By Doug Peeples

SGN News Editor

In our latest product roundup, the selection of products and services highlighted is as diverse as ever: from cloud services to new a EV charging system and what is said to be the world's first hybrid system-on-chip.

SSN's new cloud Services. Silver Spring Networks has expanded its suite of offerings with SilverLink cloud services, billed as "the energy industry's first insight-as-a-service solution." The point is that the operational services give utilities fast and easy access to and integration of real-time performance analytics, monitoring and alerts for their  smart grid networks and applications.

SilverLink, available by subscription, include the SilverLink Console, which provides real-time application and field network monitoring and performance data in the form of dashboards and reports. And the SilverLink Operations Center provides real-time operations data that allows customers to integrate alerts, configuration and performance information into their existing event management systems. Those services are available now with more SilverLink cloud services to come later in the year.

And more from the cloud: a cloud ecosystem hub from Infosys. Consulting and technology company Infosys has launched its Cloud Ecosystem Hub which allows businesses to create, adopt and manage cloud services throughout their ecosystem. Infosys says businesses can speed up cloud services time-to-market by up to 40%, improve productivity up to 20% and save up to 30%. As Daryl C. Plummer, group VP and chief Gartner fellow put it "As hybrid cloud ecosystems are a reality today, there is a need for enterprises to work with cloud services brokers for smartly assessing and brokering cloud services. To truly unlock the challenges of managing a fragmented IT environment, it would be critical for enterprises to embrace cloud services brokerages."

Smarter overhead electric distribution networks from GE. GE Energy Management has just released its Multilinâ„¢ Intelligent Line Monitoring System, which it describes as "an end-to-end overhead line monitoring solution with advanced analytics that provide actionable intelligence to distribution utilities for improving the reliability and efficiency of their networks. Key points of the monitoring system are, according to GE, ease and cost effectiveness of installation; accurate time-synchronized network data to allow repair crews to restore power faster, and identification of maximum network capacity that can be used on existing subtransmission and distribution networks.