Considerations When Managing Internet of Things Services Through Edge Computing

Posted on June 7, 2017June 7, 2017 by Diversitec

As organizations become increasingly more dependent on Internet of Things (IoT) communications to drive critical systems and business processes, all other aspects of the enterprise are being touched as well and the management of IoT services becomes more complex. The rapid growth of global IoT devices is predicted to reach over 75 billion by 2025 and companies across all industry sectors are starting to go down the path of digital transformations in search of new services that will benefit both the enterprise and the customer. This is moving organizations in different directions and disrupting the traditional components of IT infrastructure in the modern data center.

Whereas cloud computing is not specifically designed to handle IoT, organizations may soon see the need for completely new infrastructures to be put into place to support IoT applications closer to data sources to ensure IoT service delivery is successful in real-time. Enterprises will need to consider edge computing to meet the challenges of managing IoT networks and services along their journey through digital transformation dependent on new innovation. Read full article here.

Internet of Things World 2017 Highlights the Rise of Edge Computing

Posted on May 23, 2017May 23, 2017 by Diversitec

Top IoT industry trends were discussed at the Internet of Things World 2017 conference last week; one being the rise of edge/fog computing as the shift in the way users interact with edge devices moves towards data consumption and production at the edge. Before the explosion of IoT devices, users mainly consumed information at the edge. Now, the growing number of edge devices creates large amounts of data and decisions can be made by machine learning techniques without user intervention. No doubt cloud computing will face some challenges as critical response times for processing data, the amount of energy needed and the affordability of sending so much data to the cloud first for processing comes into question as the interest in IoT shows no sign of slowing down.

The Internet of Things World 2017 conference covered a whole host of topics associated with IoT security, autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation in smart cites and where to start aligning IoT strategy during lively presentations and panel discussions. Industry experts and thought leaders in this space felt AI is becoming a key focus and the drivers for growth in the IoT will be the smart buildings, homes, cars and cities of the future. Read full article here.

Increasing Demands on Data Centers

Posted on May 16, 2017May 16, 2017 by Diversitec

As the future revolution in technology evolves with artificial intelligence, virtual reality and machine learning, the demand for data centers and our modern day reliance on them will skyrocket. Smart devices, smart spaces and the universal growth of connected things delivering huge amounts of information all intersecting at the data center over wireless connections creates the need for data centers to be able to scale for the future and the increased workload ahead.

New innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the development of computer systems to perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence, are being used with greater efficiency to optimize resource management and long-term planning for strategic business decisions. Additionally, AI driven data centers themselves are a necessity for any progressive business that wants to achieve an operationally efficient computing environment. In order to compete, all companies will need to become data driven in gathering large amounts of information about their customers. This only fuels the workload on the data center industry tremendously; as well as, the new types of businesses entering into the global economy to be able to interact with new technologies as they evolve. Exciting times are ahead for the data center market as futurist Steve Brown discusses at Open Compute Summit. Read full article here.