Robert Keblusek, CTO of Sentinel Technologies, a Downers Grove, Ill., solution provider and Cisco Gold partner, on the new IoT Operations Platform unveiled by Cisco. Partners believe the platform can solve many of the issues customers have when deploying Internet of Things solutions.

"Right now, I'm dealing with customers in the medical industry that have problems with the WannaCry [ransomware attack] because these connected medical devices are running very old operating systems – they have no updates, no ability to change the operating system, they can't scale … There's a lot of struggles with IoT. … How do you manage and scale these things? How do you secure them at scale? These are all questions I think Cisco's platform can answer."