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Time to read: 3 minutes  Post by Tony Paine We live in a time where attacks on critical infrastructure and the underlying software and hardware that comprise these systems is all too common and will only increase year over year. Rest assured that HighByte is committed to putting security first in its design and implementation of its software solutions.
Our industry recognizes that a defense-in-depth strategy must be employed when building out a technology stack from various components. This not only applies to an end-user’s use of applications and equipment from various vendors, but even more so by vendors who develop solutions that pull in third-party technology or tap into interfaces and standards that allow for seamless integration with foreign sources of data and information. Time to read: 7 minutes  Posted by Aron Semle When I first joined the HighByte team, I knew two things. First, modeling industrial data is immensely powerful. After spending a decade interacting with tags and seeing firsthand how building context from tags in the Cloud is painful, I knew that modeling data at the Edge would be a game changer.
The second thing I knew is that we were going to build a lot of connectors. This is par for the course in the industrial world where a mix of legacy and new equipment is the norm. We started with the most common and generalized standards, like OPC UA, HTTP, MQTT, and SQL to cast a wide net for connectivity options inside the factory. But it was clear that as we progressed, the market would demand explicit connectors for common systems. That is why I am excited to announce new connectors in version 2.2 for OSIsoft PI System (now part of the AVEVA portfolio), InfluxDB, and Oracle Database. All three connectors support both reading and writing data, and interacting with these systems in advanced ways, without needing to read a manual. Time to read: 7 minutes  Posted by Aron Semle I love the chaos of an early market like DataOps for Manufacturing. It’s clear that things are changing, but what technologies and approaches will win out is less obvious. In these types of markets, as a solution provider, it’s equally fun to watch them mature.
One sign of a maturing market is the type of questions early customers ask about a solution. At first, the questions are different variations of “Does it work?” or “How is it different than a, b, or c?” as customers try and understand the solution and how it solves their problem. As the market matures, the questions shift focus to technical requirements like “What’s the performance with 10,000x?” or “Does it support high availability?” Here at HighByte we’re seeing more scale and reliability questions in early engagements, a sign that both the market and the product are maturing. That’s why I’m excited to announce some key features in version 2.1 that make HighByte Intelligence Hub more scalable and reliable to fit the needs of your production environment. Time to read: 5 minutes  Posted by Tony Paine Since releasing HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.0 in January 2020, our customers have been successfully deploying solutions to simplify the integration of existing operational technology (OT) and new Industry 4.0 solutions that deliver rich information to IT, data scientists, and other stakeholders. Throughout the past year, we have focused on building out a connectivity library that enables users to connect to AWS IoT SiteWise, Azure IoT Hub and Event Hubs, REST, SQL, MQTT / Sparkplug, OPC UA, and CSV files, providing the market with the interoperability needed for Digital Transformation. In addition to connectivity, HighByte Intelligence Hub introduced a no-code approach to modeling assets, systems, processes, or systems of systems that are centrally managed and automatically transformed into a usable format for any one of our connectors. This has enabled customers to scale their plant to cloud initiatives in days and weeks, rather than months and years.
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