FEATURE
IDC PROJECTS
THAT IOT DEVICES ALONE WILL GENERATE
ALMOST 80ZB OF DATA BY 2025 .
race to implement technology that will enable them to survive . We will look back on 2020 as a milestone in humanity ’ s Digital Transformation .
What this means for infrastructure
What does the CIO or CTO need to think about in order to build IT for their enterprises that can take advantage of distributed Edge Computing .
For one , this will create a deluge of data unseen in human history . Where will we store this data ? How will we move it ? How do we figure out what ’ s important ?
IDC projects that IoT devices alone will generate almost 80ZB of data by 2025 , yes Zettabytes . I believe this is only the tip of the iceberg .
Edge Computing will cause a serious rethink about how we architect our data centres . Data centres will need to be physically closer to users and support processing , and decision support applications closer to where the data is generated . Furthermore , these data centres need to be designed to accommodate huge amounts of unstructured data at high speed and will need to be built on cloud-native technologies such as containers and to support a much wider variety of application needs .
The data gravity challenges that Edge applications create mean that data must be processed at the Edge and across Edge sites – it is simply too costly and prohibitive to move data to a central location . The applications and infrastructure needed to support this must become more distributed in nature – harkening a shift from all application
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