Cisco launches IoT platform, partners with Microsoft Azure
思科推出物聯網平臺，并與微軟Azure攜手合作

Cisco launched an Internet of Things (IoT) platform aimed at making deployments easier and partnered with Microsoft Azure to better connect edge devices.
思科近日推出了一個物聯網（IoT）平臺，旨在讓物聯網系統部署更容易，并與Microsoft Azure合作，實現與邊緣設備更好的連接。

The networking giant outlined its new platform, dubbed the Cisco IoT Operations Platform, at the company's IoT World Forum in London.
在倫敦舉行的思科物聯網世界論壇上，這家網絡巨頭概述了這個名為“思科IoT操作平臺”的新平臺。

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.

思科物聯網和應用部門總經理Rowan Trollope在博客中概述了在開發新平臺方面所做的工作。思科IoT操作平臺包括整合了思科技術和行業合作伙伴的大規模管理連接工具。

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.

霧計算功能以及邊緣系統的數據收集工具也將被納入思科IoT操作平臺中。思科還概述了用于加強安全性的威脅檢測技術。

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操作平臺的驅動力源自一項調查，該調查發現40％的物聯網部署已過了試點階段，但業界領導者認為只有26％的企業是成功的。

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.

至于與微軟的合作伙伴關系，微軟方面表示將與思科合作，將旗下的Azure IoT套件連接到思科IoT操作平臺中，并確保二者的互操作性。