Finnish telecom provider Nokia announced collaborations with AWS, Google, and Microsoft designed to accelerate its Open RAN and Cloud RAN leadership by leveraging its advanced equipment portfolio and combining it with the cloud.

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with investors led by Accel-KKR to acquire Seequent—a leader in software for geological and geophysical modeling

Many industrial companies have passive cybersecurity programs that can’t deal with today’s sophisticated threat environment or ensure the security of broad remote worker enablement and digital transformation programs. Industrial companies need active defense programs that can stop sophisticated attackers before they impact operations and threaten worker safety. Many see IT-OT Cybersecurity Convergence as a cost-effective way to address today’s and tomorrow’s cybersecurity challenges. The recent ARC Industry Forum, which was held virtually this year for the first time, included a substantial cybersecurity program, and managing this convergence of IT and OT cybersecurity domains was discussed in several sessions.

As part of our ongoing series of executive interviews for the 2021 ARC Industry Forum, we sat down with aDolus CEO and industry cybersecurity luminary Eric Byres to talk about some of the most pressing problems facing end-users in industrial cybersecurity.  Eric was the inventor of the Tofino security appliance, which was the first firewall specifically designed for industrial applications.  Eric's current company aDolus tackles a different but no less vexing problem, the vulnerability of industrial systems to supply chain hacks through malware-laden updates and patches similar to what we saw with the SolarWinds attack. 

Expro Group and Frank's International announced a definitive agreement under which the companies will combine in an all-stock transaction to create a Leading Full-Cycle Service Provider

C3 AI, an enterprise AI software provider, and Infor, an ERP technology cloud provider, announced a wide-ranging strategic alliance designed to jointly expand Scalable Enterprise AI Industry Applications

The client wanted to design and develop a highly durable, productive, fuel efficient, next generation 7-ton excavator. 

COVID-19 implications for data centers have been favorable, despite the global economic downturn.  Information technology infrastructure providers and internet service providers are seeing demand increase primarily because of digital transformation and remote working.  Mergers and acquisitions are going ahead in many cases, as most of them were started before the lockdown.

The client was looking for vehicular cybersecurity implementation for ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) ECU (electronic control units) production to protect the vehicle’s data stored in the network.

Microsoft unveiled the public preview of Azure Percept, a platform of hardware and services that aims to simplify the ways in which customers can use Azure AI technologies on the edge

Siemens Limited has completed a previously announced acquisition of India’s C&S Electric’s low voltage switchgear and busbar businesses for $285 million (Rs. 21 billion). 

NXP announced its integrated Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) solutions for industrial automation that now support the CC-Link IE TSN protocol, combining gigabit Ethernet bandwidth with TSN to strengthen time sharing communication, performance, security and functionality for industrial Ethernet.

Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron Corporation, Microsoft and Clean Energy Systems announced  plans to develop a bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project designed to produce Carbon Negative Bioenergy in Mendota, California.

Our recent meeting to record this ARC Digital Transformation Viewpoints Podcast on Digitalizing Industries in Southeast Asia reflected in many ways the transition of automation to digitalization, as we discussed things almost completely unknown in 2010

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the acquisition of E7 Pty Ltd, a Brisbane, Australia-based supplier in field-based Civil Construction Software