Ep. 025 - From Blackhole Data to Connected Operations - With Arlen Nipper - Cirruslink

Arlen Nipper brings over 38 years of experience in the SCADA industry to today’s talk. Currently Arlen sits as President and CTO of Cirrus Link a company he co-founded in 2012. He was one of the early architects of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things and co-invented MQTT, a publish-subscribe network protocol that has become the dominant messaging standard in IoT. He has worked for Amoco and Koch Oil, and served as President and CTO of Arcom Control Systems and Eurotech Inc. His experience covers a broad range of technology from the design and manufacturing of embedded systems to SCADA system infrastructure implementations. Arlen holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (BSEE) from Oklahoma State University.

https://cirrus-link.com/

https://www.ignitionoilandgascollective.org/

https://inductiveautomation.com/

00:30 Introductions

01:30 The Technology Black Hole – Black Hole data (hobo data, unhoused data)

02:40 Maintenance of legacy systems that are not maintainable

03:10 Legacy equipment – what to do?

15:30 Hyper scaler Cloud – The proposition

16:45 Connecting OT Data to the Cloud – The Reality

18:00 Decoupling data – to provide a source of truth

22:00 OT in the driver seat

22:45 Getting close to the data at the edge

29:00 Inheriting a black hole data system – Ignition as the Solution

33:30 The Right Data Cloud Platform

38:00 The Hype around cloud data

40:30 How to sell it to IT