, slow death While private cloud proponents have spent the last five years focusing on getting their IaaS offerings working, Amazon, Microsoft and Google have moved way beyond core computing services. And you don't have to strain to hear the death knell sounding for the private cloud. Read More ▶ US says transfer of internet governance will go ahead on Oct. 1 The U.S. will go ahead with its plan to hand over oversight of the internet's domain name system functions to a multistakeholder body on Oct. 1, despite fierce opposition from some lawmakers and advocacy groups. Read More ▶ White Paper: CA Technologies APM Essentials: Navigating the Maze of End User Experience Solutions This EMA white paper offers clarity into selecting Application Performance Management and End User Experience solutions. 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