Cloud Computing: Are You Ready to Become an Internet of Things Hero?
January 15, 2014
Grazed from Datamation. Author: Editorial Staff.
So, you’ve survived the onslaught of social networking, cloud computing, Big Data, and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon. You fought back against the "consumerization" of IT, and are feeling pretty good about yourself. Welcome to your next nightmare – the Internet of Things (IoT)!
The new year is only a couple of weeks old, and the latest hype-cycle is already in full gear. This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) catapulted the promise of connected cars, homes, appliances and other devices into the forefront of consumers’ and the corporate business crowd’s consciousness. All of a sudden the old-world ideas of machine-to-machine (M2M) commercial use cases of tracking vehicles to improve logistics have been replaced. The new world dreams: monitoring the driving patterns of everyone to better understand their buying behavior and preferences…
Cisco Systems has estimated that 25 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by next year, and 50 billion by 2020. Its CEO, John Chambers, is salivating over the prospect of providing the networking solutions that will power this brave new world.And, nearly every other major player and a growing number of emerging providers are quickly establishing their positions in this rapidly evolving marketplace. Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com, for instance, is advocating a CRM-centric perspective with the proposition that every connected thing actually supports customers. Thus, Salesforce is promoting the "Internet of Customers" as its new mantra for 2014…
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