IoT will stump IT until clouds and big data come aboard, EMC says

Grazed from PCWorld. Author: Stephen Lawson.

The IT systems of the past 20 years won’t be able to handle the emerging Internet of Things, which will call for cloud computing, virtualization, efficient storage and big-data analysis, according to EMC. As more consumer devices and industrial equipment get connected through the IoT, the flood of data and the opportunities to make things run better will make the familiar client-server systems now in use obsolete, said Paul Maritz, CEO of EMC’s Pivotal division.

Maritz and the rest of EMC’s top executives used the EMC World conference in Las Vegas this week to sell their vision of a “3rd Platform” of computing driven by mobile devices, big data, public and private clouds and social networking, which they said is replacing a “2nd platform” rooted in client-server technology. The company has combined its core EMC storage business with VMware, RSA Security and the Pivotal division to offer the pieces enterprises need to make the transition…

EMC calls this model a federation and says it lets each division solve separate problems for enterprises or combine efforts with the others. IoT (Internet of Things) makes the best case for bringing all the company’s assets to bear, EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci said…

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