Picowork’s CCC and CCOS Put IoT, Big Data within Your Company's Reach
As IT infrastructure sizes and data-sharing between connected devices continue to grow, company workflows in a variety of industries continue to become increasingly digitalized. This unprecedented spike in data volumes, which is commonly referred to as Big Data, has come to represent production efficiency, competitive business insights, brand-differentiation, and significant potential.
Businesses understand the value of Big Data and the promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0. However, few have been able to harness these things. One major obstacle is that different systems still cannot securely connect, inter-operate, and communicate. The importance of cooperation and collaboration between IT and controls engineers today remains crucial.
“Collaboration makes IoT and Industry 4.0 possible and accelerates their growth. The key to capitalizing on Big Data involves establishing better horizontal communications, between both machines and stakeholders,” stated Jun-Hsiao Lin, the vice-president and chief technology officer at Picowork.
According to Picowork, only a few businesses today are capable of developing their own application programs or hosting their own websites. The majority of businesses, as well as the general public, continue to rely on platforms or application programs from third-party companies for communication and collaboration.
“Businesses know the importance of the data, but businesses do not really own the data—the platforms or application providers do! Even if businesses can somehow obtain this data, there are still compatibility issues involving machines and/or machine modules that do not fully communicate with one another,” Lin pointed out.
The key to breaking through this bottleneck is a secure, efficient, controllable, agile, and free environment that enables collaboration between humans, things, and machines, instead of a reliance on third-party platforms.
Picowork, a Taiwanese cloud-system provider established in 2010, recently launched its collaborative cloud computer (CCC) and collaborative cloud operating system (CCOS) solutions, specifically targeting the demand for all-round collaboration between customers, channels, manufacturers, and production chains, which continues to grow along with the rise of Big Data, IoT, and Industry 4.0.
“Unlike conventional computers, CCC is set up in the cloud, and CCOS is installed therein to perform collaborative activities,” explained Benjamin Cheung, the product director at Picowork. With CCC, users are able to achieve self-managed security and also freely build a collaborative environment, which enables them to benefit from common collaborative operations with an open, secure framework in a wide range of businesses. CCC can also be used in internal-collaborative activity (office work) and management, as well as external-collaborative activity and management.
“A collaborative working environment doesn’t require an overhaul or a major investment. Rather, it can be easy and convenient, which is the key to making things happen,” said Cheung.
Based on a user’s needs, Picowork’s CCC can be set up in the data center of any Internet infrastructure provider, or in a self-built computer room and connected to the Internet, providing an operational, collaborative working environment. Inside a company, the employees can, for example, access the collaborative working environment through their personal computers or mobile phones and manage a wide variety of company resources. A cross-platform operating environment can also be set up on the Internet. Externally, users can initiate a collaborative operating environment by granting access to stakeholders, partners, or even clients, allowing all participants to share resources and collaborate. In short, CCC users can not only collaborate with other CCC users, but also non-CCC users.
In addition, while the initiator of the collaborative working environment has lead authority, other participants can still freely share content and resources. For a company, this means that all participants in this collaborative process can enjoy the tremendous benefits of pooled computing resources and virtualization. At the same time, security and reliability are well-maintained in the company’s collaborative cloud computer. This also means a better chance of capitalizing on Big Data.
“When it comes to collaboration, it can now all be collected in your cloud. This means that, eventually, Big Data will no longer be monopolized by the platform providers or the application-service providers, but, instead, will become popular in the cloud ecology of the entire society,” Lin concluded.
For more information, please visit www.picowork.com