However, in a June 16 post on the company blog, Jeff Aboud and technology evangelist for IoT solutions at Cisco, said memory challenge attracts more than expected, after the networking giant to extend the deadline until July 1st. Cisco will pick up six winners, who will receive $ 50,000 to $ 75,000 each.Malthus So far, we have had dozens of wonderful submissions and they are still coming in. The challenge is was so popular that we decided to extend the period of two weeks.
The competition is the fusion of two Cisco favorite topics: security and the Internet of Things, or what Cisco calls the Internet for everything. How was it to develop ICT roots networking to a larger player in the data center become Cisco continues to function ICT security through its own development and acquisitions outside, built with the latest since buying ThreatGrid in May.
At the same time, CEO John Chambers and other company executives have said the Internet of Things is the most important transition in the technology industry since the Internet. Cisco last year created a business unit of the Internet dedicated objects.And for good reason.
Cisco estimates that no less than 50 billion devices and systems in the field of smartphones and tablets to televisions, home appliances, security cameras and production systems are met in the Internet and the other connected to the 2020. analysts IDC said that the Internet of Things market could reach $ 7.1 trillion by the same year.
At the same time, it means more connected grouping of devices has greatly expanded surface for cyber criminals increasingly sophisticated, feeding a growing number of people warn against security issues around the Internet of Things need to be addressed.
Cisco agreed. We all benefit from ensuring that the things that we are safe in the frame, he wrote. And with billions of networked objects worldwide, many of whom live in dangerous places, safety is probably more important for the Internet of Things, as it has-been to any other technology in history .
