Cisco: Linux is the “Single and Best” Tech for IoT
July 7, 2014
Grazed from Linux.com. Author: Libby Clark.
Cisco earlier this year unveiled its plans to build smarter routers and switches to help manage the massive flows of data expected between Internet-connected devices and the data center. This re-architecting of the Internet to bring computing capabilities to the edge of the network is what the company calls “fog computing” and it could help alleviate the data center strain that Gartner analysts predict will come from 26 billion installed units in the Internet of Things by 2020.
“Tens of billions of ever-smarter edge devices create data (we call it big data now) that it is impossible to move fast enough through the network,” said Michael Enescu, CTO of Open Source Initiatives at Cisco. “We have to deal with this, otherwise it will present huge scale and security issues in the core.”…
Enescu, the former vice president of product at XenSource, and a founding member of the Java Content and J2ME projects at Sun, will further address this connection between cloud, fog computing and the Internet of Things, in his keynote at LinuxCon and CloudOpen in Chicago Aug. 20-22. In this Q&A he discusses the differences between fog and cloud computing, the role of Linux in the Internet of Things, and previews his keynote…
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