It’s 2020 and employees expect a lot from their workplace. No longer are they OK with clumsy key cards, hunting for parking spaces and searching for the correct conference room.

Pivot3, a provider of intelligent infrastructure solutions, is providing its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software platform to Lenovo Datacenter Group (DCG) to deliver integrated edge computing solutions optimized for mission critical smart city and safe campus environments.

In an increasingly connected world, emerging technologies are impacting every aspect of our lives and businesses.

Fantasy has caught up with reality; smart home and connected living is going mainstream.

IdenTrust (part of HID Global), a leading trusted provider of digital certificates, and Device Authority, a global leader in identity and access management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced a strategic alliance with a vision to provide trusted identity lifecycle management for enterprises on their digital transformation journey.

Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives to improve the cybersecurity of Internet-connected devices.

This year the editors compiled the top stories of the year as featured in SDM’s various e-newsletters. Below are the top 10 stories as featured on our website and delivered to you through SDM e-news and Today’s Systems Integrator e-news.

It was almost two years ago when I wrote my first Smart Insights article touting the arrival of the smart home and likening the elements of the smart home to pieces of a puzzle that needed to be solved. Since then, that market certainly has exploded. The smart home and smart office are here to stay.

Some folks may not know it but I started my own integration business, The Automation Link Inc. (TALI), in 1989 and put on the side of my van, “The Leader in Home Automation.” I was 20 years ahead of my time.