Recently, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a hot topic, and it’s easy to see why. Did you know that there are more smart devices and electronic gadgets on earth than people? According to the IDC, the digital universe will reach 44 trillion gigabytes of data from a variety of “things,” such as medical implants, wearable technology, and even vending machines, by 2020. Today, according to CloudTweaks, more than 2.5 billion gigabytes of data is generated every day.
If that doesn’t make you take notice, Cisco says that IoT will reach an economic value of $14.4 trillion by 2022. To take advantage of this growth, many companies will jump on the IoT bandwagon by creating software-defined IoT widgets and the supporting management applications, and make them available around the globe. The result of this IoT explosion causes a strain on data center capacity and accessibility for many companies, requiring data center service providers to be able to support increasing data demands.