思科推出物联网平台，并与微软Azure携手合作

Cisco launches IoT platform, partners with Microsoft Azure
思科推出物联网平台，并与微软Azure携手合作

Cisco launched an Internet of Things (IoT) platform aimed at making deployments easier and partnered with Microsoft Azure to better connect edge devices.
思科近日推出了一个物联网（IoT）平台，旨在让物联网系统部署更容易，并与Microsoft Azure合作，实现与边缘设备更好的连接。

The networking giant outlined its new platform, dubbed the Cisco IoT Operations Platform, at the company's IoT World Forum in London.
在伦敦举行的思科物联网世界论坛上，这家网络巨头概述了这个名为“思科IoT操作平台”的新平台。

Rowan Trollope, general manager of Cisco's IoT and applications unit, outlined the effort in a blog post. The Cisco IoT Operations Platform includes tools to manage connections at scale via the company's technologies and industry partners.

思科物联网和应用部门总经理Rowan Trollope在博客中概述了在开发新平台方面所做的工作。思科IoT操作平台包括整合了思科技术和行业合作伙伴的大规模管理连接工具。

Fog computing is another feature that will be included into the platform along with data collection tools from edge systems. Cisco also outlined threat detection technologies to bolster security.

雾计算功能以及边缘系统的数据收集工具也将被纳入思科IoT操作平台中。思科还概述了用于加强安全性的威胁检测技术。

What's driving Cisco's platform is a survey that found that 40 percent of IoT deployments made it past the pilot stage, but only 26 percent of them were deemed successful by business leaders.

思科IoT操作平台的驱动力源自一项调查，该调查发现40％的物联网部署已过了试点阶段，但业界领导者认为只有26％的企业是成功的。

As for the Microsoft partnership, the software giant said that it will partner with Cisco to connect its Azure IoT Suite to Cisco's IoT platform and be interoperable.

至于与微软的合作伙伴关系，微软方面表示将与思科合作，将旗下的Azure IoT套件连接到思科IoT操作平台中，并确保二者的互操作性。