Despite rising spending on IoT security, consumers and businesses are right to worry about how data will be used and protected. Read More ▶ | | | Tech companies of every stripe are staking their claim to the IoT, and networking vendors like Aruba are no exception. But to hear co-founder and president Keerti Melkote tell it, his company's pitch might have a little more heat on it than others. Read More ▶ | | A chain of Ontario-based retirement homes is looking to add sensor bracelets to its Aruba Wi-Fi networks, internet of things devices that will track whether residents are starting to wander away from the facilities so staff can intercept them. Read More ▶ | | | A new LexisNexis study says insurance companies know IoT is important, but they have no idea how to collect the data or what to do with it. Read More ▶ | | | The internet of things has such a wide range of use cases and individual devices that network architects have to pay attention to a wide combination of variables for communication, power, bandwidth, reliability, cost and more. Read More ▶ | | Join the Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ | Get ongoing access to our exclusive Insider content — in-depth articles available only to Insider members. You get access not only to Network World's Insider content but to selected Insider content from Computerworld, CIO.com, InfoWorld, CSO, and other IDG publications. Sign up at no cost today! ▶ | | | |