Charles Cooper
CIO.COM
Another disruptive trend, another set of headaches for IT.
The
Internet of Things (IoT), spurred by the arrival of inexpensive storage
and better chipsets for connectivity, promises a future where Internet
smarts extend far beyond the familiar realm of smartphones and
computers.
Familiar devices and things never before associated
with having Internet intelligence – items like homes, railways,
buildings and bridges – are now able to monitor, communicate and respond
when their environment changes. And with more machines talking to each
other through IoT connections, companies have a trove of new information
at their disposal to analyze.
The potential is huge: The McKinsey Global Institute predicts that IoT may add between $2.7 trillion and
$6.2 trillion to the world economy annually by 2025.
The
success of this emerging IoT ecosystem will depend upon a robust cloud
infrastructure managing all these new sensors, devices and data. As more
companies seek to connect existing infrastructures to IoT-enabled
devices, they will turn to public and hybrid clouds to help manage and
scale their systems. The right cloud offering will let companies store
and process the IoT data they collect and attach rules and structure to
that information for later consumption.
However, IoT’s speed of
adoption also presents myriad new security and platform issues that IT
will need to navigate as more businesses make the transition to the
cloud.
Source: http://www.cio.com/article/2922897/cloud-computing/the-iot-revolution-promises-new-challenges-for-it.html
