Toshiba and Cisco this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of enhancing the progress of a new Smart Community by extending collaboration on new ways to utilize the Internet of Everything (IoE) to improve processes, productivity and experiences in manufacturing, transportation and city environments. The global collaboration is intended to bring together the Cisco Fog Computing network environment featuring Cisco's network-wide security solution with the Toshiba Group's endpoint management technology.
Toshiba seeks to generate new value by connecting its energy, health care, storage products and services using cloud computing, big data and analytics technologies, with the goal of creating a Human Smart Community: a safe, secure, and comfortable society. By combining cloud technologies with the IoT, M2M, and fog computing, Toshiba will apply the Human Smart Community to a wider range of devices and spread it to manufacturing systems, traffic/transportation systems, and smart cities.
Hironobu Nishikori, Corporate Senior Vice President and President and CEO of Cloud & Solutions Company, Toshiba Corporation
The importance of fog computing is expected to increase for managing many devices in the cloud. We believe a synergistic convergence of Toshiba's advanced device management technologies and Cisco's rich expertise in networking will open up ways to provide outstanding excellence in the ever-growing field of the M2M/IoT.
Wim Elfrink, Cisco EVP of industry solutions and chief globalisation officer
Our relationship with Toshiba is expected to strengthen the technology foundation for the Internet of Everything, ensuring fast, reliable and valuable outcomes for our mutual customers in both the public and private sectors. The powerful combination of Cisco's and Toshiba's information technology leadership will be one more key accelerator in the rapidly growing Internet of Everything market and its critical ecosystem.
