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Recent reports from McKinsey and Flexera highlight just how rapidly the world is shifting toward a cloud-first future, and the implications for industrial automation are profound. According to McKinsey’s “Riding the Hyperscaler Wave: The Investment Opportunity in Cloud Ecosystems,” the market for cloud infrastructure could reach $3.4 trillion by 2040, with public cloud consumption alone […]

Back by popular demand, the sixth edition of our ADISRA SmartView Q&A Blog has arrived. Over the past year, these technical deep dives have been well-read posts, inspired entirely by your questions. With every edition, new and thought-provoking topics pour in from developers, engineers, and integrators eager to push ADISRA SmartView to its limits. We

The convergence of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) has been at the center of industrial transformation for over two decades. Since the unveiling of Industry 4.0 in 2011, the vision of connecting enterprise systems with plant-floor operations has promised smarter factories, optimized supply chains, and reduced downtime. This conversation has expanded over the

Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. After this date, no further technical assistance, feature updates, or free security updates will be provided. Ideally, organizations should migrate to Windows 11 to reduce the risk of exposure to critical vulnerabilities. According to Statcounter GlobalStats, as of August 25, 2025, Windows 11

A major automotive vendor once told me that unplanned downtime can cost anywhere from $15,000 to $50,000 per minute, up to $3 million per hour. Numbers like that underscore the critical importance of minimizing disruptions in industrial operations. For software providers, it highlights the responsibility to deliver reliable, high-quality solutions that help customers avoid costly

Industrial automation is advancing at a rapid pace, and customers are looking for clear, practical answers about how new technologies fit into their operations. Chances are, you have asked the same questions others have: How does this specific feature in ADISRA SmartView work? How can it improve my processes? Every day, we hear these questions

Earlier this week, Linux quietly celebrated its 34th birthday, a milestone for a technology that underpins much of the modern world.  What began in 1991 as a modest Usenet post by Linus Torvalds has become one of the most influential software projects in history.  At the time, Torvalds described it as “just a hobby,” yet

By Chuck Kelley and Marcia Gadbois Over the past several weeks, we have unpacked the data landscape in industrial automation, from foundational database architectures to the ETL journey that turns raw signals into usable information, and the modern practices that keep it all manageable.  Each piece has built on the last, tracing how data evolves

By Chuck Kelley & Marcia Gadbois Continuing our journey into modern data management architectures, this week’s blog takes a closer look at five key approaches shaping how organizations handle information today: data fabric, data mesh, event-driven architecture, stream processing, and unified namespace. In our previous post, Foundation of Industrial Data:  Architectures, we noted that an

By Chuck Kelley and Marcia Gadbois In last week’s blog, we explored the foundational architectures behind data storage and the benefits of various architectures.  This week, we continue our journey from raw data to actionable insights by exploring how to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data for meaningful use, particularly in industrial automation. The global ETL

By Chuck Kelley & Marcia Gadbois Every day, approximately 402.74 million terabytes of data are generated, much of it driven by industrial automation.  What was once considered an emerging trend, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), has now become the foundation of modern manufacturing.  Also known as Industry 4.0 or smart manufacturing, IIoT refers to