How Cloud Can Resolve Storage Problems Associated With the Internet of Things
November 24, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Lori MacVittie.
The Internet of things (IoT) is over-hyped, but considered to promise real business value according to a recent CompTIA survey, "Sizing Up the Internet of Things" which revealed 51 percent of IT executives believe IoT opportunities justify the hype with 48 percent believing there’s more hype than substance right now.
Both are correct, of course. We’re in the midst of a ramp up of IoT hype and while there have been significant business opportunity already scooped up by those in a position to do so, the hype is also high. It’s the beginning of a technology trend, after all. Rising hype is to be expected…
One of the reasons behind the belief that the hype is greater than the substance is the reality that most organizations are not well suited to take advantage of IoT and its subsequent big data generating things. It’s not just technical constraints around network and system scale (which are obstacles, too) but architectural constraints on just where we’re going put all this data that’s going to be generated…
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