The internet of things (IoT) is named so for a reason: virtually every thing on the planet – our homes, our cars, even our own bodies – will connect to the internet, continuously sharing data regarding our daily activities. All this data has to go somewhere, of course, which is an unsettling prospect for centralized data center and network managers who are already struggling with the mounting loads coming from legacy applications. Clearly, today’s data infrastructure cannot handle a sudden exponential increase in data, which means the rush is on to deploy the next phase of enterprise IT on the network edge.
