John Spooner

Editor’s note: Oracle continues to expand its offerings for Internet of Things services as Technology Business Research Analyst John Spooner explains in the second of a two-part report. Part one focuses on Oracle’s overall IoT strategy. HAMPTON, N.H – Oracle IoT Cloud focuses on offering easy integration with Oracle’s Business Intelligence Mobile Cloud and can be offered as both a SaaS application and a PaaS offering. Interestingly, Oracle did not highlight Amazon Web Services, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) or Google as partners, indicating the company prefers to keep data inside its own cloud. Oracle also announced, through the combination of...

Editor’s note: Just as Cisco and IBM were announcing a partnership to push network analytics to the edge of networks as part of their Internet of Things strategy, so too did Hewlett Packard Enterprise. John Spooner, director of the Internet of Things and Devices Practice at Technology Business Research, takes a look. HAMPTON, N.H. – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is building its Internet of Things (IoT) business around what it sees as the rise of the digital enterprise, the result of a coming convergence of information technology and operational technology, driven by businesses’ needs to capture and rapidly assess...

Editor’s note: John Spooner is Director, Internet of Things (IoT) and Devices Practice at research firm Technology Business Research. HAMPTON, N.H. – Intel continues to expand its Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, with the aim of powering the broadest possible range of customers’ IoT solutions. The chipmaker is promoting real-world improvements created by a new lineup of Quark chips, Wind River operating systems, and cloud-based app development and device management tools to complement Atom and its system-on-a-chip offerings, such as Edison and Curie. It created the reference architecture, or blueprint, which it calls the Intel IoT Platform, to provide...