A MarketsandMarkets report projects the industrial security systems market to hit $38 billion by 2020 from $25 billion in 2014. The report indicates that the market will achieve an 8.69 percent compound annual growth rate over the six-year forecast period, ASDReports said Wednesday. The analysis covers the industrial security systems market for the North America, […] More

John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, forecasts that Internet of Things and digital technologies will transform organizations and be at the forefront of market transitions, he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday. “I think in this next decade, information technology will be in vogue again,” he told WSJ reporter Scott Thurm. […] More

Cisco has released a new report that analyzes threat intelligence and cybersecurity trends and examines how organizations must respond to cyber attacks. The company said Tuesday cyber criminals are expanding their tactics to conduct cyber attacks using methods that Cisco says are hard to detect. “Attackers have become more proficient at taking advantage of gaps […] More

A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts that the global industrial security systems market will achieve an 8.69-percent compound annual growth rate to reach a market value of $38 billion by 2020. The firm said Thursday that the report includes an analysis of the market based on system type, end user, service, component and geography as well as market drivers, restraints, […] More

Cisco has moved to expand its server portfolio for SAP HANA platform through the launch of a new server product. The company designed the newly-certified 8 socket C880 to work with SAP analytics and suite on HANA workloads, Cisco said Thursday. Satinder Sethi writes Cisco collaborated with SAP on the certification of the C880 server platform. “We are pleased that Cisco Systems […] More

Siemens has won a $648 million contract to build 175 light rail cars for the city of San Francisco’s Muni transit system. The company will build the trains at its Sacramento, California-based plant and deliver the initial lot in 2016, with an option to deliver an additional 85 cars, Siemens said Friday. Siemens will design the light rail cars […] More

The Transaction Processing Performance Council has rolled out a new benchmarking tool to cater to big data systems that Cisco’s Raghunath Nambiar indicated have become a “critical” element of a company’s information technology platform. TPCx-HS aims to generate vendor-neutral reports on hardware and software performance, including metrics for price and energy consumption, TPC said Monday. […] More

Cisco has deployed technology at Transwestern Property Management‘s Pennzoil Plaza in Houston to help turn the 39-year-old building into an “infrastructure of the future” with a centralized management system that includes energy consumption controls. According to a video posted Thursday on the Cisco website, the “Internet of Everything” applied to infrastructure management systems has brought efficiency in operations. […] More

Exelis has been selected by San Francisco International airport to provide ground vehicle and aircraft surveillance offerings to improve airport safety. Exelis is set to provide SFO with its Symphony vehicle movement area transponder (VMAT) and Symphony MobileVue FAA-approved solutions, what is the sixth airport to use Exelis systems. Ted Carniol, general manager for commercial aviation solutions at Exelis, said that […] More

Cisco and TeleCommunication Systems have partnered to combine their mobility and geospatial emergency messaging platforms with the goal of helping first responders track 911 cellphone calls. TCS will demonstrate its GEM9-1-1 data mapping technology with Cisco’s Wi-Fi-based Mobility Services Engine at this week’s NENA Annual Conference in Nashville, Tenn., TCS said Monday. According to TCS, […] More

Cisco has appointed Dinesh Malkani, Amit Phadnis and V.C. Gopalratnam to oversee the company’s business in India, covering engineering, sales, information technology and support functions, in support of the country’s national transformation efforts. The company said June 5 Malkani will serve as president of sales, Phadnis as president of engineering and site leader and Gopalratnam as president of strategy, planning […] More

Cisco, Kloudtrack and the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have teamed up to develop a sandbox exchange intended to help fulfill various technology guideline requirements of healthcare communities. The public and private sector healthcare community, as well as medical and life science organizations, will have access to the HealthTech Innovation Sandbox […] More