LONDON – BlackBerry announced a new platform called Spark, described as the only Enterprise of Things (EoT) platform designed and built for ultra-secure hyperconnectivity.
Unveiled at the company's Security Summit in London, the new platform will allow enterprises to scale their existing infrastructure to securely manage, connect, and use 'things' – including the applications and data they transmit – in new and existing workflows. It will also enable OEMs to bring secure IoT devices to market, while at the same time help users realize significant productivity gains while maintaining high-security and regulatory compliance.
"BlackBerry smartphones sparked a mobile-first revolution that changed the way most of the world lives and works," said BlackBerry executive chairman and CEO John Chen, in the news release. "By combining hyperconnectivity with ultra-security and privacy, BlackBerry Spark is the indispensable component of a paradigm shift to 'things-first' which holds even greater potential to reshape society. The ultimate outcome of this inevitable convergence of ubiquitous mobility and computing power will likely turn on the cybersecurity decisions we make collectively over the next few years."
BlackBerry Spark is scheduled to be rolled out by the end of the year. As an open and extensible platform, the platform ships ready to "snap-in" IoT and other solutions from partners such as AWS, Baidu, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Samsung.
