Manjuprakash Rama Rao, Director - Advanced Research and Development from Tyco International said "There is tremendous value for businesses to adopt M2M, gain insights and monetize the data aggregated from "connected things." He also added that the solution ecosystem and standardization effort can play a significant impact in accelerating the adoption. Pravin Bhandarkar, Senior Product Manager, Juniper Networks in his session on "Specific Trends in Routing Protocols" highlighted that "data networking control plane is undergoing a rapid change requiring network vendors to provide resilient, scalable and programmable capabilities to support new business models. Border Gateway protocol provides a robust and widely deployed Layer 3 building block to support these services both within and across domains." Ramakrishna Rama, Director - Software Engineering, Dell during his session on "Embedded Management in Server / Telecom Computing Platforms" explained how embedded systems management has evolved from basic Hardware inventory and monitoring to software enriched advanced remote management features without the need of an Operating System running on the computing platform, let's say server. He also mentioned the various dedicated and powerful SoC based solutions to provide systems management remotely. The IPMI � Intelligent Platform Management Interface is an open standard that has been widely accepted in the industry for low level HW monitoring and Inventory. It also serves as a basic building block overall high availability advanced systems management solution; and it can easily be mapped or integrated with other upper layer open standards such as SAF HPI for telecom / datacom and DMTF CIM/WS. |