Cisco's CEO: The Internet of things is real (and confusing)

To hear Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins tell it, businesses are just as confused today with the latest technology trends as they were in the 1990s.Caught off guard by the Internet’s rise in the 1990’s, companies are now uncertain about how to deal with another more recent innovation: the Internet of things, in which devices like toasters and assembly lines are connected online. Corporate executives have invariably heard about the benefits — the ability to glean more data and then use it to make better business decisions — but many of them have no idea about to get started, Robbins said.