IBM and Cisco snuggle up to add Watson AI and edge analytics to the IoT TheINQUIRER

IBM'S ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) will be mixed with Cisco's data analytics to help make sense of the data hoovered up by the Internet of Things (IoT). The partnership will use the IBM Watson AI with Cisco's ability to carry out data analysis on at the edge of IoT networks rather than waiting for all that information to be pushed back to a central point. The companies explained that this will make data analysis in the IoT faster and allow customers to act on the information as soon as possible. Organisations are trying to make better use of data as devices become more intelligent and connected to corporate networks, and one of the problems is the process of actually gathering the data, according to IBM. "Today, in a typical industrial deployment, only one per cent of IoT data is actually analysed. Legacy processes and drawbacks in current IoT platforms make it too expensive and slow to analyse the other 99 per cent," said Chris O'Connor, general manager for IoT at IBM, on the firm's blog.