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Oct 31, 2022

How Content Marketing Works

Oct 31, 2022

AWS threatens IIoT partner ecosystem

This past week, AWS has kicked off their reInvent conference; this year a 3 week virtual marathon. In the first week alone, AWS has made a…

Dec 4, 2020

AWS threatens IIoT partner ecosystem

Dec 4, 2020

Five Takeaways from MS IoT Signals Report

Last week, Microsoft published the second edition of their IoT Signals report. Kudos to Microsoft for helping all the industry better…

Oct 15, 2020

Five Takeaways from MS IoT Signals Report

Oct 15, 2020

Joining HiveMQ to Work Towards MQTT Domination in IoT

This week I joined HiveMQ as their Head of Marketing. Over the last two years, I have been consulting with HiveMQ, in the capacity of…

Sep 29, 2020

Joining HiveMQ to Work Towards MQTT Domination in IoT

Sep 29, 2020

IoT Investment Trends from Economist Survey

The Economist has recently published an IoT survey that looks at the business trends in the IoT industry. This is the third year the…

Feb 20, 2020

IoT Investment Trends from Economist Survey

Feb 20, 2020

The Rise of Industry Specific Data Definitions in MQTT

MQTT has become an unqualified success as an IoT messaging protocol. However, MQTT’s publish/subscribe protocol only defines how to…

Feb 5, 2020

The Rise of Industry Specific Data Definitions in MQTT

Feb 5, 2020

Why MQTT has become the de-facto IoT standard

This week Andy Standford-Clark announced in a tweet the 20th anniversary of the first MQTT release. In those 20 years, it is clear that…

Oct 23, 2019

Why MQTT has become the de-facto IoT standard

Oct 23, 2019

IoT Protocol Popularity: According to MS Azure Devices

A challenge with IoT is the sheer number of different protocols and standards that are discussed makes it difficult to understand what…

Jun 12, 2019

IoT Protocol Popularity: According to MS Azure Devices

Jun 12, 2019

Five Key Points from Stack Overflow 2019 Survey

Each year Stack Overflow publishes a developer survey that provides some interesting insight into the broader developer community. The…

Apr 9, 2019

Apr 9, 2019

IoT on the Edge

Edge computing has become an important trend for the Internet of Things (IoT). Gartner Group identifies edge computing as one of their top…

Mar 8, 2019

IoT on the Edge

Mar 8, 2019

Open Source Needs to Remain Open

For the last 15 years, I have been deeply involved in the open source community. Not as a developer but as a marketer and community…

Mar 1, 2019

Open Source Needs to Remain Open

Mar 1, 2019

Open Source IoT Edge Projects

Edge computing is a key trend this year in the IoT industry. This past week Baidu announce a new open source project, called OpenEdge…

Jan 21, 2019

Open Source IoT Edge Projects

Jan 21, 2019

Digital Twins for Industries

Digital twin continues to be a trend gaining momentum in the IoT industry. I’ve written in the past about how some of the key IoT platform…

Dec 17, 2018

Digital Twins for Industries

Dec 17, 2018

Helping to Accelerate MQTT and HiveMQ Adoption

One of my goals when I started my consulting practice was to work more closely with startups. I have always had a lot of respect for…

Nov 29, 2018

Helping to Accelerate MQTT and HiveMQ Adoption

Nov 29, 2018

Lessons from the JVM Ecosystem Report

Last week, Java Magazine and snky released an interesting survey report, called the JVM Ecosystem Report. Zeroturnaround and JRebel have…

Oct 24, 2018

Lessons from the JVM Ecosystem Report

Oct 24, 2018

IoT Trends: Round of Announcements at IoT SWC

This week IoT Solutions World Congress took place in Barcelona. This is one of the largest IoT events during the year. Unfortunately I did…

Oct 18, 2018

Oct 18, 2018

Multi-cloud for IoT

It is clear organizations are adopting a multi-cloud strategy for their public cloud hosting providers. Industry analyst reports indicate…

Oct 2, 2018

Multi-cloud for IoT

Oct 2, 2018

Telling a Unique Story about an IoT Platform

One of my recent clients has been Contact Software, a medium size PLM vendor that is building an IoT platform. Contact’s customers build…

Sep 20, 2018

Telling a Unique Story about an IoT Platform

Sep 20, 2018

Lessons for Your Open Source Strategy: Redis Labs Case Study

Redis Labs has created some controversy with a recent change to the licenses of the Redis modules. They announced that the Redis modules…

Aug 24, 2018

Lessons for Your Open Source Strategy: Redis Labs Case Study

Aug 24, 2018

Six Months of Self-employment

It has been just over 6 months since I left the Eclipse Foundation and the start of my own marketing consulting practice. When I first left…

Aug 17, 2018

Six Months of Self-employment

Aug 17, 2018

Ian Skerrett

Ian Skerrett

I advise companies about open source communities, marketing strategies, developer marketing, IoT, and more. Former VP of Marketing@HiveMQ and VP Mktg@Eclipse

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