Now, An Architecture that Helps Data Centers Better Manage IoT-related Complexities
The proliferation of data center sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) are now emerging as mainstream data center trends. However, both of these trends took a long time to evolve. For many years, the cost of sensors, how to store the data, how to view the data, and how to determine who had access to the data were all barriers to acceptance. Now that breakthroughs in connectivity, sensor technology and analytics have emerged, IoT and the related influx of “big data” has arrived. Annual global data center IP traffic will reach 15.3 zettabytes or 1.3 zettabytes per month by the end of 2020 (1 zettabyte = one sextillion or 10 21 bytes). Global data center IP traffic will grow by a factor of 3x over the next 5 years, a 27% annual growth rate. IoT is also expanding at a volume of 8 million new “things” being connected to the internet each day. These changes have forced many data center operators to rethink the way they manage across all layers of the IT stack. Why? Because t...